Whats your favorite song about heartache?

[b.dfzo]

Roy Orbison has a lot of great heartbreaking songs..."Crying"..."Blue Bayou"...etc.

Paul McCartney's "Here Today".

[b.dfzo]

"Sara"!  I almost forgot.  If there was ever a more personal Dylan song that induced this much heartache...

[Jason]

Anything off of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Dennis Wilson - "Moonshine"

It was you who said there won't be tommorrow
You said you love me now in another way
Oh, in another way...

[LaurieBiagini]

Dennis Wilson - "Moonshine"

It was you who said there won't be tommorrow
You said you love me now in another way
Oh, in another way...

YES!

[donald]

I'll second Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine by Ronnie Spector......Did you hear the 90's live version on her EP?   killer stuff...


And I also second EBs Crying in the Rain




.....................did anyone mention the country hit
 "If I'd Knowed You Wanted To Come, I'da  Seen That You Got To Get To Go" 

[al]

It makes no Difference - The Band, or 'Your Gonna Make Me lonesome when you go' - Dylan, or the alternate 'You're a big girl now' on Biograph.

[halleluwah]

Speaking of The Band, "Whispering Pines" is always the song that comes into my mind first when I think of heartbreak.  But "It Makes No Difference" is nearly as effective.

[Don't Back Down]

Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Why can't you see....what you're doin' to me

[Chris D.]

"Baby Bitch" -- Ween

[sugarandspice]

who loves the sun/vu

Mother/ John Lennon

[Chris D.]

who loves the sun/vu

How about "The Bed"?

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

Roller Skating Child.

...Oh....wait...you said favorite song about heartbreak.......I thought you said favorite song about the corruption of young girls into the hairy Wilson tomb.

[b.dfzo]

Buckets Of Rain!  Shameless plug ensues...http://rapidshare.de/files/11774384/IDigWorms-BucketsOfRain.mp3.html

[Aegir]

"Amy" by Bobby Darin.. not one of his popular songs but it brings me to tears every time I listen to it.

Amy, soft as the April snow
Amy, lovely as indigo
You only kissed me, paradise smiled
And the man was a child
And the wind blew so wild

Amy, here's what I'm trying to say
Love me... if only for today
Let me know April and indigo blue
And let paradise smile for me too

Amy, here's what I'm trying to say
Love me... if only for today
Let me know April and indigo blue
And let paradise smile for me too

Let me know April and indigo blue
And let paradise smile for me too

I'm getting weepy just thinking about it. That "love me.. if only for today" line.. 

[Chance]

That "love me.. if only for today" line..

Reminds me of a Springsteen line that always got to me, "Love me tonight, for I may never see you again..." Sandy is a sad song to me, even though it's about making the right move, taking a positive step and leaving behind what you've outgrown.

[cabinessence]

General romantic aching dominates in some of these:

"Still I Dream of It": Beach Boys
"Bye, Bye Love": Everly Bros.
"Leah": Roy Orbison
"Oh, Lonesome Me": Don Gibson, Neil Young
"A Good Year for the Roses": George Jones
"Julia": The Beatles
"Days": The Kinks
"Your Cheating Heart": Hank Williams

I would go on (and on), but looking at my list I notice something: all male! Are guys the only ones who shed tears in their beer??? Why am I blanking on all the women with mascara running down their faces as they sing?

I can remember lots of "I will survive" female romantic breakup songs, but the waterworks ones aren't occurring to me.

Could you list a few? As a start, here's one recollected after some thought:

"(I Wish I were a) River": Joni Mitchell (the song that really puts the blues into BLUE. Same river Patti Smith was micturating into?)

[Rocker]

Kris Kristofferso's "When I loved her"
Just read these unbeliveable, fucking great lyrics (and it's just the First verse) :

Well she didn't look as pretty as some others I have known.
And she wasn't good at conversation when we were alone.
But she had a way of making me believe that I belong,
and it felt like coming home.
When I found her.

Greatest song ever imho


Some more :

"Would you take another chance on me?" - Jerry Lee Lewis (there are so much by him, but I won't name all)

"After Loving you" - Elvis Presley

"For Ol' Times sake" - Tony Joe White / Elvis Presley

"Caroline No" - The Beach Boys

"Thoughts of you" - Dennis Wilson

"I'll never fall in love again" and "The party's over" -  Lonnie Donegan

and probably alot more which won't come to mind at this time

[jazzfascist]

who loves the sun/vu

That makes me think of "End Of The World" with Skeeter Davis, one of the great heartbreak songs, also "The Lonely Sea" with BB's.

Søren

[Bean Bag]

"A day in the life of a Tree."
If Brian had sung it, it would probably be unlistenable for me, due to its pain.  I think that's why Brian had that other dude sing it.  It was just too personal, too dark, too desparate for Brian to sing himself...he was more than likely embarrassed by it, or flat out couldn't do it, would be my guess.  Too hard to muster the pain of performing that out loud yourself in front of people you love.  It's the most gut-wrenching, realistic musical portrayal of someone who's got nothing left for this world.  The veil of the tree metaphor does little to mask the raw, human pain and desparation on that sucker.  Ouch-diddle-ouch.

Along the same lines, "It's Over Now," and "Still I Dream of It."  Wow...zing.  Those are good ones.  Let's be clear on that.  I would also like to mention "I'll Bet He's Nice" from LOVE YOU.  More fitting in the heartache or love-lost category.  That's a gem.  And such an interesting perspective for a heartarche song, don't you think?  Not the standard, "I miss you so much I could die and end up insane" angle.  That should probably get my vote.  Great track.

"Caroline, No" is great but Brian does a nice job of keeping it cool and bluesy as oppossed to leaning on the shear desparation of his more 'frazzled-years' compositions.  It's a great, great track though...complex in every way.  'where did your long hair go...'  Yeah, that's the heartache of growing up and losing all that wonderful idealism.  That's real good one.

[monkee knutz]

I heard it for the first time in years last night. I was forced to listen to FM radio as I was painting my grandmother's basement- It's A Heartache by Bonnie Tyler. Not a favorite at all, hadn't heard it and read this thread. Odd timing.

[PapaNez22]

Whatsername by Green Day

That last line of 'Forgetting you but not the time' really gets me as I've had more than a few moments like that myself.

[I. Spaceman]

How about Anyway by Genesis? Existential heartbreak.

[LaurieBiagini]

"Sea of Heartbreak" - Don Gibson

[sugarandspice]

 I dig me some  Genisis.... when Phil Collins was still the drummer.........

xoxoxoxo

Suga