Just wondering what you think the most moving heartbreak song is about losing someone you love/breaking up.

Obviously not like 'We Are Never Getting Back Together'

For me it has to be No Doubt - Don't Speak. It gets me everytime. Are there any more left of field examples? That aren't perhaps as famous/popular?

For me it's any of a number by Mariah. Between My All and We Belong Together. As for not that famous/popular I think Justin Timberlake's Another Song (All Over Again) is a gorgeous track from his second album.

'No Regrets' by The Walker Bros (1975) written by Tom Rush and part of an entire album about a relationship breakdown ('The Circle Game' (1968)).

http://youtu.be/7kf3Hyxl67g

Or 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' by Joy Division.

http://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No

Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAFcvIw8J4

Carole King - Its too late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDm1xD_Kwyc

The Beatles - for no one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAVrigwwTs

John Waite - Missing You

Hall & Oates - She's Gone

For me its my most favorite song from my most favorite singer James Otto named "Dam* Right".

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly

P.S. The way that the song is done to me is what makes it as good as it is. His heart and nothing else is what James sings the song with and I want to put my arms around him every time that I hear it come out his mouth!!!

I think Someone Like You by Adele is pretty moving, especially when she sang it live at the BRITs. Lyrics are painfully honest and raw.

My personal all-time favourite though is Last Kiss by Taylor Swift. So simple and beautiful, everything from the lyrics to the way she's singing to the production to me just totally "feels" like a devastating break-up.

Against All Odds - Phil Collins

It needs to be cynical...and with a touch of humour...

Happy blues...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ89xtmyqT4

I've posted this before in the many similar threads, but it still applies.

Another Day - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt5YnocRp8

Bob Dylan Standing In The Doorway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEiDBFoXFY

Nina Kinert - Heartbreak Town

http://youtu.be/whiXBCpgkxQ

What Becomes of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin

The Winner Takes it All- Abba

Country music does it best, try

Legend in my time
Blue eyes crying in the rain

And many more

Please Don't Go - K.C. and the Sunshine Band

It's against the grain for their usual output, and nowhere nears as epic as No Regrets, but still fantastic.

Agree with both of those. Last Kiss is one of my favourite Taylor songs. It's so relatable. Being young and in love, and thinking that it will last forever, and being devastated when it doesn't.

It depends on your situation I suppose. "Real" by Years & Years always gets me, as it came about at a time where that song was scarily applicable to my personal circumstances at the time and it always takes me back to that. "Wasting My Young Years" by London Grammar is an utterly heartbreaking song, too.

I think "Say You Love Me" by Jessie Ware and "Angels" by The XX would be my choices though. Always get me, those two!

Love Of My Life by Queen

Neil Diamond - Love On The Rocks

Who let in the rain. Or just an album of celine will make you drink yourself silly

Say You Love Me-Jessie Ware
You Ruin Me-The Veronicas
The Last Song I'm Wasting On You-Evanescence
Irvine-Kelly Clarkson
Maybe-Kelly Clarkson

a couple from the 60's, emotional but with dignity

Gene Pitney - im gonna be strong .... if youre ever hurt, thisll get you, fantastic lyrics that builds to the inevtiable breakdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldcZkWLOTCI

the Walker Brothers - make it easy on yourself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTS9H-l5qQ scotts wonderful voice, not as emotional as the last track... but.... class.

Dusty wasnt afraid of emotion either - i just dont know what to do with myself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPOwe-2EYA

as for the recently departed 60's icon Cilla Black, heres a little known track, a minor hit but imho one of her best - ive been wrong before - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_MjGWenQg

and to finish with a belter, with wonderfull ott production, Lorraine Ellison - stay with me baby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDBuPK0_DU

hope some of these tracks are new to some of you...

Mariah Carey - We Belong Together.
Look past the voice and the diva-image and she's pretty much the Queen of heartbreak songwriting.

I love the diva image

I'd also add Don't Forget About Us to the two Mariah songs I wrote before.