DS Forums

 
 

Ultimate Heartbreak/Break up song


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 17-08-2015, 21:56
Edward Skylover
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,598

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?
Edward Skylover is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 17-08-2015, 22:09
Hollie_Louise
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 31,657
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.
Hollie_Louise is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-08-2015, 22:14
mgvsmith
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Belfast
Posts: 7,287
'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
mgvsmith is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 17-08-2015, 22:17
swingaleg
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 76,847
Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAFcvIw8J4
swingaleg is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-08-2015, 22:25
STeely
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: West London
Posts: 287
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
STeely is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 17-08-2015, 22:32
djfunnyman
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 4,433
John Waite - Missing You

Hall & Oates - She's Gone
djfunnyman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 05:23
SweetHeartHolly
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 824
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!!!
SweetHeartHolly is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 10:28
Carly_Thompson
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 2,288
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.
Carly_Thompson is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 10:34
wampa1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 2,957
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
wampa1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 11:12
RikScot
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,784
It needs to be cynical...and with a touch of humour...

Happy blues...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ89xtmyqT4
RikScot is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 11:33
barbeler
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 11,705
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
barbeler is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 15:06
jackol
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 7,436
Bob Dylan Standing In The Doorway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEiDBFoXFY
jackol is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 19:49
CAMERA OBSCURA
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 6,693
Nina Kinert - Heartbreak Town

http://youtu.be/whiXBCpgkxQ
CAMERA OBSCURA is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 20:30
blue screen
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 629
What Becomes of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin

The Winner Takes it All- Abba
blue screen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2015, 20:45
TeeGee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Dark Satanic Mills
Posts: 4,821
Country music does it best, try

Legend in my time
Blue eyes crying in the rain

And many more
TeeGee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 09:00
nathanbrazil
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: AccountKiller
Posts: 8,749
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.
nathanbrazil is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 09:18
shelleyj89
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Kent
Posts: 16,077
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.
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.
shelleyj89 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 09:23
qwerty_1234
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 930
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!
qwerty_1234 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 13:13
Kay_Price
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 398
Love Of My Life by Queen
Kay_Price is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 14:54
Asarualim
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,572
Neil Diamond - Love On The Rocks
Asarualim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 16:11
marc822
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 2,985
Who let in the rain. Or just an album of celine will make you drink yourself silly
marc822 is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 16:25
Mark-Anthony
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 572
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
Mark-Anthony is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2015, 17:23
mushymanrob
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: derby
Posts: 14,755
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...
mushymanrob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-08-2015, 22:25
Lewnaticc
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,879
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together.
Look past the voice and the diva-image and she's pretty much the Queen of heartbreak songwriting.
Lewnaticc is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-08-2015, 22:31
Hollie_Louise
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 31,657
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.
Hollie_Louise is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 14:36.