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- sandersdamnit, on 10/06/2008, -6/+55First of all ***** this list. This is some hipster mother *****'s excuse at trying to seem indie or whatever. I really love NMH, but c'mon Aeroplane is about Anne Frank and the holocaust for *****'s sake. Elliott Smith is the ***** but Basement came out right after he may or may not have ***** stabbed himself in the chest over his girlfriend. Just drink a bottle of Whiskey by yourself and get the ***** over it just like the rest of us. And please, pleasssseeeeee, don't lump good music in with *****.
- lithera, on 10/06/2008, -2/+42List for wussies.. C'mon there are 2 scenario's for being dumped.
1. It was a ***** relationship anyway and you already saw it coming.
2. You never saw it coming, meaning that you're either stupid&blind or the bitch didn't deserve you anyway. Always asume the last.
In both cases all you need is a bottle of whisky, a few joints and a bar or nightclub to celebrate your new found freedom. - hnazareth16, on 10/06/2008, -1/+39This will come in handy next time I'm dumped...
Note to self: Don't confess to being dumped to the entire Digg community. - Atex55, on 10/06/2008, -0/+25When I'm getting over a breakup I just listen to Air Supply and cry till I can't cry no more. :`(
- moorehouse, on 10/06/2008, -0/+23nine inch nails - the fragile
- partyoverhaul, on 10/06/2008, -1/+22not to be cynic, but how about bob dylans blood on the tracks? those are all good albums on the list but if you looked at the albums and not what the list was for, i wouldnt have guessed it was an album breakup list
- SirBrittanicus, on 10/06/2008, -2/+21Cannibal Corpse- Kill
I think it really depends on the individual... - mrtword, on 10/06/2008, -1/+18Beck's "Sea Change" needs to be on that list as well.
- serif69, on 10/06/2008, -1/+18The only downside of admitting to the Digg community that you've broken up is our inevitable disbelief that you had a relationship to begin with.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -4/+21a great list for sure. Elliot Smith definitely comes to mind when I think of break ups.
Ritchie Tenenbaum anyone? Dugg! - eyepatch100, on 10/06/2008, -2/+18Dugg for NMH
- sadchild, on 10/06/2008, -1/+15just don't put on disintegration from the cure. you'll be hanging in your closet by the end.
"Disintegration is the best album ever!" - Kyle Broflovski - alarchy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+14If by "divorcing his wife" you mean "fighting with his record label" then yes. Trent Reznor was never married.
- slvrbullet87, on 10/06/2008, -1/+14You hit it right on the head... sitting around crying isnt the way to get over a break up, going out getting wasted with a buddy and trying to get laid is.
- R0l0, on 10/06/2008, -5/+18more like "The Indie Hipster's 8 Best Albums To Get Over a Breakup".
- davekay85, on 10/06/2008, -0/+13Cached List, without descriptions:
8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
7. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
5. Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
4. Once OST
3. Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill - NewSc2, on 10/06/2008, -2/+14No Radiohead "The Bends"? Am I really getting that old?
- TheFoshizzler, on 10/06/2008, -1/+12I don't really see getting dumped as anything to be ashamed of, sometimes it just doesn't work.
- matzy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+11Seriously, where is Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"? By far the best break-up album ever. All the songs are amazing and it is, in my opinion, the best capture of raw human emotion on an album ever. I can't imagine what they were thinking leaving that off the list.
- Rev0lver, on 10/06/2008, -3/+14Damnation by Opeth is quite good as well.
- worseforwine, on 10/06/2008, -0/+11On my ipod constantly, thats where.
- AdeleMor, on 10/06/2008, -4/+15Uh, Kevin Barnes from Of Montreal isn't gay, despite what the blog post says or how he dresses.
- serif69, on 10/06/2008, -1/+12Hipsters were over these bands before they existed.
- darkknightita, on 10/06/2008, -0/+108 Best Get-Over-A-Break-Up Albums
October 5, 2008 by George Burke
The post break-up period can be terrible. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the eight best musical albums to listen to while you put your ex behind you.
You feel like crap, you�re newly single, or have been alone for so long that you start thinking of all the mistakes you�ve made in your life. It�s a Friday night (the weekend!) and you have no plans, don�t have the will to try making them. That bottle of bourbon on your shelf wants to be your best friend, if you just give it the chance. So sit down on your couch with a whiskey on the rocks. Something essential is missing from your pity party. Oh, that�s right, music! You�re able to tap into your emotions more freely when there�s a soundtrack to your sadness. But what should you put on? Coming from an indie-rock prick who faces this dilemma all too often, here are some suggestions:
8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Lead singer Kevin Barnes wrote this album while confronting his own depression and sexuality, and dealing with a divorce from his wife (they have a daughter). Of Montreal crafts extremely complex sounds and transitions, and at its best the band is excellent at condensing them into a psychedelic medley. The music fits like clockwork with Barnes’ lyrics about mood swings (”Come on mood shift shift back to good again / Come on be a friend”) impossibly unattainable love (”Thought that if I sank the Seine I might find you”) and in the album’s grand 12-minute opus “The Past is a Grotesque Animal,” trying to make sense of life at present (”At least I author my own disaster”). The album has line after great line about the darker side of love.
7. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
This album is the best of The Arcade Fire’s three releases to get sad-drunk to because of its sweeping metaphors and epic imagery. The sound takes on varying degrees of church atmosphere, the most poignant of which is the finale, “My Body is a Cage,” in which an organ blasts up after about two minutes. If you can maintain consciousness till track 11, you will be bawling like an infant from this song. The album lifts the listener up and down through many different moods before finally settling on the idea of imprisonment, trapped by your physical self from being with the one you love.
6. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
The lyrics evoke death and equivalent alternatives. The progressions of chords and drumbeats often feel like waves crashing on your ears. From straightforward songs of death (”At every occasion I’ll be ready for the funeral”) to ones of helplessness or unwillingness to change a situation (”I know evil people who say things they don’t know / Oh why do I even care / It’s nothing now, oh”), the music brings with it a sense of dread, foreboding. “St. Augustine,” the final track, has a cappella voices chanting about the glass ceiling (”I know you tried I know you’re cursed / I know your best was still your worst / when Hollywood was calling out your name”). An excellent collection of crestfallen hopes and dreams.
5. Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Here is an album that potently captures the inevitability of one man’s sorrow. Antony’s voice vibrates and throbs through ten laser-point intimate songs about struggles arising from the singer’s homosexuality (My Lady Story), inescapable depression (Hope There’s Someone, What Can I Do), relationships and heartbreak (Fistful of Love). The sound is honest and touching, and when you are downcast, hearing a kindred spirit can be intensely validating.
4. Once OST
The movie musical “Once” has many terrific scenes involving the spontaneous creation of songs. If you have never seen the film, don’t put the soundtrack on; it will have little or no impact, since the music alone tends to feel over dramatic, even clich�. If you have seen it, the music will bring you back. “The Hill” to the scene where �Guy’ stares barely blinking at �Girl’ while she plays the recording studio piano; “When Your Mind’s Made Up” to the intensity on �Guy’s’ face when the band finally lays the song down; “Falling Slowly” to the piano store, when the two first play together. The film is sometimes too hard to watch, which is why the soundtrack makes for an effective drunken nostalgia trip.
3. Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Sam Beam’s 6-song EP stays to the topic of the album’s title. Beam’s folksy and gentle style with instruments nicely complements the lyrical themes of beautiful women admired by a man. They are terrifying to him (”Jezebel” is his perfect partner or would be, but she has gone away), courageous (”Gray Stables,” the woman holds her head high although she has suffered much in life) and receptive (”My Lady’s House:” “Thank god you see me the way you do / Strange as you are to me”). This is a brief, emotional album that recalls the many different approaches men take towards the fairer sex.
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Another all-time great, which fits on lists of many things. Jeff Mangum wrote these songs about his deceased wife and the painful minutiae of their love. He also placed numerous allusions about Anne Frank in his songs. As suggested by many, the album deserves to be listened to in its 39.8″ entirety. Mangum, whose voice is miles away from Antony’s, belts out the lyrics in his nasal, is-he-trying-too-hard yell, and the listener can feel the wretchedness and heartache through the speakers. For poetic creativity in dealing with hard feelings, there is none better. The more expansive your imagination, the more forcefully Aeroplane will affect you.
1. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
Committing suicide as he was beginning to be recognized (mostly due to his Oscar-nominated “Miss Misery” in Good Will Hunting), Elliott Smith was a shy, melancholy musician who made intimate, lonely music. Basement was Smith’s first posthumous release. Smith, always possessive of his own sound, loops his eggshell-fragile voice in harmonies with itself and over instruments he played and recorded. It makes for an intensely personal journey into the mind of a dead man, looking at the world the way he saw it. “Twilight” is my personal favorite, as he sees the chance of something better and cannot take it; he is trapped by his own circumstances. “Haven’t laughed this hard in a long time / Better stop now before I start crying” evokes the depressive tendency to shrink away from feeling anything too warm and sincere, afraid the feeling will go away and hurt worse. An ideal album for turning on the tear ducts.
Put on the vinyl, sit back, and let it all out! - LloydBentsen, on 10/06/2008, -0/+9Will you please make a list of the 8 best whiskeys to get over a breakup? I don't know if I am doing right by my Jameson and Maker's Mark.
- solittledeserve, on 10/06/2008, -0/+9Maybe if it were 2004...hipsters are over all these bands by now.
- m1zl3d, on 10/06/2008, -1/+10Yeah this is definitely a good list. I absolutely love the new Arcade Fire CD.
- alexandrak, on 10/06/2008, -1/+10where's 69 love songs?
- jerrycan, on 10/06/2008, -2/+10dug for Neutral Milk Hotel.
- chix0r, on 10/06/2008, -1/+9I don't know Elliott isn't very good for a breakup. After a breakup I want to listen to something upbeat and happy. Most of Elliott's songs would send me into an even deeper depression! That being said, I love Elliott Smith, and his music is amazing. :)
- FearFactory, on 10/06/2008, -1/+9Type O Negative - Slow Deep and Hard
- Trots, on 10/06/2008, -0/+7Site is down. Copy/paste or mirror?
- SeanRockCity, on 10/06/2008, -0/+7Oh you haven't heard? I swear that it was pretty common knowledge
- johnn11238, on 10/06/2008, -0/+7Buried for not including NIN "Pretty Hate Machine"
- Abomonog, on 10/06/2008, -1/+7I used to love her,
but i had to kill her
I used to love her,
but i had to kill her
I had to put her, six feet under
and I can still hear her complain
I used to love her, (whoa yeah)
but I had to kill her
I used to love her, (oooo yeah)
but I had to kill her
I knew I'd miss her,
So I had to keep her
She's buried right in my backyard
(whoa yeah)
(whoa yeah)
(whoo-oo yeah)
I used to love her,
but I had to kill her
I used to love her, (whoa yeah)
but i had to kill her
She bitched so much,
she drove me nuts
And now we're happier this way, alright
(whoa yeah)
(whoa)
(whoo-oo yeah)
I used to love her,
but I had to kill her
I used to love her(ooooh yeah)
but I had to kill her
She bitched so much,
she drove me nuts
and I can still hear her complain yeah-eeeah - theokandroid, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6Dugg for Of Montreal. thats gotten me through some tough times.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6This site is down.
Did The Good Life's "Album Of The Year" make it on there? That's probably the ultimate break up album. - threemagic, on 10/06/2008, -2/+8what about this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDVkpqWGMQQ&feature ... - dasbeef, on 10/06/2008, -2/+8I'd like to add any album by The Descendents to that list.
- JohnnyMarr, on 10/06/2008, -1/+7I'd go with "The Queen is Dead" by the Smiths.
- ApexGT, on 10/06/2008, -3/+9Am I the only one here who doesn't recognize a single artist on that list? I'm not saying they're bad or that the list isn't good...just that I have no idea who these people are.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6They're some of the most mainstream indie bands out there.
- slochewie, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6wow i must be old. I've never heard of any of the Artists on that list. I don't need 8 abums anyways. I just need NIN Pretty Hate Machine
- gambl0r, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6While I love 6/8 albums on the list (not into Iron and Wine, and never heard the Once OST), I don't know how these are being considered good albums to listen to to cheer you up after a breakup.
Elliot Smith?! Oh I see, the list was '8 Best Albums to Get over a Breakup By Stabbing Yourself in the Heart with a Steak Knife'
Also, Jeff Mangum writing ITAOTS about his 'deceased wife'?! The album is in some ways connected to the life/death of Anne Frank but I'm PRETTY DAMN SURE Jeff wasn't married to her ;) - teethandeyes, on 10/06/2008, -1/+7WEAK!
When I am feeling low following a break-up, the last thing I want to listen to is a bunch of depressing music.
I like to rock out to Slayer, N.W.A., blaxploitation soundtracks, and other upbeat/agressive sounds. - therodersabides, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6Somewhat Damaged, the albums opening track is definitely my top breakup song.
- TheBeerGuy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6the bird is indeed equal to or greater than the word
- burstaneurysm, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6Or until you run out of love.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6"Prowler in the Yard" by Pig Destroyer.
- mojoel, on 10/06/2008, -0/+5"I know you're ***** someone else" - Peter Steele
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