Idea for a playlist/mix CD

[jennythereader]

What do you guys think about this playlist?

Good Songs About Bad Relationships:

1) "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" by the Shirelles (If you have this many doubts, why are you sleeping with him!?)

2) "Every Breath You Take" by the Police (OMG, stalker!)

3) "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (That guy is a manipulative so-and-so.)

4) "Run For Your Life" by the Beatles, on Rubber Soul (He's threatening her life if he catches her with another man!? Get out now!)

These are just the ones that came up on my iPod today. Obviously, I'd need more to actually make a CD. Hit me with your best ideas. Edit: Explain (briefly) why your suggestions fit the theme.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

"Norwegian Wood."

[jarien.livejournal.com]

Beth. I forget who does that one, especially since it was done recently as a cover. "Sorry Beth, I know that I'm neglecting you, suck it up and deal."

Brick, by Ben Folds Five. Relationship torn apart by an unplanned pregnancy

Freshmen, by Verve Pipe. "Oops, not my fault!"

Gives You Hell, All American Rejects "I hope you suffer now that we're broken up!"

My top 4 "relationships are seriously screwed up" songs.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey. You know I love you, but lame lame lame :)

Just off the top of my head, I'd say Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
Steely Dan's entire ouevre, but especially My Old School and Deacon Blues
Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love
The entire Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach album
Jimmy Buffett, Coast of Marseilles
More Dylan, What Was It You Wanted? Also covered by Willie Nelson
And speaking of Willie Nelson, a little Whiskey River fits.
The Johnny Cash version of Hurt
Any version of Hallelujah by L Cohen, although I'm partial to the Rufus Wainwright interpretation
Guy Clark, Dublin Blues
Caetano Veloso, Eu te amo
and the piece de resistance, Harry Nilsson's unforgettable version of "fuck you" :)

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

"You Oughta Know", Alanis Morissette :-)

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

"More Fool Me" -- Genesis. Phil Collins' debut as a lead singer (tho' Peter was still the band's lead)

"All for Leyna" -- Billy Joel

[nounsandverbs]

I agree that many, many Steely Dan songs would go well. Just on one album, we've got "Gaslighting Abbie" (taking nude pictures of underage girl), "Janie Runaway" (pedophilia), and "Cousin Dupree" (incest).

Half of John's Beatles output would also work. Besides "Run for Your Life," we've got "You Can't Do That," which is catchy as hell even though it's about an abusive relationship.

Half of Aimee Mann's work is a go, too. "Driving Sideways" is a great song about a bad relationship seen from the outside. "Susan" is a bad relationship from the inside, as told to a friend. "Sugarcoated" -- great song about an ex-lover badmouthing an ex-lover in public. And so on.

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

"Who Knew" -- Pink
"Please Don't Leave Me" -- Pink
"Just Like a Pill" -- Pink

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

"Never There" by Cake (Neglect)
"Foundations" - Kate Nash (Picking fights with each other)
"Push" - Matchbox 20 (Abuse.)
"Possession" - Sarah McLachlan (Another stalker song)

[purpura.livejournal.com]

The Old Apartment - Barenaked Ladies
(Actually surprised Matt didn't put this one up)

[sunatrya.livejournal.com]

The Police, Every little thing she does is magic.

A guy who is too scared to tell the woman he loves her.

[siderea]

"Troy" by Sinead O'Connor.[WARNING: Big dynamic range. Starts much quieter than it later gets. Abruptly and erratically.]
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonny Tyler.
"White Flag" by Dido.
Though, technically, we don't know from any of those songs' narrators that there is actually a relationship there, as opposed to their own one-sided obsessions.

[siderea]

Probably everything Meatloaf ever recorded, but let's start with the immortal Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.
"Angel from Montgomery", covered by everybody and his sister. Probably much of the entire Country and Western ouevre.
Where have all the cowboys gone by Paula Cole.

[xoder.livejournal.com]

The Cardigans - Lovefool (obsessive)
Almost the entirety of Stabbing Westward's output.
Same with NiN, and my favorite is "Perfect Drug" (obsession, again), but "Closer" is a classic (obsession, especially regarding sex).

I seem to best know obsessive bad relationship songs. I'm not sure why? Obsession leads to rhythm, perhaps?

[hotspurre.livejournal.com]

A few things leap to mind.

I'll get obscure, and pick two songs by the Scottish Band "Marillion," "Punch and Judy" (about a decaying marriage and possibly abuse,) and "Jigsaw" (about the end of a relationship, one of my favorite songs by them.)

Though its one of the mellowest breakup songs ever, "Don't Think Twice" by Bob Dylan. I love Eddie from Ohio's cover of it.

Nick Cave and PJ Harvey's "Henry Lee" (off of "Muder Ballads," so you can probably guess why,)

[hotspurre.livejournal.com]

Oh! Another one! "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. Alternatively sweet and nasty, its a couples Christmas in NYC. :)

(her: "you're a bum, you're a punk" he: "You're an old slut on junk / lying there almost dead on that drip of a bed" her: "you scumbag you maggot, / you cheap lousy faggot, / "Happy Christmas!" my arse, / I pray G-d its our last!")