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Give me songs, you musically inclined people, you
DarkAvenger:
Angry/Bitter: Shellac's "Prayer to God", Frank Turner's "Worse Things Happen at Sea" (the demo on his First Three Years album is particularly biting), and then a lot of Jawbreaker, particularly 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.
Sad: Nina Nastasia's Run to Ruin or almost anything Arab Strap.
General Excellence: The Mountain Goats Tallahassee, for a reference, just listen to "No Children".
Other suggestions: Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy, Silkworm's Developer, and the entirety of the Silver Jews discography (once more, not breakup specific but brilliant enough to not matter because enough of it can bring you out of anything)
CompSarge:
Grenade by Bruno Mars is a really good breakup song. It might be a little too "you dun me wrong" for your tastes, though.
Anything by The Leo Project would be good, too. I'd recommend their album Every Song Reminds Me.
JimmyJazz:
Elvis Costello is always the answer to this question
Lummer:
Righteously angry you say? I'm on it!
Martyrdöd - "Din Aura Av Sorg"
Basically the entire "In Extremis" album is a whirlwind of emotion. Despair, sadness, grief on one side, white-knuckle fury, desperation and chaos on the other. To top it all, there's a tiny dash of "hopeful in the face of adversity" to it. Nevermind if you don't understand Swedish, just fucking feel it.
Nasum - "Shadows"
More crusty Swedish goodness. The lyric "But I'll be here when you are gone, I'll make it through. Through the Storm" says it all really..
squawk:
--- Quote from: CompSarge on 28 Dec 2010, 01:23 ---Bruno Mars
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i hate to be that person but like
why
anyway, seconding the okkervil river, but be careful with that. and also seconding mt. goats. when you're hurting though, sometimes it helps to just find something so undeniably beautiful that it gives you a different reason to cry. for me that was the congress EP by bottomless pit. that did wonders.
oh yes the elvis costello is good too
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