Music to End an A by....

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Registered: 09-02-2004
Music to End an A by....
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 12:50pm
I have been completely amused by how music can be great company when you're feeling so alone during fresh break-up/NC. Was cracking up yesterday remembering how, when you're first in love it seems like every song on the radio was about falling in love. Now I feel like every song I hear is about staying strong, independent, and not breaking NC (with permitable doses of self-pity songs thrown in here and there.) Are you all with me on this?

So here's my question: If you were going to compile music for a CD/tape to blare in the evengings while going through the drama/trauma of "ending an A" what songs would you include?

I'd add the following but would love to hear what you all would include!

Stay Gone, Jimmy Wayne

Fallen, Sarah Mclaughlan

No More Drama, Mary J. Blige

I Never Loved a Man, Aretha Franklin

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Registered: 05-02-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:10pm
Hey Boom....I've actually done this before and it DOES help. (Guess you married gals will have to wear headphones ;) I'd like to add to your list:

Yours:

Stay Gone, Jimmy Wayne

Fallen, Sarah Mclaughlan

No More Drama, Mary J. Blige

I Never Loved a Man, Aretha Franklin

Mine:

I don't care anymore/Genesis

I will survive/gloria Gaynor

You give love a bad name/Bon Jovi

Stronger/Britney Spears

 

 

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Registered: 09-16-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 3:57pm
I listen to Cher/Strong Enough

Great song when your feeling low.

Take Care

Lady Bug

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Registered: 09-10-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 7:00pm
How 'bout Stupid by Sarah MacLachlin?
Grace
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 9:06pm
Goodbye to you-- Patti Smythe

I will Survive--Cake

Get Over Yourself---SheDaisy

Dumb Girls--Lucy Woodward

Lots of Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morrisette
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Registered: 05-30-2003
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 11:20pm
I would have to say anything by Alanis Morrisette, just saw her in concert last weekend, hits home, all of it.


Forever Blue by Chris Issak (but really anything by him)

What am I to you by Norah Jones

I'm Jealous by Shania Twain

I have loved you by Jessica Simpson (I listen to her entire In this Skin CD)

Just a few of my selections

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 12:13am
My choices:

I hate myself for loving you/Joan Jett

White Flag/Dido

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Registered: 06-28-2004
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 7:00am

Ohh...great post!


I agree with the girls who mentioned Alanis...


ESPECIALLY "Hands Clean" by Alanis-that one is seriously caustic


This one's a little more heartbreaking, but cathartic...


"Stay or Leave" by Dave Matthews


Love, Lily PG with #1 EDD 11/23 baby
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Tue, 09-28-2004 - 10:23am
Great songs to add to my list! Thanks to everyone for replying. Had to share one funny thing: someone added White Flag by Dido to the list. Would you believe my MM gave me that d*!%m CD when I last heard from him; he wanted me to listen to that song?! I gave it to a friend just to get it out of the house! Completely messed me up for a month!

For those of you who don't know the words, it's basically about always loving someone even if the relationship is over. Could have strangled him!
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Registered: 03-16-2004
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 10:47pm
For a kind of "fun" song about an end of an A -- "Thanks, That Was Fun" by barenaked ladies. :)

I would also add, "I Don't Care Anymore" by Phil Collins.

And from my 8-year-old's collection, "So Yesterday" by Hillary Duff.




Edited 9/28/2004 10:55 pm ET ET by maybekatie

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Registered: 05-07-2004
Wed, 09-29-2004 - 8:36am
boomerangs,

This one did it for me!!

(Turn the volume up really loud)

LINKIN PARK - BREAKING THE HABIT

(some excerpts)

I don't want to be the one

The battle's always choosed

Cause inside I realize that I'm the one confused

I'll paint it on the walls

Cause I'm the one at fault

I'll never fight again

And this is how it ends

But now I have some clarity

To show you what I mean

I don't know how I got this way …



So i'm breaking the habit

I'm breaking the habit tonight