FIRST HEARTBREAK SONG

[alandhopewell]

     What song is inextricably connected to the first time someone stomped on your ticker?

     Here's mine; I was sixteen, and I'd been dumped for the first time the same week I heard this for the first time....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooeMrCws-A
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      As you can imagine, this wrecked me but good.

[Flick James]

I am a huge Elvis Costello fan. However, I cannot listen to "I Want You" from Blood and Chocolate because it haunts me in the darkest of ways. The subject matter relates a little too closely to a relationship that contributed to years of trust issues (that I eventually got over), and also it was an album I practically wore the grooves out of during the time of said relationship. As a result, I just cannot listen to it. I have the album on my iPod, and I'll listen to every song on it but that one.

[ChaosTheory]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYV9nASs8Q&ob=av2n
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high school....

[The Burgomaster]

Possibly EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by The Police.  It was really popular when I was with my first long-term girlfriend.  We were together for 3 1/2 years and were engaged for awhile.  I think of her when I hear it.  But I'm SO glad we didn't get married.  She ended up marrying another guy less than a year after we broke up.  They had a kid and then got divorced within just a few years.  I'm so glad that wasn't me.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

The Smiths' UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY (with a scotch chaser in a dorm room on the 12th floor at the Universioty of Wyoming, incidently the highest building in the state at the time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VjbuM4i--A
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I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
And : "May the lines sag, may the lines sag heavy and deep tonight"


I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)


Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I said "No"
And then I shot myself
So, drink, drink, drink
And be ill tonight


From the one you left behind
From the one you left behind

-Ed

[Jim H]

Jonathan Coulton songs in general, as my ex put them on my phone towards the end of our relationship. 

Thankfully, it's only ones he sings, not the songs in general.  So I've still got Still Alive. 

[Flick James]

Possibly EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by The Police.  It was really popular when I was with my first long-term girlfriend.  We were together for 3 1/2 years and were engaged for awhile.  I think of her when I hear it.  But I'm SO glad we didn't get married.  She ended up marrying another guy less than a year after we broke up.  They had a kid and then got divorced within just a few years.  I'm so glad that wasn't me.

It's a good song, but I can't hear the lyrics without thinking it must have been written by a stalker. 

[tracy]

"Hopelessly Devoted" by Olivia Newton John. I was as the song says and the guy turned out to be gay....talk about hopeless!

[alandhopewell]

Possibly EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by The Police.  It was really popular when I was with my first long-term girlfriend.  We were together for 3 1/2 years and were engaged for awhile.  I think of her when I hear it.  But I'm SO glad we didn't get married.  She ended up marrying another guy less than a year after we broke up.  They had a kid and then got divorced within just a few years.  I'm so glad that wasn't me.

It's a good song, but I can't hear the lyrics without thinking it must have been written by a stalker. 

     According to Sting himself, that's what the song is about.

[Hammock Rider]

I have the lamest heartbreak song ever: Billy Joel's Innocent Man.

[JaseSF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_8_LpLqKYA
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[HappyGilmore]

"Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM&NR=1&feature=endscreen
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High School sucks.  I still have trust issues because of this broad that I was on-off with for about six years or so.

[Flick James]

My first hardcore teenage love, the first I ever fell hard for, was in 1986-87. I was so into this girl. She had a big Tom Cruise circa Top Gun and Risky Business crush, which meant she was also into Berlin's Take My Breath Away. I hated the song, but I was also bats**t in love so I tolerated it. When we broke up I absolutely couldn't listen to the song. Luckily the song was off the charts by that time so I didn't have to. However, anytime I hear the song now I am reminded of long Lloyd Dobbler-esque drives in my '73 Mercury (my first car that I bought for $800 in 1986), filled with melancholy.

[indianasmith]

When I was a sophomore in high school, my childhood sweetheart broke up with me.
That was when Ronnie Milsap's COWBOYS AND CLOWNS was a huge hit, and everytime it played I felt like
someone was punching me in the gut in slow motion.


On a happier note, we got back together at the end of my junior year and have now been married for 27 years!

[tracy]

When I was a sophomore in high school, my childhood sweetheart broke up with me.
That was when Ronnie Milsap's COWBOYS AND CLOWNS was a huge hit, and everytime it played I felt like
someone was punching me in the gut in slow motion.


On a happier note, we got back together at the end of my junior year and have now been married for 27 years!

I'm very happy for you,indy!