I Choo Choo Choose You!

"Look, check it out, Lisa! You can tell the exact moment when his heart rips in half!" - Bart

Spanning four and a half decades (1963-2009) and nine genres, here's my bitterness playlist. I originally had to cut this playlist down from 60+ songs. Not all of these songs are bitter; some are classics that will rip your heart out like poor Ralphy Wiggum up above. Love songs? Puuulleeeeaase. There's a lot of heartache in music, which is why we love it.

Playlist
‎1. 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
2. Husker Du - Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely
3. Lipstick Killers - Hindu Gods of Love
4. Two Dollar Pistols - You Ruined Everything.mp3
Buy: You Ruined Everything (2002)
5. Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces
6. The Everly Brothers - When Will I Be Loved?
7. Old 97's - Wish the Worst
8. The Fox Hunt - Lower Than I Should Be
9. The Byrds - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
10. The Gourds - Promenade.mp3
Buy: Noble Creatures (2007)
11. The Paper Hearts - This Time
12. Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
13. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
14. Drive-By Truckers - Women Without Whiskey
15. Lucero - Nights Like These
16. George Jones - You're Still On My Mind
17. Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
18. The Everly Brothers - Love Hurts
19. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Bitch, I Love You
20. Slaid Cleves - Dreams
21. Frank Turner - Heartless Bastard Motherfucker
22. Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
23. Otis Redding - I've Got Dreams to Remember


BONUS! "I Never Liked St. Valentine"
Video and song by Reckless Kelly's Willy and Cody Braun. This song was co-written by Willy Braun and Todd Snider. Good stuff.

The Music vs. The Misery

What came first - the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.
- Nick Hornby

Buy: High Fidelity: A Novel (1995)
The book takes place in London, England, and follows the life of Rob Fleming.
Buy: High Fidelity DVD (2000)
The movie takes place in Chicago, USA, and follows the life of Rob Gordon.
They are both great, but, an as American who once lived in Chicago and who has had a crush on John Cusack since Say Anything (1989), I like the movie better.

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.mp3
Buy: Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)

Crazy Horse - I Don't Want To Talk About It.mp3
Buy: Crazy Horse (1971, reissued 1994)

Nazareth - Love Hurts.mp3
Buy: Hair of the Dog (1975, reissued 2008)

Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.mp3
Buy: Trafalgar (1971, CD out of print, buy MP3s only)

Colin Hay - I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You.mp3
Buy: Transcendental Highway (1999)

Two Dollar Pistols - You Ruined Everything.mp3
Buy: You Ruined Everything (2002)