― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 May 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
By objective, you mean analytical rather than weepy or accusatory?
Yes, I think so.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 14 May 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Knowing Me Knowing You is kind of the classic of this category, no?
― Ari (whenuweremine), Monday, 14 May 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Reels - I Don't Love You Anymore?
Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like, lol
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 14 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Tom Rush and Ani diFranco songs are what I'm looking for, thanks.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 14 May 2012 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
ABBA too.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hope you're not in the midst of an objective breakup.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 May 2012 11:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"She's Leaving", OMD
― Euler, Monday, 14 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
"One Less Set of Footsteps", Jim Croce
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 May 2012 13:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wire--I Should Have Known Better
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 14 May 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Eagles-Already Gone
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tame Impala's "It Is Not Meant To Be", kinda
― caulk the wagon and float it, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not in the midst, no, which makes it easier to start being objective.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
This pretty much owns the thread
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oops didn't remember the "Better call the calling off off" part. It's still a breakup song though, even if they decide to get back together ;-)
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Yardbirds - Knowing That I'm Losing You
and yes, this predates (and walks all over) the similar Led Zep tune, and is a stellar OBS.
also:Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"Bright Eyes feat. Emmylou Harris - "Landlocked Blues"Chicago (!) - "Call On Me"Feist - Let It DieRilo Kiley - "More Adventurous" ("with every broken heart we should become more adventurous"), and, well, "Breakin' Up"The Byrds - "The World Turns All Around Her"
― Lee626, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh and I know nobody here likes this band, but this is a great song:
I once knew a girl in the years of my youthwith eyes like the summer, all beauty and truthbut in the morning I fled, left a note and it read"someday you will be loved"
I cannot pretend that I felt any regretbecause each broken heart will eventually mendand as the blood runs red down the needle and threadsomeday you will be loved
you'll be loved, you'll be loved, like you never have knownand the memories of me will seem more like bad dreamsjust a series of blurs like I never occurredsomeday you will be loved
you may feel alone when you're falling asleepand every time tears roll down your cheekbut I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meetand someday you will be loved
― Lee626, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is an obvious but good one.
I actually didn't know that unreleased Yardbirds tune! Listening now, it just sounds like a demo for "Tangerine" to me. Maybe I need to give it some more listens.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
That was from their very last recording session, one of five new songs that may have been intended for a new album that never got made before the band broke up. The other four new songs were included on Cumular Limit released about 10 years ago, and "Knowing That I'm Losing You" was slated for inclusion too but apparently Jimmy Page threatened legal action and it was removed just before it was issued, but not before a few early demo copies slipped out. Keith Relf wrote the lyrics, including the "measuring a summer's day" verse that was the only lyric retained for "Tangerine", but wasn't given a songwriting credit. (Cumular Limit also includes a live take of "Dazed and Confused" which Page probably didn't want released either, but since the song was (properly) credited to Jake Holmes he couldn't wield any legal power to get that one removed).
― Lee626, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Keep 'em comin'!
I could use a playlist full of these right about now
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 09:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Billy Currington and Death Cab songs are not exactly what I'm looking for. Tbh, they seem more callous than objective/analytical to me. "Love Will Tear Us Apart", on the other hand, is completely OTM.
(Thanks for the Yardbirds info btw! I've heard a Yardbirds version of "Dazed and Confused". Maybe it's the one you're referring to.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Feist is harsh but very apt.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
how is the billy currington song even remotely callous
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, you're right. "Callous" was the wrong word. I'll try to sort out what I was thinking.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah....
"Dazed and Confused", here still with the original lyrics intact, a breakup song but not an objective breakup song.
and the original version of the song, that so blew Page & Co. away when he opened a New York show for the Yardbirds in early 1967 that they bought this album the next day so they could learn to play it themselves:
"Love Will Tear Us Apart", on the other hand, is completely OTM
yeah that was the second song I thought of here, after "We Just Disagree" whose equanimity is unsurpassed amongst breakup songs.
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
or the Death Cab song? "Callous" means "insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic"; I hear the opposite of all of those in the lyrics
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
oops, that's why it's good to read the entire thread before posting....
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
So those songs are objective breakup songs and completely right for the thread, then. I guess that in my head, I was thinking of songs that are more analytical about the relationship and breakup than those ones seem to be to me.
I know Jake Holmes' "Dazed and Confused" really well. I might prefer it to the Led Zeppelin version, which is saying something. That Yardbirds version is really good.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
That entire JH album is spectacular, btw
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Something off Joni Mitchell's Blue, not sure which song fits best ("A Case of You"? Almost, but not quite). Likewise Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. "Tangled Up In Blue"?
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Good Life's Album of the Year is filled with these, but "Inmates" is the most obvious example. It's essentially a nine-minute rebuttal to every breakup song Tim Kasher has ever written.
― Evan R, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" work?
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
nothing objective about "call your girlfriend" that song is just robyn enacting a sexy agenda
they'd sound more analytical if ian curtis were singing them like a robot
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" might qualify.
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe not...how about Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Neither One of Us"?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two"
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Stevie Wonder, "It Ain't No Use"
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
they'd sound more analytical if ian curtis were singing them like a robotHa, maybe.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
speaking of joni... "i had a king" is perfect for this thread i think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=LcGvR1OumjM&gl=US
― cock chirea, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ouch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=LcGvR1OumjM
― cock chirea, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Lee626, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it's about a car, but an ex dedicated this one to me, and it stuck. Especially the stormy weather line, since we ran together during the Great Flood of '93.
― pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
God, Johnny Lang. That guy's gotta be 28 by now, amirite?
― pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahaha, holy shit. He's 31.
― pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Prefab Sprout - "When Love Breaks Down"Nick Drake - "Place To Be"Harry Nilsson - "Together"Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel" (yacht-rock classic!)Fleetwood Mac - "Silver Springs"Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me"
― Lee626, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink