Favourite anti-love song?
 

What are your favourite anti-love songs? If you're feeling generous, please also explain why you like them...but I understand that if you're here in this thread, you might not be in the mood. :/

I've noticed that the "favourite love song" thread about love ballads has begun to include quite a few negative songs about love, so I felt it was high time to give anti-love songs their own thread as I thought of doing long ago: http://www.musicbanter.com/pop/27983...tml#post861141

Here are two of my favourite anti-love songs:

Feist - "Let It Die"
A pretty song and I love the line, "We don't see eye to eye or hear ear to ear."



Katy Perry - "I'm Still Breathing"
I like the nice somber mood and the extended metaphor...a conceit, even (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit)...to represent the death/suicide of a relationship:

HOw about "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mud

This isn't really one of my favorites but it instantly came to mind when I saw the thread title.



This is my mother's favorite song. My parents got separated but they never divorced.

She would just bring into song and sing this so loudly.



Now to my list of favorites. I love this song because it's pretty uplifting and positive as far as trying to finally let go of a woman that is no good for you when you are the good guy in the relationship. Which has happened to me in the past. I have had two exes of mines cheat on me three times meaning that one girl did it twice! I took her back and tried to forgive her but the trust was completely gone and she went and cheated on me again! that was the last straw.



This was a song I dedicated to one of my exes after our break up.

I actually have a song related to each ex that I have ever had to help me get over the hurt from the relationship.



This is another dedicated song to an ex of mines.
The relationship was a very weird one and I felt like she was using me to use her quite literally. It's hard to explain the details of that but this song does a good job summing it up.

Hands down - No Woman No Cry

because the title explains it all. things will be alright if we get rid of the source of the heartache, unfortunately, it is not that easy.

women can make a man weak with a simple smile. how do they do that?

Abnormal by Bumblefoot

Pleading the "It's not you, it's me" argument.
Plus, he's insane.



Sweet, slower acoustic version.

Great live version of this. I just love the irony of the song. Mellow and mainstream musically but completely anti mainstream with it's lyrics and a band that is definitely not here to gain popularity points with commercial audiences. Still one of the U.K's best bands that no one has barely heard of over here :(

Chris Isaak: Wicked Game.



♫ "No, I don't wanna fall in love.
(This love is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love.
(This love is only gonna break your heart)
With you...
With you..." ♪

However, at the same time, the dreamy music invites you to fall in love. It's a wicked song. Perhaps that's why I love it.

I was thinking of doing a thread just like this. Some of my favorite love songs are not about being in love, but about love gone wrong or like you say "anti-love" and I such a hard time thinking of a positive love song for "favourite love song" thread.

During the 60's I can't think of a group who wrote better negative love songs than the Rolling Stones, while The Beatles songs were about holding hands and the feeling of walking on cloud 9, the Stones had a darker side, they were more cynical and realistic. "Backstreet Girl" is one of my favorite if not my favorite Rolling Stones song, I think the music is amazing, it has such a folksy (European) sound, and the lyrics are a complete downer. I would love to go into detail what I think the song is about, (like does he love her or is he being mean to her) but I don't know if I should go into detail, because really it could mean something different to someone else. When people listen to a song, everyone has their own interpretation of the song.

Gloria Gaynor's "I will Survive" comes to mind. I just like the power in her voice when she is singing. Another one would be "Love Stinks" by the J. Geils Band. I liked the Adam Sandler version as well , if not for the giggles.

You love her
but she loves him
And he loves somebody else
you just can't win
And so it goes
till the day you die
This thing they call love
it's gonna make you cry

There was also a song called "Everything about you" by Ugly Kid Joe (perhaps I am one of the few that remember the tune for those who have blissfully forgot it) that probably would fit well here..