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songs for the dumped Saturday December 13

a lot of people around here are studying like mad for finals. this week, i actually had very little to do. i'm currently procrastinating the writing of a speech in japanese; i feel constricted by the assignment because i have to pull one of three index cards out of a hat tomorrow and give a fluent two-minute speech on either (a) the chief (b) women's role in the home or (c) cloning.

sadly, i am interested in (b) only, and i don't think i can properly express my thoughts on the subject in two minutes in english, let alone in japanese. i know where i stand on the chief, but i just really don't feel like giving a speech on it. in short, i'm just disappointed with our oral final exam, as i think it is asking too much of us to have three two-minute speeches prepared only to draw one at random. it ~~is a waste of my time~~ is disappointing that i will write two speeches that will never be given. i would much rather give a six-minute speech on a decided topic. but this isn't my decision.

at any rate, so that's all i have to do this week, and as a result, i have not been taking life too seriously. therefore, i took it upon myself to try to help out the people who are actually working hard: last night i made leslie dinner, and i made christina a cd to study to, as well as helping her on monday develop the plotline for her story.

while making that cd for christina, i browsed my collection looking for what i wanted to put on there. in the process, i found all of these good breakup songs that i never knew i had -- but then it occurred to me how much music is about girls and their subversive actions. i suppose my collection is biased, as it's full of old cake albums -- cake's old albums are chock full of that kind of rhetoric. at any rate. it made me think of high fidelity: "am i miserable because i listen to pop music, or do i listen to pop music because i'm miserable?" i wouldn't say that i'm miserable, though, i would just say that i had a fun time coming up with a top five list for the category.

thus, the top five songs about getting dumped (and i expect that you'll leave yours in the comments):

honorable mention: any dashboard confessional song

five: saves the day - as your ghost takes flight
four: blue october - breakfast after ten
three: cake - friend is a four letter word
two: reel big fish - all i want is more
one: ben folds five - song for the dumped

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reva on December 13, 2003 06:42 PM
5: cry--faith hill 4: best i ever had (grey sky morning)--vertical horizon 3. call and answer--barenaked ladies 2. Don't Speak-No Doubt 1. Be With You-Enrique Iglesias These are my top five in the order I remembered them, not necessairly the order of signifigance.
mark on December 13, 2003 08:15 PM
that's why you re-order them after writing them down :)
Kate on December 14, 2003 08:50 AM
5. Last Goodbye-Jeff Buckley 4. Something I can never have-NIN (what can I say, it's a sentimental high school favorite) 3. Don't come around here no more-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2. Hey Jupiter-Tori Amos 1. You Think You're a Man by some band I don't know on the Queer as Folk soundtrack Yea those are my break up songs. 3 and 1 aren't particularly wallow-y songs but they great righteous indignation ballads.
nance on December 16, 2003 10:26 AM
5. You Just Lost One - L. Hill 4. Come Away - Ani Difranco 3. Don't Ever Fucking Question That - Sean Daley 2. Song by Cat Power - title unknown - "I want to be a good woman... and I want... for you to be a good man..." 1. Spoken Word track by Sage Francis - I think it constitutes a song since it is a track on an album and starts out with fading music and also has a rhythmical meter. Anyhow that shit is ill.
mark on December 16, 2003 11:53 AM
that shit is ill? have you been talking to jie?
jables on December 16, 2003 05:30 PM
there are a few missing on these lists. Last track on the first Goldfinger CD, "Fuck you, and your cat." Damn funny. Audioslave, "What you are" Awesome. Garbage, "Cup of Coffee" off of Beautiful Garbage. Heart Wrenching. Bruce Hornsby, "Fields of Gray" Dave Matthew's Band, "Where are you Going?" Norah Jones, "Cold, Cold Heart" The girl didn't win five Grammy's for nothing. I guess it depends on the tone you're going for. Angry, sad, depressed, remorseful, regretful, whatever.
Todd on December 18, 2003 12:13 AM
We should keep this going. We might end up with the best cross-taste compilation of breakup songs ever. We could make a box set and send it to needy children in undersocialized countries. :) I'd buy a copy.

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