Break Up Albums
Stu sent me a link today to a website garnering votes for an upcoming ABC special titled My Favourite Album. Yadda yadda. Another poll show. This one may be good though, ten albums over ninety minutes so it could be quite in-depth.
I shudder to think what the albums will be. Freight Train Heart? Whispering Jack? I suppose it is all down to who gets to voting. I know Stuart will be pulling for The Cure. I suppose the only way to fight the beer monsters and make this show entertaining is to go forth and vote, so once more unto the breach, dear friends, or close the wall up with our indie-rock dead.
But that is not why I am here. I am here to talk about break up albums because one of the links on the aforementioned page is for the Top 5 Break Up Albums. I was surprised as hell to see my break up album there. This one:
It has served me well when I have been tossed asunder. But don't fret, it is a solid album even in the happiest of states so do check it out. My other two favourite break up albums are Madonna's Ray of Light (one of the only times I listen to it) and Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral. Happy happy happy.
What brings me to comment though is the fact that I don't have a break up album this time around. I think that is testament to the fact that I am not coping too well with the whole affair. I get the feeling every now and then that I have locked it all away a little too securely so that I can deal with all the other shit that has accompanied the break up. The veneer cracked a little on the Saturday night in Daylesford and I felt like I was about to be swallowed by the whole experience but I stuck my finger in the dyke (how apt) and trapped it all inside.
I am going to have to let it out soon I suppose.
Tags: music
posted by walypala @ 5:03 pm
3 Comments:
The most significant in my life album? I think it must be "The Queen Is Dead".
In the meantime, as you might have guessed, I love musicals and world musicals. At the moment I'm concentrating on CZ ones. What do you make of Lucie Bila? You like it? I *love* it. It's...sympa
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Haha... that's my breakup album too. I like to think of it as a big musical hug. I listened to it so much when I realised that my boy in London that I was moving over to be with was no longer my boy. The good thing with it is that it's not a negative album, as you're saying: it's immensely positive. I listened to it because it indulged my bad feelings but also gave me a lift.
-Andrew (non-Irish)
The only problem is, when you use an album so extensively for breakups they tend to soak up some of that negative energy.
I seldom listened to The Reindeer Section or Snow Patrol for a long time after the last breakup because it was too steeped in memories.
On the flipside, you know that you are over a breakup when you can gleefully listen to the album again. That's kinda cool too.
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