MIXTAPE 101 | Anti-Love Playlist; Sad Songs For Sad People.

Well I think it’s safe to say, love sucks. A lot of times.
Sometimes getting through heartbreak feels nearly impossible. Music is cathartic. In times of heartbreak, or just general sadness, I try to refer to an old saying of mine – “music will save your life.”

And then today, I read an article titled: Broken Hearts Are Truly Painful, Research Shows on the Huffington Post. A very informative as well as surprising article, obviously- they go on to describe comparisons in brain functioning in people describing physical pain versus societal rejection, heartbreak, etc- and how incredibly similar the brain patterns are. Truly not very surprising, when you really get down to it, but still, remarkable nonetheless. They also explain how the same part of the brain controls both physical and social pain, which may be the most important correlation. They also make reference to Broken Heart Syndrome, which is a sort of deep depression type of state following great loss, when experiencing a deep rooted sort of grief.

So, for the love lorn, lovesick, heart stricken – Here’s my compilation playlist of 101 Anti-Love, Break-Up songs, in no real particular order. In other words, my favorite sad bastard music.

Sorry- you won’t find Miley Cyrus or Justin Timberlake on this list. It’s mostly indie, alternative, alt-rock, folk type stuff, with a lot of oldschool-Patsy-Cline-stuff in between. Check out a YouTube playlist with these songs included at the bottom of the playlist below. Also, Spotify playlist below! Sad songs for sad people.
& feel free to let me know what I left off.

Tracks

1. Love is a Losing Game – Amy Winehouse
2. Crying – Roy Orbison
3. You Belong to Me – Patsy Cline
4. Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right – Bob Dylan
5. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long – Cat Power (cover)
6. Wake Up Alone – Amy Winehouse
7. My Dreamgirl Don’t Exist – Neutral Milk Hotel
8. Summer in the City – Regina Spektor
9. Ladder Song – Bright Eyes
10. You Really Got A Hold On Me – She & Him (cover)
11. Goodnight Bad Morning – The Kills
12. Anenome – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
13. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go – Bob Dylan
14. Don’t Bring me Down – Sia
15. Lost Cause – Beck
16. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
17. Lose You – Pete Yorn
18. I Fall To Pieces – Patsy Cline
19. Scattered Leaves – The Be Good Tanyas
20. Archipelago – Mirah
21. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh – Bright Eyes
22. Perfect – Smashing Pumpkins
23. Black Star – Radiohead
24. Somebody That I Used to Know – Elliott Smith
25. Where I End and You Begin – Radiohead
26. Lost in My Mind – The Head and the Heart
27. The Child is Gone – Fiona Apple
28. Skinny Love – Bon Iver
29. Poison Oak – Bright Eyes
30. Don’t Think Twice it’s All Right – Bob Dylan
31. You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse
32. Wrapped In My Memory – Shawn Smith
33. A Crime – Sharon Van Etten
34. Unrequited Love – Lykke Li
35. The Engine Driver – The Decemberists
36. Look For Me (I’ll Be Around) – Neko Case
37. Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine – Bob Dylan
38. Going Nowhere – Elliott Smith
39. Something Vague – Bright Eyes
40. Metal Heart – Cat Power
41. Heart of Gold – Neil Young
42. A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
43. Somedays – Regina Spektor
44. Hopefully – My Morning Jacket
45. Gravity Rides Everything – Modest Mouse
46. Rattlesnakes – Tori Amos
47. A Perfect Sonnet – Bright Eyes
48. Hope – The Submarines
49. 1,000 Oceans – Tori Amos
50. I Can’t – Radiohead
51. Black Hole – She & Him
52. Twilight – Elliott Smith
53. Werewolf – Cat Power
54. I Wish I was the Moon – Neko Case
55. How To Fight Loneliness – Wilco
56. Summer in the City – Regina Spektor
57. I Buried a Bone – Blind Pilot
58. Never is a Promise – Fiona Apple
59. Still in Love – Cat Power
60. Motion Sickness – Bright Eyes
61. Climbing up the Walls – Radiohead
62. Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye
63. Girl From the North Country – Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
64. You Will. You Will. You Will – Bright Eyes
65. Red Right Ankle – The Decemberists
66. Song of our So-called Friend – Okkervil River
67. The Lines of My Earth – Sixpence None the Richer
68. Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar
69. Bell Bottom Blues – Eric Clapton
70. Miss You – The Rolling Stones
71. Human Thing – The Be Good Tanyas
72. Like a Hurricane – Neil Young
73. Body and Soul – Billie Holiday
74. I Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett
75. Everything Reminds Me of Her – Elliott Smith
76. Things I Cannot Recall – Blind Pilot
77. Cry, Cry – Mazzy Star
78. About Her – Malcolm Mclaren
79. Strawberry Wine – Ryan Adams
80. Blood Bank – Bon Iver
81. Serpents – Sharon Van Etten
82. I Go To Sleep – Sia
83. Empty – Ray LaMontange
84. Flume – Bon Iver
85. In Spite of All the Damage – The Be Good Tanyas
86. A Sorta Fairytale – Tori Amos
87. Leave the City – The Magnolia Electric Co.
88. Going to Acapulco – Jim James & Calexico
89. Pyro – Kings of Leon
90. Stumbleine – The Smashing Pumpkins
91. Cracker Jack – Starlight Mints
92. Kiss Off – The Violent Femmes
93. Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory
94. Bloodstream – Stateless
95. Up From the Ground – Fort Atlantic
96. Playing for Keeps – Elle King
97. Cigarettes and Coffee – Otis Redding
98. October – Broken Bells
99. The Notwist – Consequence
100. Ghost Towns – Radical Face
101. Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin

YouTube Playlist