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Anti-Love Songs

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:39 / 12.02.02

One of my friends is DJing and anti-valentine's day party and is looking for songs that would fit the mood.

I suggested Tainted Love by Soft Cell, and Life is Shit by the Dead Milkmen, but I know you people can do better that THAT.

Have at thee!

03:18 / 12.02.02

Well, how about "Anti-Love Song" by Betty Davis?

05:31 / 12.02.02

"Love will tear us apart" By Joy Division?

"Good Idea" by Sugar

"This is How it feels to be lonely" - the Inspirals.

"Eleanor Rigby" - the fab four, of course.

"Dress" - PJ Harvey

"How Soon Is Now?" - The Smiths.

05:47 / 12.02.02

Big Dumb Sex by Soundgarden

Fengs for the Memory

06:48 / 12.02.02

Fat - Violent Femmes.
The shah sleeps in Lee Harveys grave- Butthole Surfers
That will put everybody of Luuurven'

06:48 / 12.02.02

Sorry - Nerf Herder

that's the untimate in anti-love songs!

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

08:29 / 12.02.02

revol- manic street preachers. lists the sexual failures of the 20th centuries greatest polititians, with the implication that if love is impossible for men like these, what chance do the rest of us have?

10:58 / 12.02.02

"One is the lonliest number", I forget who wrote it. Sorry.

"One is the lonliest number that you'll every do. Two is the loniest number, it's the lonliest number since the number one."

HA!

12:07 / 12.02.02

Anything by The Afghan Whigs--especially their EP of covers, "Uptown Avondale".

"Infected" by Bad Religion

"Why Do They Leave?" by Ryan Adams

12:09 / 12.02.02

'This is not a love song' by Public Image Limited of course...

Peter and the Test Tube Babies did a great sone called 'All about Love' which was written in the style of a rock ballad with lyrics explaining how to do a rock ballad...

This is the drop-out part
Where the drop -outs drop out
Then the voice goes up a key
Just in case you get bored

12:19 / 12.02.02

'how fucking romantic' by the mfs
'mistakes and regrets' by a/y/w/k/u/b/t trail of dead
'box elder' by pavement

12:36 / 12.02.02

Yes, I'm a little bored today:

Iggy Pop – Sick of You
Spiritualized – I Think I’m in Love
Beck – Cancelled Check
Ramones – Glad to See You Go
Ramones - Why is it always this way?
Ramones – I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You
Ramones – Chainsaw
Ramones – The KKK Took my Baby Away
The Loves – Gonna Get Fucked Up
The Donnas – Little Boy
Shellac – Prayer To God
The Sex Pistols - Bodies
Mudhoney – You Got it (Keep it outta my face)
Mudhoney - By Her own Hand
Mudhoney – You Make Me Die
The Bouncing Souls – Say Goodbye
The Bouncing Souls – Hopeless Romantic
The Stuck-ups – Kill Yourself
The Stuck-ups – Can’t Stand U
Green Day – Pulling Teeth
Manics – little baby nothing
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste of Cindy
Nick Cave – Where the Wild Roses Grow
Moldy Peaches – Nothing came out
Husker Du – Standing in the Rain
Le Tgre – Gone B4 You’re Home
Hefner – God is on my side
The Slits – Love und Romance
The Slits - Ping Pong Affair
The Strokes- Barely Legal
Sonic Youth – she’s in a bad mood
Sonic Youth – Drunk Butterfly
Therapy? – pretty much the whole of ‘Troublegum’
..And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Mistakes & Regrets

and finally..

The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers

Thank you.

16:51 / 12.02.02

quote:I was 21 years when I wrote this song
I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long
People ask me when will I grow up to be a man
When the girls I knew in school are already pushing prams.

I loved you then as I love you still,
I put you on a pedestal and put you on the pill.
I don't feel bad about letting you go
I only feel bad 'cause I had to let you know.

I'm not out to change the world
I'm not looking for a New England
I'm just looking for another girl...

I love the words you wrote to me,
but that was bloody yesterday.
I can't survive on words you send
every time you need a friend.

I saw two shooting stars last night --
I wished on them... but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish I wish I wish you'd care...

I'm not out to change the world
I'm not looking for New England
I'm just looking for another girl.
--Billy Bragg, A New England

My Girlfriend's a Robot - The Hansen Bros
That's also a good one.
("I took her apart cuz she broke my heart,
I took her apart, yeah yeah.")

I would also recommend (plug, plug) a couple songs off www.mp3.com/grant . "Friendly When Drunk" would do, I think. So might "Shower Curtain Eyes" or "Corners of Yer Smile".
There's also some kick-ass anti-love songs on www.mp3.com/happies .

17:32 / 12.02.02

Riz..I'm afraid i'm gonna have to question a couple of your Anti-LOve songs mate...

quote:Ramones – The KKK Took my Baby Away

Just because she's been kidnapped doesn't mean he doesn't love her...Poor Joey's heartbroken...

quote: Nick Cave – Where the Wild Roses Grow

Just because he's murdered her doesn't mean he doesn't love her...He killed her out of love in that Nic Cave way of his

Two good Love songs in my book...Sorry to be pedantic..You may go now...

19:37 / 12.02.02

the last song i write about a girl - theataris
denial revisited - the offspring
waggy - Blink 182
you house - jimmy eat world
stupid kid - alkaline trio
what do i do now? - Sleeper
my girlfriends dead - the Vandals
what about me? - the vandals
the new you - the vandals
apple shampoo - blink 182
summerwind was always our song - the ataris
screaming infidelitys - dashboard confessional
abort mission - guttermouth
the great american sharpshooter - less than jake
bad scene and a basement show - less than jake

and pretty much anything by No use for a name..

*looks back on list*

pop-punk and emo..

i'm probably the most hated man on these boards..

21:53 / 12.02.02

i don't like you - the shitbirds
imbecelic - the grown ups
nick and nick - the grown ups
you don't own me - lesley gore
bills, bills, bills - destinys child

14:45 / 13.02.02

I did really slow covers once of "Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac, and "No Self Esteem" by the Offspring. Both of which would qualify.
"Bored of You" and "Living in Darkness" by Agent Orange are also pretty good.

16:04 / 13.02.02

"valentines day is over", billy bragg

16:05 / 13.02.02

This might actually be a love song, but

Superchunk's cover of 100,000 Fireflies-

Pissed off and angry and sad and nostalgic all rolled into one.

Killer Merritt lyric:

"You won't be happy with me/Give me one more chance/You won't be happy anyway."

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

19:39 / 13.02.02

flashback to my teenage daze of mid-nineties rawk:

greenday: fod. And come to think of it- 'she' as well, probably. and longview. and basketcase. Ah, just throw all of dookie on...
therapy: screamager. 'i've got nothing to do, but hang around and get screwed up on yooooou'. uh, or does that make it a love song, in a whiny/obsessive way?

04:13 / 14.02.02

"I Used To Love Her" -- Guns 'N' Roses
"Turn Up the Century" -- The Makers; contains the line:
You're like a swastika to Captain America
You must understand why I must forsake you
"Psycho" -- The Sonics
"Scrubs" -- TLC
"I Hate You" -- The Exploited
"Go to Hell" -- Nashville Pussy; southern rock song about killing his wife cuz she caught her with his best friends.

13:54 / 16.02.02

'Woman' - Anti Nowhere League