30 Break-Up Songs

This is only the beginning of list which could easily run on for pages without hitting a bad song. I guess since most songs are about love, and the best songs are usually sad songs, this makes sense. This doesn't claim to be a definitive list, its just my personal selection, ranked by relevance more than quality and not including songs that I don't identify with.

1. Jacques Brel/Frank Sinatra – Ne Me Quitte Pas/If You Go Away A French song, the best English version of which was done by Sinatra
2. The Streets – Dry Your Eyes Perhaps not obvious, but the song is just perfectly spot on to the experience
3. The Beatles – Yesterday
4. Coldplay – The Scientist
5. Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
6. U2 – One
7. Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel
8. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
9. The Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
10. Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello
11. Simon and Garfunkel – We’ve Got A Groovey Thing Goin’
12. U2 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
13. Paul Simon – Graceland
14. Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
15. Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er
16. Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean Not actually a song about a break-up, more a farewell to a friend. But some of the lyrics just resonate so well and are sung with such emotion it works anyway
17. Blur – Sweet Song
18. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
19. The Rolling Stones – I Got The Blues
20. The Police – Every Breath You Take
21. The Animals – Baby Please Don’t Go
22. Death Cab For Cutie – A Lack Of Colour
23. Blur – Battery In Your Leg For the chorus: ‘you can be with me, if you want to be, you can be happy’.
24. Radiohead – Thinking About You
25. The Rolling Stones – Love In Vain
26. Moby – At Least We Tried
27. Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet
28. Diana Ross and The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go
29. The Searchers – Needles And Pins
30. Green Day – Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)