The Earl of Ealing
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Valentines Day is a day for love and roses, for chocolates and champagne, for kisses and sweet nothings. If you are lucky. Not everyone is in love on Valentines Day. Not everyone is happy and fluffy. You may have never found love. You may have found love but had it snatched from you. Your Valentine’s love may not even know who you are.
There are many songs about love. But none of the interesting ones are about how love is a wonderful thing, apart from Elvis with Love Me Tender.
So here are my top 10 anti-Valentine songs. Anti-romantic love songs. Real love songs. And no, I haven’t included This is Not a Love Song, because it isn’t a love song.
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Every silver lining has a cloud
2. Take your love and shove it – Joe Pesci
The catharsis of letting your lover know how you really feel
3. Where the Wild Roses Grow – Nick Cave and Kylie
You’re beautiful. I love you. Now I have to kill you
4. Walk on By – Dionne Warwick
The grief of a failed relationship. The pain of seeing an ex-lover
5. Valentine – Richard Hawley
Someone remembering their ex on Valentine’s Day
6. Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
When a relationship goes bad
7. I Hate Valentine’s Day – Jewel
Not a great song – but the title says it all!
8. Valentine’s Day – Marilyn Manson
This has nothing to do with Valentines Day, which makes it perfect for this list
9. I Touch Myself – Divnyls
A popular alternative to dating
10. Girlfriend in a Coma – The Smiths
Morrisey with the ultimate cheap date for Valentine’s
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