For those of us who are feeling a tad more Kim/Thurston this Valentine’s Day, here’s a two-hour, not-too-mopey mix of songs about breaking up, broken hearts, unrequited love, and romantic gestures gone bad to worse. Tributes to the Ex from Archers of Loaf, R.E.M., The Replacements, Blake Babies, The dB’s, Scruffy the Cat, Nick Lowe, Team Dresch, Jawbreaker, The Undertones, Nick Cave, Sebadoh, The Wedding Present, and Camper Van Beethoven, plus more obscure cuts from Marine Girls, Pointed Sticks, Taxi Boys, The Brains, Ultra Vivid Scene, and The Spongetones.
Playlist
- The Spongetones — Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?
- Camper Van Beethoven — Photograph
- Jawbreaker — Sluttering (May 4th)
- Archers Of Loaf — You And Me
- Scrawl — Out Of Mind
- Team Dresch — Freewheel
- Blake Babies — Take Your Head Off My Shoulder
- R.E.M. — (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- Yo La Tengo — Tried So Hard
- Mule — Now I Truly Understand
- Beck — Rowboat
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — By The Time I Get To Phoenix
- Buzzcocks — Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)
- All — She’s My Ex
- Pointed Sticks — Out Of Luck
- The A’s — Parasite
- The dB’s — The Fight
- The Brains — Money Changes Everything
- The Karl Hendricks Trio — How’s The Cat?
- Galaxie 500 — Sorry
- Marine Girls — In Love
- The Bats — Miss These Things
- Felt — Get Out Of My Mirror
- Ultra Vivid Scene — Walkin’ After Midnight
- Beat Rodeo — Just Friends
- The Cynics — Baby, What’s Wrong?
- Scruffy The Cat — Time Never Forgets
- Taxi Boys — Bad To Worse
- The Beat — Walking Out On Love
- The Undertones — One Way Love
- Ramones — Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Beat Happening — I’ve Lost You
- Nick Lowe — My Heart Hurts
- The Wedding Present — Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
- Eugenius — Hot Dog
- Sebadoh — Together Or Alone
- S.F. Seals — Pulp
- Liz Phair — Divorce Song
- Marshall Crenshaw — There She Goes Again
- Hoodoo Gurus — My Girl
- The Replacements — Unsatisfied