Artist	Song
J. Geils Band	Love Stinks
Adam Sandler	Linda
The Cure	Pictures of You
Aimee Mann	One
The Smashing Pumpkins	Bodies
Eric Clapton	Promises
Lil' Troy	Bitch in My Book
Violent Femmes	Please Do Not Go
Natalie Merchant	Break Your Heart
Henry Rollins	Liar
Rolling Stones	Love in Vain
Chris Isaak	Somebody's Crying
Neil Young	Old Man
Gene Pitney	It Hurts to Be in Love

Comment:

Alright, this is the first of two CDs I painstakinly compiled after my last heart break and before I met my current girlfriend. I still hate Valentine's Day, but I don't think I can ever go back to my troubled state of mind when I made this CD without listening to these songs.
I limited my track listings to correspond with Feb. 14, and went from there. Acutally, as anyone who has seen the movie can tell, the first three tracks were inspired by "The Wedding Singer" with Adam Sandler's "Linda" referencing The Cure. From there, I went for my usual electic mix, hitting every contemporary genre, from gloomy goth (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins) to plaintive classic rock (Neil Young, Eric Clapton) to angry rap (Lil' Troy) to tear-jerking female singer-songwriters (Natalie Merchant, Aimee Mann).
Altogether, they are meant to traverse the rough and rocky emotional territory of heartbreak...from utter loneliness (One, Old Man), nagging regret (Promises, Pictures of You), bitter hopelessness (Love in Vain, Please Don't Go, Bodies, It Hurts to Be in Love), terrible anger (Liar, Bitch in My Book) and misery-loves-company anthems (Love Stinks, Break Your Heart).
CD bonus: I designed a CD sticker for this compilation prominently featuring a real human heart torn apart by forceps...yeah, I messed up in the head! Let me know what you think...

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