Link → It's better to break a face than to break a heart
But IS it? Was “Beautiful Song” by Cansei der ser Sexy right? God only knows. But hey, I had my task, and I made the right mix. I took it from the point of view of vaguely angry or vaguely kinky.
1. Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
Ha, is it about the fetish industry, or the male industrial complex? The shackles of society, or being tied up to get off? The world may never know.
2. Mind Your Own Business - Delta 5
This just SOUNDS like a broken face. A “stay the fuck away,” opposite of love song.
3. The Killing Jar - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Well, instead of being loved or broken hearted, you could be shoved in a jar to suffocate. That’s fun, right? Are there any Japanese porns featuring this yet?
4. This Piece Of Poetry Is Meant To Do Harm - The Ark
The title was clever enough to warrant mention. It’s jaunty and biting, not quite a bad break-up so much as they sounds of malevolent relationship taunting.
5. Bull In The Heather - Sonic Youth
Once again, blurring the line between “Is it about sexism or is it about S&M?”
6. Ringfinger - Nine Inch Nails
It was this or “Discipline.”
7. Long Snake Moan - PJ Harvey
Listen to the lyrics. Like much of the album “To Bring You My Love,” this is the creepiest of creepy sex songs, which is why it’s so fucking hot, where you’re not sure what comes next but it might be the end of you.
8. Second Skin - The Gits
This is genuinely wanting to escape from everything around you, break through to find yourself in an ever suffocating environment. Rather than break a heart, you’ll break a face if that’s what it takes.
9. Creep - The Afghan Whigs
Creepy, learing, menacing and violent cover of … TLC? Leave it up to Greg Dulli, the biggest creep in rock ‘n’ roll.
10. Stevie Nix - The Hold Steady
The rising and fading of a girl who gets shored up by the decadent scene, tries to find herself and instead finds a life of rough treatment and drug overdoses. Much more than a heartbreak. More like an after-school special.
11. The Back Of Love - Echo & The Bunnymen
They are on the chopping block. Chopping away all the things that could be heartbreak.
12. Don’t Want to Know If You’re Lonely - Hüsker Dü
What a great fuck you. Seriously. Just listen. It’s the soundtrack to lighting your ex’s car on fire.
13. Lets Call It Love - Sleater-Kinney
About the intricacies and interpersonal frictions that cause you to just, in the end, declare it love because it’s easier than détente.
- John
