25 Anti-Valentine's Day songs

Valentine’s Day means a romantic evening for happy loving couples as well as a cash infusion for restaurants, florists, jewelers, and sellers of greeting cards and chocolates. However, for those who are broken-hearted or simply not in a relationship, it’s a day that can’t go away fast enough. To help drown out the din of sappy love songs, here’s a playlist of twentyfive Anti-Valentine’s Day songs to get you through this Hallmark holiday.

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1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Juliana Hatfield - Everybody Loves Me But You
3. The Replacements - Answering Machine
4. Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning
5. Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
6. Ani Difranco - Shameless
7. Joe Jackson - Happy Loving Couples
8. Golden Palominos - I'm Not Sorry
9. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale
10. Mazzy Star - Blue Flower
11. Tori Amos - Tear In Your Hand
12. Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - Love Hurts
13. Concrete Blonde - ...Long Time Ago
14. Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped
15. The The & Sinead O'Connor - Kingdom Of Rain
16. Veruca Salt - The Morning Sad
17. The Lemonheads - The Great Big NO
18. This Mortal Coil - You And Your Sister
19. The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy
20. PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig
21. Nerf Herder - Sorry
22. The Breeders - Divine Hammer
23. Elvis Costello - Alison
24. The White Stripes - Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
25. Billy Bragg - Valentine's Day Is Over