10 Best Breakup Albums Of All Time

If you choose to live the rock star lifestyle, you're always going to have to deal with strained relationships along the way. No matter how hard you try to keep things together, there's going to be those precious moments that fall through the cracks and make your lifelong companions feel like strangers in the long run. While that slow drift apart feels like an eternity, Bob Dylan managed to capture it in real time on Blood on the Tracks.

And that album title is surely appropriate, with Dylan holding absolutely nothing back throughout every one of these tracks. Although you hear Dylan's genuine hurt at losing his longtime wife Sara, you can tell that he still has a chip on his shoulder, with Idiot Wind being probably the most scathing indictment with the line "it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe." Dylan's not done there though, upending the hurt of songs like If You See Her, Say Hello with genuine sadness like You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go.

The lynchpin of the project though has to be Tangled Up in Blue, where Dylan puts every moment of their relationship in the same room and takes inventory of how everything went down. For all of the greatness on display here, it's almost reaching to even call this a coherent album. This is more like the audio version of a weary traveler trying to piece together the shattered dreams that he left on the highway behind him.