10 Best Rock And Roll Breakup Albums

There's a good chance that nearly half of Radiohead's biggest hits could make for a decent breakup song playlist. When they're not talking about the destruction that's going on around them on albums like Kid A, songs like Fake Plastic Trees, High and Dry, and even Creep seem like the perfect songs to listen to when you've lost someone you're close to. With years comes experience though, and A Moon Shaped Pool may be the closest they've come to pure melancholy.

During the making of this record, Thom Yorke had separated from his wife, which makes for songs that feel a lot more wounded sonically. Though most of these songs were started years before this record was made, hearing them in this form has a more foreboding feel, like the subtle strings on Burn the Witch or the acoustic sounds of Present Tense. Even if songs like Decks Dark have to do with an alien invasion, there's just an added sense of surrealism in the mix, which makes for a record that has a lot more sadness running through it.

The album packs even more of a punch when Thom's ex-wife passed away a short time after their separation, giving a new meaning to a lot of these songs once you hear them in context. A song like True Love Waits may have been hard to get through when they played it live back in the '90s, but you practically need a trigger warning before listening to this version of the song knowing what we know now.