MANY great songs are born out of heartbreak. But it’s a shame certain artists didn’t find lasting love and not have to inflict these albums on the world.

Jagged Little Pill , Alanis Morissette, 1995

If Alanis had found true love 30 years ago we’d have been spared the ubiquity of this mediocre soft rock album and the subsequent years of wronged singer-songwriter tropes. With Mr Right she probably wouldn’t have minded if it had rained on her wedding day. Although as the song says, that is definitely Ironic . Even if it didn’t happen at her actual wedding.

A Moon Shaped Pool , Radiohead, 2016

‘Half of my life,’ sings Thom Yorke as his 23-year relationship comes to an end. Except it’s not so much sung as slowed down and played backwards at the end of a track because of course i

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