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Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

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University of Wisconsin historian Florencia Mallon talks about Chilean singer Victor Jara - one of the thousands of Chileans rounded up during the coup and executed.

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Nicholas Felton transforms data into something beautiful. As a self-described "information designer" and extremely dedicated life logger, he tracks aspects of his life over the course of the year and then publishes them as "annual reports."

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Esther Iverem tells Jim Fleming about the first time she saw Spike Lee's film "She Gotta Have It" and why she thought it marked the start of a new wave of Black cinema.

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The late Christopher Hitchens was one of the most controversial journalists and public intellectuals of recent years.  In this conversation, he talks about his memoir "Hitch 22" and the role of intellectuals.

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Houston's Rothko Chapel is a shrine to the transformative power of art. Abstract artist Mark Rothko created 14 enormous paintings for this sacred space. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg tells us the history behind the music on her CD "Rothko Chapel," and writer Terry Tempest Williams describes her reverence for the Rothko Chapel.

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Peter Edelman's Dangerous Idea?   Putting people to work doing things we need done.

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Danielle Trussoni is the author of “Falling Through the Earth,” a memoir of life with her Vietnam Vet father who was a tunnel rat during the war...

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