Slightly better than slash, but only just

[hirez]

Go here. Work out when you left school, got kicked out, went off on a gap year or whatever. Then perform some HTML and bore the rest of your not-suffering-enough-you-bastards 'friends list' with your unutterable coolth.

Since I can't be arsed with the HTML, you'll have to work out the symbols yourselves.


* New Order - Blue Monday
* Smiths - This Charming Man
* New Order - Age Of Consent
- This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
? Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums
+ Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain
* Billy Bragg - A New England
* The Fall - Eat Y'self Fitter
+ Smiths - Hand In Glove
! Naturalites and the Mystics - Picture On The Wall
* Red Guitars - Good Technology
* P.I.L - This Is Not A Lovesong
! X-Mal Deutchland - Incubus Succubus
? Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup
+ Cure - Lovecats
? Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones
* Echo and the Bunnymen - Never Stop
* New Order - Your Silent Face
* Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
! Siouxie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
* The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded
* Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
- The Assembly - Never Never
+ The Imposter - Pills and Soap
* New Order - Leave Me Alone
+ 10000 Maniacs - My Mother The War
* Sisters of Mercy - Alice
? Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig
! Aztec Camera - Oblivious
- Redskins - Lean on Me
! Chameleons - Second Skin
! X-Mal Deutchland - Qual
? Smiths - Handsome Devil
* Tools You Can Trust - Working and Shopping
! The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy
! Luddites - Doppleganger
! Sophie and Peter Johnson - Television
? Cocteau Twins - Hithertoo
* S.P.K - Metal Dance
! The Fall - Wings
* U2 - New Years Day
? Danse Society - Somewhere
* Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods
* Caberet Voltaire - Fascination
* New Order - The Village
* Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning
! Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers
! Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
! Cure - The Walk
- Tom Robinson - War Baby

Oh, ok..

* - Vinyl, ? - Don't recall it, + - Do recall it, ! - Came to my senses and picked it up later as CD/Peel Session/MP3, - - Still don't care for it.

(Well, it's slightly more life-affirming than the dreadful US version.)

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

This is much better than the dire selection I got when I tried the other one!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear you have divined the entire point of the exercise.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Your year is better than mine. 1989 was a bit... baggy. It did feature Dead Beat Descendant though.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yebbut... You've got Bob State, Telescope, Pixies...

(And 'Made of stone' is a fine record)

Only a complete nutter would think 'Aha! I shall contrive to leave school now because the Festive 50 is particularly good, as it marks the last year before Smiths dominance. Pity about the lack of Three Johns, though. Mind, that other drum-machine driven Leeds combo have made a good showing. And in later years, when the Internet has become a globe-spanning object for social good, I can appear as some kind of arbiter of indie taste for my peers and abandon the mantle of Ballard-and-JD-obsessive bedroom bound anorak-pilot.'

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Heh. True.

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

The one from my 'O' levels year has only one track I'm not keen on. Scarily I own all 50. I'm only three tracks deficient on my 'A' level list too.

Anoraktastic!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, if one's going to be an anorak-pilot, it should be for something worthwhile.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I can't do it. I can't use it for year of leaving hs or uni-I'm too old!
:(

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

You appear to be suffering from Cocteau-blindness - take 3 Pandas, a popadum and a peewit and report to nurse Frazer in the morning.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I do, don't I?

I'll admit that I've been listening to a lot of Colourbox (C-C-C-Colourbox. Am I saying it right?) in the last couple of weeks.

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

i apear to have left school in 1984