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.)