One pseudo-anti-valentine game...

The Washington Post offers a surprisingly interesting Anti-Valentine's Playlist in honor of the madness and hysteria wrought on us all by the Hallmark car(d)tel.  I really never thought of "Mannequin" as a song of "rage" -- it was always more of a "buzz off" experience -- "you don't even start / to interest me / it's not animosity / just don't interest me." 

One song they're really missing from the survey, however, likely belongs somewhere between the "rage" and "regret" columns... "Dalliance" by the Wedding Present.  "I was yours for seven years / that's what you call a dalliance? // I don't care / after all you've done" ... and the fury unleashed when everyone jumps on their fuzzboxes at the same time -- a moment that really came across better on the import vinyl EP than the US-released CD (something must have gotten lost in the production and compression and conversion to digital.)  [*]

UPDATE: Another entry from the Post, offered with tongue firmly in cheek -- why Lloyd Dobler is better than Jake Ryan (at least in the retrospective mythos of 80s teen filmdom).  At least we're confining the self-pity to one day that has some historical relevance (a martyred saint's feast day) as opposed to the torn-from-whole-cloth "Sweetest Day" nonsense.