by Jason AnkenyVirtually a Dan Treacy solo record, I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod strips away all remaining vestiges of the buoyancy long associated with the Television Personalities, leaving behind a harrowing portrait of alienation, desperation and self-loathing; A Stranger to Myself, Haunted, Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore, A Long Time Gone and I Can See My Whole World Crashing Down are frighteningly bleak and painfully affecting.