When the Postman Doesn't Call on Valentine's Day

The shops are awash with hearts and flowers and chocolates and all the trappings of a commercially insipid and putrid Valentine's Day.  Call me bitter but in the spirit of being perverse I have concocted my own Anti-Valentines compilation, selecting the most twisted, miserable and bleak songs which bring either unsympathetic thoughts of love or present an alternative to being trapped in the nightmare of what constitutes the perfect ideal vision of a romantic relationship (as in the fantasies of advertising companies).  Hey so they're not all totally connected to love but the title alone should convey enough:

Touchy! - A-ha

Tears Are Not Enough - ABC

Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants

I could be Happy - Altered Images

Hope there's someone - Anthony and the Johnsons

It's Better this Way - Associates

What's A Girl To Do? - Bat for Lashes

Small Talk Stinks - Bauhaus

I don't love anyone - Belle and Sebastian

Blue it is - Billy Mackenzie

Declare Independence - Bjork

Love Burns - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

No Need to Cry - British Sea Power

Why Should I Settle for You - Candie Payne

Maybe Someday - The Cinematics

Love + Pain - Clor

Men's Needs - The Cribs

Music is My Hot Hot Sex - CSS

How Beautiful You Are - The Cure

We're So Happy - Danse Society

Some Kind of Fool - David Sylvian

The Trial - Dead Can Dance

I Luv U - Dizzee Rascal

I Love You Cause I Have To - Dogs Die in Hot Cars

Darling, You're Mean - The Duke Spirit

Is There Something I Should Know? - Duran Duran

Getting Away With It - Electronic

There's A Ghost In My House - The Fall

Get Up and Use Me - Fire Engines

Bandages - Hot Hot Heat

Leif Erikson - Interpol

Fall in Love With Me - Japan

Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis Cocker

Heart and Soul - Joy Division

Everyday I love you Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs

Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron

Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines

I Want to Burn Again - Magazine

Going Missing - Maximo Park

Jealousy - Octopus

She's a Rejector - Of Montreal

Rip It Up - Orange Juice

XOYO - The Passage

Chained - Paul Haig

The Murder of Love - Propaganda

Lipgloss - Pulp

You and I - Mass

Love is the Drug - Roxy Music

Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne

Dirty Disco - Section 25

Overrated - Siobhan Donaghy

Typical Girls - The Slits

Stop me if you think you've heard this one before - The Smiths

Say Hello, Say Goodbye - Soft Cell

I'm Free - Soup Dragons

I Think I'm in Love - Spiritualized

Still in Love Song - The Stills

Beautiful Alone - Strangelove

Walk on By - The Stranglers

Is This It - The Strokes

Life's What you Make It - Talk Talk

Watch me Bleed - Tears for Fears

That Move - Teddy Thompson

Infected - The The

United - Throbbing Gristle

Suffocated Love - Tricky

Rockwrock - Ultravox

You've got my number (why don't you use it) - The Undertones

Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground

History - The Verve

Get Free - The Vines

Pagan Lovesong - Virgin Prunes

All I asked you to do - The Wake

Inaction - We are Scientists

Freeze - We are Performance

Last Christmas - Wham!

Love is a Number - White Rose Movement

Fell in Love With A Girl - The White Stripes

Must be the Moon - !!!