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.