h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A590069

Most people remember Tears for Fears for songs like Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Their career, however, stretched from a relatively unimpressive beginning in the band Graduate and lasted until 1996. Main man Roland Orzabal was (and still is) a brilliant musician with an intuitive knowledge of great music - something he amply demonstrated during the 14 years of Tears for Fears.

What! No mention of them on the soundtrack of "Real Genius"?

BTW Sybil wasn't schizophrenic she had DIS (Disassocitive Identity Syndrome) or whatever they are calling it nowdays (it changes everytime they find a case and someone gets to publish )

I think several of their songs (particularly b-sides) have been used in film soundtracks, but I'm not aware of 'Real Genius'. Should I be?

Perhaps this strays from your topic, but it is the best film Val Kilmer has ever been in, and IMAO one of the best films of all time

Check it out.

(oh, and it has "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" in it)

Thanks for that - I'll look out for it.

As for whether it strays from the topic, I don't know. If I could find enough TfF songs used in film soundtracks it could warrant a paragraph (or a section) of its own. I know that 'New Star' was used in the film 'Threesome' but can't think of any more offhand. Any offers?

I can't comment on their music, but...

the entry is a great one


Bossel

Thanks, again, for your kind comment.

Superb Entry. To be honest, I was never a huge fan of TfF, but you've convinced me that I may have misjudged them! I think the preferred Edited Guide style is single quotes and plain text for song titles and italics for album titles, but the subs could probably fix that. The (excellent) Radiohead Entry you've referenced is now in the Edited Guide, so you could take the '(recommended)' out of the link.

Great stuff - very thorough and informative. I've had a couple of ideas for music-related Entries, and I feel inspired to go and work on them now!

Thank you for the nice comments - I may go back and change the TfF entry to fit with the h2g2 stylings you mention, save the SubEds some work.

And I agree with you about the Radiohead entry - it is great. I should really go back and tell the author - I'm sure she/he would appreciate it.

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Congratulations!

Yay - the 4 Entry is going in the Edited Guide!
Congratulations, !

Why, thank you kindly.

Perhaps you could tell me if I still have time to make a few changes (such as those you mentioned above)? I read somwhere a while ago that as soon as an entry is recommended it's copied and any further changes have to be made by an Ed or SubEd. Is this true?

Not that it really matters.

That is true, but the subs are pretty good at sorting out minor style problems. The edited version of the Entry will appear in the list of 'Guide Entries this Researcher has created' on your Personal Space several days before it appears on the front page, so you have the chance to contact the Italics if you think anything terrible has been done to your Entry.

And that is very unlikely. In my experience, the editors have a pretty light touch. Us Scouts send the subs and the editors the URL of the relevant Peer Review thread as well as that of the Entry when we recommend an Entry, so they have all the comments that have been made about the Entry to hand when they come to look at it - in this case, including my suggestions.

One of my favorite groups. l liked "Sowing the seeds of love",and the rest of the CD. Can't remeber the name of CD.