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Yes that is Tears For Fears in their early mod revival incarnation: GraduateLooking a bit like Mick Talbot's first band, the one with that song that goes "a man ain't a man with a ticket in his hand... YOU NEED WHEELS"Good Lord, there is documentationI don't mind the opportunism / bandwagon-jumping thing in rock'n'pop at all - in fact I rather enjoy itMusicians are fans, just like the rest of us - they get enthused by the New Thing(of course they also want to make it - make money, have hits)Fans are fickle and move on, critics are constantly jettisoning one thing and jumping to the next... so why shouldn't bands? One thing I enjoyed in doing Still In A Dream is observing how nimbly the groups keep moving across the timespan of 1984-94. The Soup Dragons are mimsy C86 types and then they go baggy with a Stones cover, "I'm Free", copping a move off the equally nimble Primal ScreamTeenage Fanclub, whose "roots" similarly lay in C86 cutesy tweepop (Boy Hairdressers, BMX Bandits), i.e.…