I'll sidestep that question SS because few on here will have heard of them, though most will know one or two individuals from subsequent work and in truth it's pretty irrelevant to the discussion.
Safe to say I was the one continually pushing us out of the pop rock groove into experimentation, folk, austerity, modernism, mad production and ensuring we remained well outside the mainstream to the frustration of all, except myself.

Plus is was bleedin years ago.