no lists are ever complete.. but...

I mustn't neglect to mention The Thompson Twins... my first favourite 1980s band.

The debut 1981 LP was prime indie collective squat agit pop,
owing more to the best of the late 70s.

Then they suddenly went big time commercial sell-out corporate chart pop..
- and some of that was very good as well...

Now if my memory was up to it;
I'd argue the new romantic fashion magazine / Art / Culture scene ..
Blitz / Face / ID [if I remember correctly]
must shoulder much blame and responsibility for embracing the corporate yuppification sterilisation
of the music business of the later 1980s..