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Where do these guys fall in music classification? Bill Nelson one of my old faves always defied classification to me.Music Platform was all over the place , but always intruiging.Love and Rockets I think suck these days but right after Bauhaus Tones on Tale was very cutting edge Gritty electro pop with dark lyrics. Just wondering thought.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Brian Eno

I'd say that Bill Nelson had a sort of avant-pop, new romantic style similar to Japan and David Sylvian, but you're right, difficult to categorize. Tones on Tail definitely had goth leanings leftover from Bauhaus, whereas Love & Rockets were more neo-psyc

AH the early ones...Bill Nelson, Gary Numan and Kraftwork.....wow!

I remember when 'Empire of the senses' had radio play.

Steve Strange was in that (Where to put it) thing too....more like ULTRAVOX (gee I wonder why) but with more of that dance beat