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The Passage

Years: 1978-83
Best song: "XOYO" and "Taboos"
Origin: Manchester, England
Driving force: Dick Witt's mastery of the English language is showcased via the Passage's innovative (ab)use(?) of synths and acoustic instruments. Witt's prior success as the percussionist in an acclaimed orchestra leads to obvious allusions to his classical arrangements and an orchestral majesty to the songs; but getting down to brass tacks, it's also just some great electro-pop!

PH.D

Years - 1981-83
Best Song - I Won't Let You Down (#1 in UK - 15/5/82, #3 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Pioneering synth duo - Polyphemus, Hymas, Diamond.

Portion Control

Years - 1980-87 
Best Song - Dangerzone Colony Earth
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Cyberpunk pioneers

The Plastics

Years - 1976 to 1981 (record debut in 1979 from Rough Trade)
Best Song - "Copy", "Top Secret Man"
Origin - formed in Harajyuku, Tokyo, JAPAN
Driving Force - They started as a party band and created their own fashionable and kitsch techno pop style. DEVO and B-52's are the bands which are said to have some similarities while I am not sure if they agree. Some of the band members like Talking Heads.

Prefab Sprout

Years - 1976-97 (at least)
Best Song - When Love Breaks Down (#32 UK - 10/11/84)
Origin - Durham, Ireland
Driving Force - A habit of re-issuing singles until it charts

The Primitives

Years - 1985-1991
Best Song - Crash (released 2/88, reached #5 in the UK )
Origin - Coventry, England
Driving Force - The Primitives were one of best results of a British pop genre that first gained notoriety around 1986, in the wake of the Jesus and Mary Chain (but with a backwards nod to early Blondie). Characterized by self-consciously naive vocals and distorto-guitar backing tracks, they wore their influences on their sleeves; a love of melody and the Sixties (the Monkees, the Velvets and the Byrds), fast Ramones-influenced guitars, and the pop innocence of the Buzzcocks and Orange Juice. The band peaked early and disbanded in 1991.

Propaganda

Years - 1983-86 and 1989 and currently recording with OMD
Best Song - Dr. Mabuse (#27 in UK - 28/4/84)
Origin - Dusseldorf, Germany (moved to England to start career)
Driving Force - Deceit and propaganda are inseparable. A community in which the leader and his followers come together through propaganda - whatever the merits of it's context - is a community of lies. Truth itself becomes merely a means of enlisting support and is falsified in the very utterance. This is why genuine resistance knows no propaganda. Propaganda in misanthropic. It assumes that to say that policy ought to spring from mutual understanding is not a basic principle but conveniently empty phraseology.

Pseudo Echo

Years - 1983-87 (live 1998-99)
Best Song - Listening (#8 in Melbourne)
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - Seeking commercial success

Psyche

Formed - Edmonton, Alberta Dec.13, 1982
Best Song - Unveiling The Secret, Murder In Your Love
Origin - Darrin and Stephen Huss, Canada/ Per-Anders Kurenbach,Germany
Driving Force - Our brains and our hearts and some synthy noises

The Psychedelic Furs

Years - 1977-91
Best Song - Love My Way (#29 in UK - 7/8/82, #16 in Oz, #12 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Pretty in pink, black or yellow - definitely not pstchadelic

Public Image Ltd.

Years - 1978 (Live debut December 14th in Paris)-91
Best Song - This is Not a Love Song (#4 in UK - 15/10/83, #16 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - "I've learnt to manipulate the music business. I have to deal with all kinds of stupid, sycophantic people. I've just learnt to understand my power. Everyone should learn that, otherwise they lose control." Mr. Lydon later in his career.