The FIXX were pigeonholed as another "haircut band", but there was SO much beyond the hits (Stand or Fall, Red Skies, One Thing Leads to Another, Saved by Zero, Are We Ourselves?, Secret Separation). I always thought of them as a prog rock band without the overplaying. Dan K Brown is a great bass player, and between him and Sting, I learned a lot about making creative use of empty space. They remained active long after the 80s faded, and just this year put out a great new record called Beautiful Friction. Cy Curnin is damn near David Bowie and Peter Murphy as a singer in my opinion. Missing Persons was another fav. I didn't get into Duran until after the fact, but I really like a lot of their stuff now. John Taylor was a pretty inventive guy, often slightly changing up his bass lines from one verse to the next.