Simple Minds - my alltime favorite, but with a weaker period after Sparkle in the Rain (84) till they released Neapolis in 98. But at that time they were `old-fashioned'.
Other bands/artists... Icehouse/Iva Davies, The Fixx, Gary Numan and Oingo Boingo - quite unknown in my country (Germany), but everyone knows Weird Science.. very strange. Sad that they broke up in the mid90s... Wire (plus sideprojects like He said, HALO etc.), Indochine (french band), The Sound/Adrian Borland, Chameleons, .. my list can be longer...