I've a soft spot for It Bites - I bought their first album and saw them a couple of times as a kid. I thought they were really exciting and yes, I was a total muso
In retrospect I think it was pretty experimental stuff, not in their prog references (which were pretty classic) but in the way they mixed the prog with the pop and ended up on Saturday morning kids shows and TOTP. But given that they were going for a pop bid with a pretty chunky Virgin advance it didn't really work out I think. Despite that they were a hybrid band and pretty interesting.
But re: Dirty Loops, I think there are bands lacing their pop with adventurous musicianship in a less naff way...
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Completely agree with your first sentence and disagree with your second.
Music is music, you either like it or you don't.
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