From a psychedelic art project at first, to their eventual place as pioneers of electronic pop in the late 70s and 80s. Dismissed by the Rock establishment as that weird new wave band, copied by lame wanna-bes but never equaled. They kind of got lost in the later 80s but those first few years / first 4 albums are really great, IMO.
Aren’t their really early videos something to see? I would have killed to see them in the early 80s but everything beyond music videos on MTV was hard to find and sort of secret about them. The mystery and lore surrounding the band was part of their appeal, for me at least.