I doubt I would like much of the Invisible touch album either, certainly from the songs I remember hearing. But it sounds like your preference is definitely progressive over pop. Some earlier solo songs he did I really quite liked: Against All Odds, One More Night, Take Me Home. Some progressive groups did become more pop over time, so did some punk groups, but it could be to memorable effect sometimes I think. By 85 quite a few British acts also seemed to want to get a bigger and more streamlined production sound to appeal to mainstream American radio even more. Often I don't think this worked out too well, OMD's later music for instance.
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