The roots of indie pop

Strawberry Switchblade, We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It, Talulah Gosh... my, I have been listening to loads of unfashionable music lately.
These bands were (mostly) critically mauled during their brief stabs at pop stardom back in the 1980s.
I found some BBC radio sessions of the bands online and I have been listening to them on the iPod. With their fuzzy guitar blasts and -- yes, twee -- girly vocals, I can see where these bands would have driven some critics to the wall.
In retrospect, however, these bands and their sound were so instrumental in helping to form the indiepop sound now all the rage.
I hear echoes of these great bands in Tiger Trap, The Softies and Black Tambourine.