Complex sentence: Jim & William Reid quit their jobs in 1980 and formed a band, taking influences from the noise of German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten with the pop sound of the Shangri-Las.
Split into simpler sentences: Jim & William Reid quit their jobs in 1980. Eventually, they imagined music that fused the noise of German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten with the pop sound of the Shangri-Las.