Various, Nena, Wire Train, Big Audio Dynamite, The Alarm, Spear Of Destiny, Lone Justice, King, Prefab Sprout, Wang Chung, Dead Or Alive, R.E.M., The Clash

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Boston Alternative

College radio, cheap rehearsal rooms and loud guitars: the US underground's most literate, least glamorous engine room.