Various, Scritti Politti, Propaganda, The Psychedelic Furs, Big Audio Dynamite, Pixies, Bauhaus, Spear Of Destiny, Bronski Beat, Dead Or Alive, The Lotus Eaters, Prefab Sprout, Bangles, The Primitives, Westworld, Theatre Of Hate, Adam And The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Altered Images, Toyah, Haysi Fantayzee, Men Without Hats, King, Furniture, Ultravox, John Foxx, Gary Numan, The Art Of Noise, Landscape, Blancmange, Howard Jones

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.