Various, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Beres Hammond, Zap Pow, Rico Rodriguez, Sugar Minott, Human Cargo, Toots & The Maytals, Black Uhuru, The Pioneers, Janet Kay, Chronixx, Tramline, The Normal, Quintessence, Nirvana, Baaba Maal, John Martyn, Spooky Tooth, U2, Free, John Grant

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.