Various, Al Stewart, Midge Ure, Big Country, Jethro Tull, Julia Fordham, Elvis Costello, Madness, Tanita Tikaram, Voice Of The Beehive, All About Eve, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Iron Maiden

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.