Various, The Teardrop Explodes, Joy Division, The Fall, Spizzoil, Big In Japan, The Comsat Angels, Cabaret Voltaire, Tubeway Army, Fad Gadget, Big In Japan, The Damned, The Wall, The Go-Betweens, The Monochrome Set, The Passions, The Regents, Lene Lovich, Kirsty MacColl, The Rumour, Madness, The Beat, The Selecter

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.