Various, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Wah!, Bauhaus, Nightmares In Wax, Woodhead Monroe, Spizzenergi, Holly And The Italians, The Associates, It's Immaterial, The Frantic Elevators, The Q Tips, Cabaret Voltaire, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Fad Gadget, Modern English, The Tea Set, Swell Maps, Dead Kennedys, The Adicts, Normil Hawaiians, The Fall

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.