Various, Herb Alpert, The Police, The Police, Pablo Cruise, Pablo Cruise, Joe Jackson, Joe Jackson, Herb Alpert, Styx, Styx, Supertramp, Supertramp, Rita Coolidge, Rita Coolidge

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.