Various, Sammy Hagar, April Wine, Riot, Max Webster, Prism, The Motels, Red Rider, Moon Martin, Mink Deville, Billy Squier

America Strikes Back

1980 · Hard Rock · Capitol Records

UK · SS 5

Tracklist

Credits

Producer
Nick Blagona, Myles Goodwyn, Billy Arnell, Steve Leob, Max Webster, Terry Brown, Bruce Fairbairn, John Carter, Michael James Jackson, Steve Douglas, Eddy Offord, Billy Squier
Written by
Sammy Hagar, Myles Goodwyn, Guy Speranza, Mark Reale, Kim Mitchell, Pye Dubois, Lindsay Mitchell, Martha Davis, Ken Greer, Tom Cochrane, Moon Martin, Willy DeVille, Billy Squier
Hard Rock

Where it leads

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

Where to find it

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