Various, Men Without Hats, Men At Work, Scritti Politti, Simple Minds, Simple Minds, The Clash, Animotion, New Order, New Order, Madness, Bangles, Level 42, Heaven 17, The Human League, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Front 242, Dead Or Alive, File 13, Cyndi Lauper, Berlin

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.