Various, It Bites, Big Audio Dynamite, The Housemartins, Swing Out Sister, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, The Blow Monkeys, Erasure, Cutting Crew, Hollywood Beyond, Mel & Kim, Various, It Bites, Big Audio Dynamite, The Housemartins, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, The Blow Monkeys, Hollywood Beyond

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.