Various, That Petrol Emotion, New Race, Alex Chilton, The Stooges, Richard Hell, The Fall, The Slickee Boys, Theatre Of Hate, Bad Brains, Motor Boys Motor, Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, James Williamson

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.