Various, Robert Wyatt, Madness, Josi Without Colours, Cleaners From Venus, The Style Council, Anne Clark, Patrick Fitzgerald, Frank Chickens, Kalima, Shelleyan Orphan, Carla Lane, TV Smith, Chumbawamba, Captain Sensible, The Durutti Column

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.