Various, Simple Minds, Cabaret Voltaire, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Grauzone, The Associates, Patrick Cowley, Isabelle Mayereau, Chas Jankel, Peter Gabriel, The Walker Brothers, Thomas Leer, Daryl Hall, Harald Grosskopf, Robert Fripp, Areski Belkacem, Brigitte Fontaine, Basil Kirchin, Holger Czukay

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.