Various, The Kinks, The Waterboys, The Replacements, Lou Reed, Lesley Gore, Polly Perkins, Lynsey De Paul, Dana Gillespie, Amanda Lear, Goldfrapp, Handbag, Marie France, Wayne County, The Electric Chairs, Ezra Furman, Pansy Division, Jobriath, Starbuck, Tom Robinson Band, Marc Almond, Klaus Nomi

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.