Various, Two Guys, The Raincoats, The Nighthawks, George Smith, Fleetwood Mac, The Siegel-Schwall Band, The Doctors Children, Country Joe McDonald, The Beau Brummels, Del Shannon, The Knickerbockers, P.P. Arnold

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.