Various, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Leather Nun, Danielle Dax, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Motorcycle Boy, Fields Of The Nephilim, The Shamen, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Happy Mondays, The Brilliant Corners, The Cookie Crew, Hotline, Erasure, Ghost Dance, The Sugarcubes, Throwing Muses, My Bloody Valentine, The Wedding Present, Joy Division

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.