Various, Echo & The Bunnymen, Echo & The Bunnymen, China Crisis, China Crisis, Two Way Street, The Tambourines, The Hoovers, The Christians, Playing Fields, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

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.