Slade

Play It Loud

1971 · Hard Rock · Polydor

UK · 2383 026

Credits

Producer: Chas Chandler
Written by: Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder, James Griffin, Robb Royer, Mann And Weil, Dave Hill, Neil Innes

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.