Various, The Damned, The Mekons, X-Ray Spex, Au Pairs, The Only Ones, Jonathan Richman, The Lurkers, Slaughter And The Dogs, Ian Dury, Radio Stars, The Fall, Suicide, Sham 69, UK Subs, The Vibrators, Alternative TV, Anti-Nowhere League, The Exploited, John Cooper Clarke, Patrik Fitzgerald

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Detroit Proto-Punk

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