Various, Big Country, Fiat Lux, Niagara Calls, The Special AKA, Wang Chung, Kudos, Mezzoforte, The Danse Society, Snowy White, The Pale Fountains, Thompson Twins

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.