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A Flock of Seagulls is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of The Stranglers, Level 42, Animotion and Wang Chung. Those roots explain a lot about how A Flock of Seagulls arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thompson Twins, Ultravox, The Fixx, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and ABC, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Blinding Lights, Bowling for Soup, Madonna, Ministry and Odisseo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around A Flock of Seagulls, reaching back through The Stranglers and forward to Blinding Lights. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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A Flock of Seagulls connections
A Flock of Seagulls grew out of The Stranglers, Level 42, Animotion and Wang Chung, shares an orbit with Thompson Twins, Ultravox, The Fixx and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, went on to shape Blinding Lights, Bowling for Soup, Madonna and Ministry. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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