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Barenaked Ladies is a Alternative rock and Rap act. Their sound grew out of Ben Folds Five, Guster, Kim Mitchell, Bethany Joy Lenz and Violent Femmes. Those roots explain a lot about how Barenaked Ladies arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Better Than Ezra, Crash Test Dummies, Hootie & The Blowfish, Great Big Sea and Guster, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The All-American Rejects, The Toyes, Origami Angel, Howie Day and The Proclaimers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Barenaked Ladies, reaching back through Ben Folds Five and forward to The All-American Rejects. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Barenaked Ladies connections
Barenaked Ladies grew out of Ben Folds Five, Guster, Kim Mitchell and Bethany Joy Lenz, shares an orbit with Better Than Ezra, Crash Test Dummies, Hootie & The Blowfish and Great Big Sea, went on to shape The All-American Rejects, The Toyes, Origami Angel and Howie Day. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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