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Chumbawamba is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Heresy, Closer, The Fall, Wire and Adam and the Ants. Those roots explain a lot about how Chumbawamba arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Levellers, Billy Bragg, EMF, Sugar Ray and New Radicals, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Aus-Rotten, Locomondo, Bully, Sarah and the Safe Word and Napalm Death, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Chumbawamba, reaching back through Heresy and forward to Aus-Rotten. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Chumbawamba connections
Chumbawamba grew out of Heresy, Closer, The Fall and Wire, shares an orbit with Levellers, Billy Bragg, EMF and Sugar Ray, went on to shape Aus-Rotten, Locomondo, Bully and Sarah and the Safe Word. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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