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Everything But the Girl is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Young Marble Giants, Markus Schulz, Poly Styrene, The Todd Terry Project and Paul Weller. Those roots explain a lot about how Everything But the Girl arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Saint Etienne, Esthero, Lamb, Moloko and Massive Attack, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Autumn, The Housemartins, Bebel Gilberto, Adam F and True Faith, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Everything But the Girl, reaching back through Young Marble Giants and forward to Autumn. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Everything but the Girl are an English pop duo formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer, songwriter, composer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, composer, producer and singer Ben Watt. The group's early works have been categorized as sophisti-pop with jazz influences before undergoing an electronic music turn following the worldwide success of the 1994 hit single "Missing", remixed by Todd Terry.
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Everything But the Girl connections
Everything But the Girl grew out of Young Marble Giants, Markus Schulz, Poly Styrene and The Todd Terry Project, shares an orbit with Saint Etienne, Esthero, Lamb and Moloko, went on to shape Autumn, The Housemartins, Bebel Gilberto and Adam F. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Todd Terryartist
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