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Mission of Burma is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of John Coltrane, Gang of Four, Wire, Sun Ra and James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Mission of Burma arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Wire, Minutemen, Firehose, Fugazi and Au Pairs, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pixies, Foo Fighters, The Replacements, Thurston Moore and Hüsker Dü, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Mission of Burma, reaching back through John Coltrane and forward to Pixies. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Mission of Burma connections
Mission of Burma grew out of John Coltrane, Gang of Four, Wire and Sun Ra, shares an orbit with Wire, Minutemen, Firehose and Fugazi, went on to shape Pixies, Foo Fighters, The Replacements and Thurston Moore. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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