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Mission of Burma is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Wire, Sun Ra, James Brown, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. 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 Guided by Voices, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Foo Fighters, The Replacements, Thurston Moore, Hüsker Dü and Buffalo Tom, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Mission of Burma, reaching back through Wire and forward to Foo Fighters. 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 Wire, Sun Ra, James Brown and John Cage, shares an orbit with Wire, Minutemen, Firehose and Fugazi, went on to shape Foo Fighters, The Replacements, Thurston Moore and Hüsker Dü. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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