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Mr. Children is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Echoes, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Everyday, Katyusha and Takeshi Kobayashi. Those roots explain a lot about how Mr. Children arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bump of Chicken, My Little Lover, B'z, back number and Kan, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mabanua, AKB48, Ayaka, Tadayoshi Okura and Orange Range, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Mr. Children, reaching back through Echoes and forward to Mabanua. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Mr. Children connections
Mr. Children grew out of Echoes, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Everyday, Katyusha, shares an orbit with Bump of Chicken, My Little Lover, B'z and back number, went on to shape Mabanua, AKB48, Ayaka and Tadayoshi Okura. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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