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No Surprises is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of R.E.M., The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Louis Armstrong and Bill Callahan. Those roots explain a lot about how No Surprises arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Karma Police, Everything in Its Right Place and Where Is My Mind?, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Amanda Palmer, Roman GianArthur and Regina Spektor, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around No Surprises, reaching back through R.E.M. and forward to Amanda Palmer. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"No Surprises" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), in 1998.
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No Surprises connections
No Surprises grew out of R.E.M., The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye and Louis Armstrong, shares an orbit with Karma Police, Everything in Its Right Place and Where Is My Mind?, went on to shape Amanda Palmer, Roman GianArthur and Regina Spektor. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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