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Poly Styrene

K-pop
K-popPunk rock

Poly Styrene is a K-pop and Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Sex Pistols. Those roots explain a lot about how Poly Styrene arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as X-Ray Spex, Grace Jones, Au Pairs, Adam and the Ants and Young Marble Giants, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U2, Everything But the Girl and Hercules and Love Affair, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Poly Styrene, reaching back through Sex Pistols and forward to U2. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Poly StyreneSex PistolsU2Everything But the G…Hercules and Love Af…X-Ray SpexGrace JonesAu PairsAdam and the AntsYoung Marble GiantsBuzzcocksThe UndertonesThe Slits

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Poly Styrene connections

Poly Styrene grew out of Sex Pistols, shares an orbit with X-Ray Spex, Grace Jones, Au Pairs and Adam and the Ants, went on to shape U2, Everything But the Girl and Hercules and Love Affair. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Poly Styrene

Roots1

Sounds and acts that shaped Poly Styrene.

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Kindred15

Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Poly Styrene.

Bands Poly Styrene shaped

Legacy3

Where the influence of Poly Styrene travelled next.

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