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Smoking Popes

Smoking Popes is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Morrissey, Screeching Weasel, Green Day and Rancid. Those roots explain a lot about how Smoking Popes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Superdrag, Cheap Girls, Off with Their Heads, Superchunk and The Get Up Kids, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Lawrence Arms, Cheap Girls, Bayside, Pet Symmetry and Basement, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Smoking Popes, reaching back through Morrissey and forward to The Lawrence Arms. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Smoking Popes is an American pop punk band from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. They are composed of brothers Matt Caterer (bass), Josh Caterer and Eli Caterer and Mike Felumlee (drums).

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Smoking PopesMorrisseyScreeching WeaselGreen DayRancidThe Lawrence ArmsCheap GirlsBaysidePet SymmetryBasementFrom Here to InfirmarySuperdragCheap GirlsOff with Their HeadsSuperchunkThe Get Up KidsThe MenzingersBaysideThe Swellers

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Smoking Popes connections

Smoking Popes grew out of Morrissey, Screeching Weasel, Green Day and Rancid, shares an orbit with Superdrag, Cheap Girls, Off with Their Heads and Superchunk, went on to shape The Lawrence Arms, Cheap Girls, Bayside and Pet Symmetry. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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