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Stiff Little Fingers

Punk rock
Punk rock

Stiff Little Fingers is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of The Alarm, The Vibrators, Deep Purple, The Clash and Elvis Costello. Those roots explain a lot about how Stiff Little Fingers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, Sham 69, The Rezillos and The Jam, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Green Day, The Wall, Tom DeLonge, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Undertones, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Stiff Little Fingers, reaching back through The Alarm and forward to Green Day. 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
Stiff Little FingersThe AlarmThe VibratorsDeep PurpleThe ClashElvis CostelloHighway StarToy DollsThe Radio One SessionsGreen DayThe WallTom DeLongeThe Mighty Mighty Bo…The UndertonesBlue LinesAdolescentsU.S. BombsThe UndertonesBuzzcocksSham 69The RezillosThe JamDead BoysThe AdvertsGeneration X

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Stiff Little Fingers connections

Stiff Little Fingers grew out of The Alarm, The Vibrators, Deep Purple and The Clash, shares an orbit with The Undertones, Buzzcocks, Sham 69 and The Rezillos, went on to shape Green Day, The Wall, Tom DeLonge and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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