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The Dead Boys is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Ramones and Syndicate of Sound. Those roots explain a lot about how The Dead Boys arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Stiv Bators, New York Dolls, The Adverts, The Heartbreakers and Buzzcocks, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Offspring, Plasmatics, The Lords of the New Church and Disfear, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around The Dead Boys, reaching back through Ramones and forward to The Offspring. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Dead Boys connections
The Dead Boys grew out of Ramones and Syndicate of Sound, shares an orbit with Stiv Bators, New York Dolls, The Adverts and The Heartbreakers, went on to shape The Offspring, Plasmatics, The Lords of the New Church and Disfear. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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