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The Dickies is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Toy Dolls, Devo, Iggy Pop, The Stooges and The Damned. Those roots explain a lot about how The Dickies arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dead Boys, Buzzcocks, The Muffs, The Undertones and Lagwagon, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Green Day, The Queers, Cliff Martinez, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Joey Ramone, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around The Dickies, reaching back through Toy Dolls 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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The Dickies connections
The Dickies grew out of Toy Dolls, Devo, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, shares an orbit with Dead Boys, Buzzcocks, The Muffs and The Undertones, went on to shape Green Day, The Queers, Cliff Martinez and Voodoo Glow Skulls. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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