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The Muffs is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Kim Wilde, Ronnie Spector, The 5.6.7.8's and Kids in America. Those roots explain a lot about how The Muffs arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Queers, Letters to Cleo, The Vandals, X-Ray Spex and No Use for a Name, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sum 41, Green Day, Dookie, Sweet Children and The Queers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around The Muffs, reaching back through Kim Wilde and forward to Sum 41. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Muffs connections
The Muffs grew out of Kim Wilde, Ronnie Spector, The 5.6.7.8's and Kids in America, shares an orbit with The Queers, Letters to Cleo, The Vandals and X-Ray Spex, went on to shape Sum 41, Green Day, Dookie and Sweet Children. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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