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The Primitives

Indie rock
Indie rock

The Primitives is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of Zombina and the Skeletones, Pick Withers, Morrissey and Toni Basil. Those roots explain a lot about how The Primitives arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Transvision Vamp, The House of Love, The Wedding Present, Throwing Muses and Kirsty MacColl, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Always, The Sugarcubes, COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS, My Bloody Valentine and Alvvays, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around The Primitives, reaching back through Zombina and the Skeletones and forward to Always. 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
The PrimitivesZombina and the Skel…Pick WithersMorrisseyToni BasilAlwaysThe SugarcubesCOALTAR OF THE DEEPERSMy Bloody ValentineAlvvaysSo High SchoolThe Soup DragonsThe Wedding PresentTransvision VampThe House of LoveThe Wedding PresentThrowing MusesKirsty MacCollThe VaselinesThe Soup DragonsThe Alarm

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The Primitives grew out of Zombina and the Skeletones, Pick Withers, Morrissey and Toni Basil, shares an orbit with Transvision Vamp, The House of Love, The Wedding Present and Throwing Muses, went on to shape Always, The Sugarcubes, COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS and My Bloody Valentine. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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