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The Toasters is a Ska act. Their sound grew out of Bad Brains, Prince Buster, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Beat and Joe Jackson. Those roots explain a lot about how The Toasters arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Pietasters, Hepcat, Catch 22, The Aggrolites and Bad Manners, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Less Than Jake, The Supervillains, King Django, Roger Lima and Fishbone, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around The Toasters, reaching back through Bad Brains and forward to Less Than Jake. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Toasters connections
The Toasters grew out of Bad Brains, Prince Buster, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Beat, shares an orbit with The Pietasters, Hepcat, Catch 22 and The Aggrolites, went on to shape Less Than Jake, The Supervillains, King Django and Roger Lima. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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