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The Undertones is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Small Faces, The Adverts, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Orange Juice. Those roots explain a lot about how The Undertones arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Adverts, Generation X and Ian Dury, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U2, Green Day, Rites of Spring, The Queers and Orange Juice, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around The Undertones, reaching back through Small Faces and forward to U2. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Undertones connections
The Undertones grew out of Small Faces, The Adverts, Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks, shares an orbit with Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Adverts and Generation X, went on to shape U2, Green Day, Rites of Spring and The Queers. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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