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Toy Dolls is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Angelic Upstarts and Cockney Rejects. Those roots explain a lot about how Toy Dolls arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sham 69, The Business, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Vice Squad and NOFX, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Stranglers, The Adverts, Stiff Little Fingers, NOFX and The Dickies, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Toy Dolls, reaching back through Angelic Upstarts and forward to The Stranglers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Toy Dolls connections
Toy Dolls grew out of Angelic Upstarts and Cockney Rejects, shares an orbit with Sham 69, The Business, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and Vice Squad, went on to shape The Stranglers, The Adverts, Stiff Little Fingers and NOFX. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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