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X-Ray Spex

X-Ray Spex is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of 999, Sex Pistols, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and Tom Robinson Band. Those roots explain a lot about how X-Ray Spex arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, The Slits, The Adverts and Buzzcocks, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Adamski, Sleater-Kinney, Client, Red Krayola and Cheap Perfume, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around X-Ray Spex, reaching back through 999 and forward to Adamski. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

X-Ray Spex were an English punk rock band formed in 1976 in London. They were led by Poly Styrene, who formed the band after watching the Sex Pistols live. Styrene was one of the most distinctive personalities in the British punk movement, because of her singing style and atypical and unorthodox appearance, taking influences from reggae as well as punk. Her lyrics primarily dealt with anti-consumerism and anti-capitalism, and were an influence on the 1990s riot grrrl movement. The line-up also included saxophone, which was little used by other punk bands.

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X-Ray Spex999Sex PistolsJohnny Kidd & The Pi…Tom Robinson BandAdamskiSleater-KinneyClientRed KrayolaCheap PerfumeAgent OrangeTransvision VampAnikaBikini KillBratmobileThe SlitsThe AdvertsBuzzcocksMommy Long LegsThe UndertonesIan Dury

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X-Ray Spex connections

X-Ray Spex grew out of 999, Sex Pistols, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and Tom Robinson Band, shares an orbit with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, The Slits and The Adverts, went on to shape Adamski, Sleater-Kinney, Client and Red Krayola. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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