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Young Marble Giants is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. Those roots explain a lot about how Young Marble Giants arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Josef K, Au Pairs, Mission of Burma, The Monochrome Set and Wire, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Joy Crookes, Étienne Daho, Weekend, The Communards and Everything But the Girl, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Young Marble Giants, reaching back through Kraftwerk and forward to Joy Crookes. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Young Marble Giants connections
Young Marble Giants grew out of Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, shares an orbit with Josef K, Au Pairs, Mission of Burma and The Monochrome Set, went on to shape Joy Crookes, Étienne Daho, Weekend and The Communards. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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