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The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of The Velvet Underground, and is now sometimes classed as \"protopunk\". It pointed the way towards much of the punk rock, new wave, alternative and indie rock music of later decades. Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers, contained stylistically unprecedented[citation needed] songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, and love of life and the USA.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater, between 1976 and 1988, Richman used the name Modern Lovers for a variety of backing bands, always billed as \"Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.\" These bands were quieter and featured more low-key, often near-childlike, songs, as Richman drew on folk-rock and other genres. 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