Editing Shudder to Think (section)

==Musical style==
The band, which has been classified as [[post-hardcore]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/post-hardcore-d12962/artists |title=Explore: Post-Hardcore (Top Artists) |work=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=March 18, 2011 |archive-date=December 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101209234315/http://allmusic.com/explore/style/post-hardcore-d12962/artists |url-status=dead }}</ref> embraced "pop influences and a skewed sense of songwriting"<ref name="AllmusicBio">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/shudder-to-think-p14249/biography |title=Shudder to Think - Biography |author=Bush, John |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=April 5, 2011}}</ref> while coming from a [[hardcore punk]] background "courtesy of their affiliation" with Dischord.<ref name="AllmusicBio"/> Reviewer Charles Spano characterized some of the band's work as the result of the group skewing "their pop brilliance with [[Ric Ocasek]] grooves, a [[David Bowie|[David] Bowie]] and [...] [[Roxy Music]] [[glam rock|glam]] bent [...], and the theatrics of [[Queen (band)|Queen]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/curse-spells-voodoo-mooses-r505708/review |title=Curse, Spells, Voodoo, Moses - Shudder to Think - Review |author=Spano, Charles |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=March 20, 2011}}</ref>

In the 2018 book ''Long Live Queen'', when DJ/VJ [[Matt Pinfield]] was asked if [[Queen (band)|Queen]] was an influence on 1990s alt-rock, he replied:<blockquote>"Look at a band like Shudder to Think and a song like 'X-French Tee Shirt,' which was such a great song, because [the middle part] was one note, and he was singing two octaves over that."<ref>Prato, Greg (2018). ''Long Live Queen: Rock Royalty Discuss Freddie, Brian, John & Roger''. p. 154</ref></blockquote>

In an interview from 1995, [[James Iha]] of [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] praised the band's originality, saying: <blockquote>"Shudder to Think, I think, is a wholly original, amazing rock band. They're a rock band but they're totally different than what you've heard before in the guitar playing, the drumming, the bass, singing, it's all amazing. If you listen to a Shudder to Think record, you might be able to point to a few references but there's no way you could tag that band. And they're good, they write good songs. They're totally original."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.starla.org/articles/atnj.htm |title=Smashing Pumpkin James Iha Speaks His Mind, December 1995 |author=Michael Goldberg|website=Starla.org|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref></blockquote>