Asian Kung-Fu Generation (アジアン・カンフー・ジェネレーション , Ajian Kanfū Jenerēshon , stylized as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION) is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan, in 1996.
 For nearly its entire career, the band has consisted of vocalist Masafumi Gotō, guitarist Kensuke Kita, bassist Takahiro Yamada, and drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi.
 Starting out as a college band, Asian Kung-Fu Generation released a series of independent EPs featuring lyrics mostly sung in English.
 In 2002, they released their major-label EP debut "Hōkai Amplifier", from that point singing their lyrics in Japanese.
 The band's musical style is influenced by seminal Western alternative rock acts as well as their own local Japanese indie-rock and punk scene.
 Their songs incorporate various aspects of the genres, most typically expressing fast tempos and prominent power chord guitar riffs in addition to rhythmic groove and emotional lyrics.
 Despite the indie nature of their music, the band has enjoyed worldwide commercial success in addition to critical acclaim.
 Asian Kung-Fu Generation has been cited as one of the best, most balanced modern rock bands to emerge from Japan in the 2000s.
Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash (vocals, guitar and saxophone), David J (bass guitar and vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums and synthesisers) after that group split in 1983.
 Ash and Haskins had recorded and performed in another band, Tones on Tail, between 1982 and 1984.
 Love and Rockets' fusion of underground rock music with elements of pop music provided an early catalyst for alternative rock.
 They released seven studio albums before breaking up in 1999 and reformed briefly in 2007 for a few live shows, before splitting again in 2009.
Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxford in 1989 around core members Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge.
 Between 1989 and 1998, the band released four studio albums and numerous EPs and singles despite a considerable flux of members, managers, and record labels.
 By 1993 the band’s lineup had settled with Franklin on vocals/guitar, Hartridge on guitar, Jez Hindmarsh on drums, and Steve George on bass.
 They had emerged with a heavier rock sound than their shoegaze contemporaries, and over the next five years it evolved to include elements of psychedelia, classic pop, and indie rock.
 In 2008, the band reunited for touring purposes.
 They released their first new single in fifteen years in September 2013, and their first full-length album in seventeen years in March 2015.
The Numbskulls (aka HyperzombieNumbSkulls) were an influential acid house band from Boulder, Colorado in the early to mid-1980s.
 Influenced by the Madchester style of music of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, as well as punk/new wave bands New Order and The Cure, the Numbskulls catalogue included whimsical lyrics juxtaposed against repetitive keyboards, trance-like drumming, melodic vocals and quirky punk guitar hooks.
 They referred to their musical style as "danceable dirge".
 The band was a four piece with band leader, Mike Harris Bacidore on keyboards, bass, and vocals, Mateo Juarez (Matthew Harris Sullivan) on lead guitar and vocals, Mike Tomich on guitars and vocals, and Scuz Roland (Don Adydan) on drums.
 The Numbskulls were founded by Bacidore and Sullivan in Longmont, Colorado in 1983.
 The band often dressed up in leisure suits and rubber masks, reggae attire, or as hippies and played under a variety of inane monikers, most notably "Happy World Beat" — thus, only their most rabid fans were aware of their true identity.
 They enjoyed playing techno punk jams, an antithetical punk style whereby their songs would often last fifteen minutes or more and were a spontaneous combination of funk, punk, reggae, jazz, techno, and new wave.
 The Madchester style to which their music is often associated was not yet popular in the United States, and as fervent followers, the Numbskulls ushered the era of ecstasy laden rave culture of the late eighties in the Boulder and Denver area of Colorado.
 The band released several underground albums including "HyperzombieNumbSkuLLs" (1983), "Rubberface" (1984), "Big Bowel Movement" (1985), "Get in the Groove" (1985), and "Red Light" (1986).
Muse are an English alternative rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon by Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitars, piano), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, backing vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion).
 The band have released seven studio albums: "Showbiz" (1999), "Origin of Symmetry" (2001), "Absolution" (2003), "Black Holes and Revelations" (2006), "The Resistance" (2009), "The 2nd Law" (2012) and "Drones" (2015). "
Supermassive Black Hole", the first single from the band's fourth album "Black Holes and Revelations", is Muse's highest charting single, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart and #6 on "Billboard"'s Hot Modern Rock Tracks.
 The band's fourth studio album, "Black Holes and Revelations", has been their highest-selling album, with over three and a half million copies sold worldwide.
Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester.
 Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Mark Day (guitar), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Gary Whelan (drums).
 Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer/percussionist.
 Rowetta joined the band as a guest vocalist in 1990.
The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979.
 Initially a punk rock band, they are considered pioneers of alternative rock.
 The band was composed of the guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bass guitarist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars for most of its career.
 Following several acclaimed albums, including "Let It Be" and "Tim", Bob Stinson left the band in 1986, and Slim Dunlap joined as lead guitarist.
 Steve Foley replaced Mars in 1990.
 Towards the end of the band's career, Westerberg exerted more control over the creative output.
 The group disbanded in 1991, with the members eventually pursuing various projects.
 A reunion was announced on October 3, 2012.
 The Replacements never had significant commercial success, except for "I'll Be You", which hit number 1 on the "Billboard" Alt Rock chart, but they influenced numerous alternative rock acts.
Nothing but Thieves are an English alternative rock band formed in 2012 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
 They consist of lead vocalist and guitarist Conor Mason, guitarist Joe Langridge-Brown, guitarist and keyboardist Dominic Craik, bassist Philip Blake, and drummer James Price.
 In 2014, they signed to RCA Records.
 Their style of music has been compared to the likes of Foals, The Neighbourhood, and Civil Twilight, and they have been played on alternative, modern rock and active rock radio.
The Sundays (stylized as The SUNDAYS on all releases) are an English alternative rock band.
 The band formed in the late 1980s and released three albums in the 1990s.
Freeze the Atlantic are an English alternative rock band based in Farnborough, Hampshire.
 The band were formed in late 2008 by Guy Davis, Jon Pearce and Andy Gilmour following the hiatus of both Reuben and Hundred Reasons.
 The group's name is taken from a song by English alternative rock band Cable from their 1997 album, "When Animals Attack".

Question: What English alternative rock band formed in 1980 and influenced The Numbskulls?
Answer: Happy Mondays