Anyone remember the Drop Nineteens?

Freaked them out by telling them 'you're a fast crowd' for no apparent reason. Pleasant enough sound, albeit suspiciously generic.

Felt let down though when I saw them at the ... Mean Fiddler I think ? .. straight after "Delaware". The music was ok, but they turned me off with the way they picked out compatriots in the audience and spent their entire intersong banter doing 'Hey, where are you from' exchanges with them. Like, thanks for coming to our non- existent tour stop, o imperialist gods.

- Jacques

Eddy

we miss you guys (even if Paula is a sell-out) she can at least do one more summer for "US!" We LOVE you still tho Paula!!! ;oP

oh! so sincerely,
"Michael Andrew Miles!"
a.k.a. Sub-Angel

#mp3^ShoeGazer ::: on dul-nut IRC (keeping the spirit alive with the ONLY shoegaze chan down there!) well @ least I'm tryin ,.. what r u doin?¿

Umm, can you please define sell-out? I mean, not still playing music in a fringe style that wasn't her first love in the first place, but having the balls to keep on making wonderful, unique, and ever-evolving music in the midst of the current lackluster scene with very little financial remuneration constitutes selling out?

And, no, that dude did not make out with Paula. Fact.

- Jacques

Still love this song but god the video is sooooo horrible and "90s"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4oCboj39jo

I never knew there was a video for this. My favorite song of theirs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM0ThAxl9FQ

i love that album

http://squarecottoncandy.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/drop-nineteens-oral-history-as-told-by.html

Interesting interview with some ex-members. You even find out who Phil is from "Kick The Tragedy"

Greg Ackell still remains an enigma.

I remember them from an episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete".

A little late but here's a 2018 piece on them as well:

https://bostonhassle.com/five-ex-drop-nineteens-tell-their-story/

Now having a pair of mismatched sounding records in stores and Hot Rod as a challenger, Drop Nineteens hit the road with in support of National Coma with a setlist Koeplin likened to shuffling the deck. “ I don’t know if I could go back and listen to that set now, what that must’ve sounded like… to go from ‘Winona’ to ‘7/8’,” opined Zimmerman.

Oh cringe, they didn't!!

Whuh...they're back!

https://www.stereogum.com/2231913/drop-nineteens-reunion-new-album-hard-light/music/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuy3nPM4xak

there’s no longer a gap in the 21st century

Key info:

The rest of Drop Nineteens’ current incarnation is effectively the Delaware lineup — Ackell, Kelley, Zimmerman and guitarist Motohiro “Moto” Yasue — minus OG drummer Chris Roof, whose role is amicably filled by National Coma-era drummer Pete Koeplin.

Reissues planned and apparently East and West Coast dates are lined up?

Ah there they are, end of the piece:

October 10 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis w/ Greg Mendez
October 11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer w/ Horse Jumper Of Love
October 12 – Boston, MA @ The Paradise w/ Greg Mendez
October 13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw w/ Greg Mendez
October 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco w/ Winter
October 22 – Oakland, CA @ The New Parish w/ Winter

my kid of all people suggested we go see them. I was like "I vaguely remember this band"

funny to read way upthread about people seeing Winona on the Chart Show on ITV which I also did when I was about 15, and I loved that song and bought the album and that was the only good song on it

where is the zoomer hype for this band supposedly happening because i'm not even seeing rym be particularly fond of them which is what i'd expect for an obscure shoegaze band i'd never heard of before

yeah I'd be surprised if they got much zoomer love mostly because most of their stuff isn't that shoegazey and it's also rubbish.

i get confused about how announcements work, yeah they've been posting updates about their work new album for a while, and apparently there's going to be an official release of the "mayfield" demos as well... one track of it got played on KEXP in april of '22, a rip is on YT. anyway, yeah, looking forward to the new record and "mayfield" getting an official release... i know one can only expect so much from demos but the bootleg copies sound like shit!

Mayfield is actually pretty good!

Very popular with Gen Z despite only having 1.5 good songs.

new Drop Nineteens >>>> new Slowdive

You fiend. (But understandable.)

my preorder is on its way! excited to give it a focused listen

was so excited to see that they covered some golden-era The Clientele! A favorite song for sure

Not enough talk about this. Beautiful record from start to finish.

A shame this wasn't the actual follow up at the time but almost everyone ditched that sound by '93

And now a release of their 1991 demos!

https://wharfcat.lnk.to/PcIvNYOI

when are they going to finally reschedule their bay area show

Boy you got that right.

they did come down to a pub in oakland after cancelling the last one and sold copies of those demos since they were a tour-only thing at the time, so that was cool. but their reasons for cancelling were pretty weird.

unfortunately it's not the complete stuff from the tape... would've loved to hear their version of "here comes the sun" in listenable quality :)

honestly i thought it was already out... maybe it was just a RSD release?

it was a tour-only pressing

I found that tape at Breakdown Records in Bayside a million years ago, I thought a Drop Nineteens demo tape was a real find. It was $2, maybe I could flip it.
Then I went on the internet and found out that everyone already has that tape, even people who never liked the Drop Nineteens have that tape, even people who didn't know they had that tape had a copy somewhere in a dusty old closet, it's like Thriller or Dark Side of the Moon, even if you go into the deepest recesses of the Amazon jungle someone will whip out that Drop Nineteens demo tape at a party.