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Drop Nineteens, 1991: The lost album of shoegaze nostalgia

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B ack in the 90s I would watch a Nickelodeon show, The Adventures of Pete & Pete . It was a sensitively aware show that respected its child and youth audiences while showcasing childhood moments of growing up in the adult world, set in a fictional middle-class suburb following two red-head brothers (both named Pete), mixed up in quirky offbeat stories, with equally quirky characters, and fittingly quirky humour. It also had some great music (and musician cameos) too. One of the bands I'd learn about reading end credits whose music was featured, were the Drop Nineteens. Over time as accessibility to music became easier (controversially) to download/obtain through the internet boom, I was able to get bits and pieces of their catalogue after the band was well and truly a graveyard-band by the time I was onto The Adventures of Pete & Pete . As the nostalgia tide of the 80s era from the late 2000s-to-late-2010s subsided, the 90s nostalgia wave hit late 2010s, and is still at hig...