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Drop Nineteens is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Dinosaur Jr., The Clash, The Go-Betweens, New Order and The Cure. Those roots explain a lot about how Drop Nineteens arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Swirlies, Fleeting Joys, Chapterhouse, My Bloody Valentine and Lilys, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Cranberries and Radiohead, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Drop Nineteens, reaching back through Dinosaur Jr. and forward to The Cranberries. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Drop Nineteens is an American shoegaze band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1990. The band was formed by Boston University classmates Greg Ackell and Chris Roof (drums), who recruited Paula Kelley, Motohiro Yasue (guitar) and Steve Zimmerman (bass). Ackell noted that the band was "the American outlier in a largely British scene."
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Drop Nineteens connections
Drop Nineteens grew out of Dinosaur Jr., The Clash, The Go-Betweens and New Order, shares an orbit with Swirlies, Fleeting Joys, Chapterhouse and My Bloody Valentine, went on to shape The Cranberries and Radiohead. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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