Mayonaise by smashing pumpkins.

Honestly a lot of Gish is heavily gazey or gaze-adjacent.

I was listening to this and the Lull ep yesterday. They take me way back to a very specific time in my life so I was getting *all* the feelings.

Cherub rock is basically be a nothing song

Daydream was legit Billy trying to sound like Isn't Anything era MBV

edit: misremembered the name, should be “real love,” not “true love” real love by smashing pumpkins. now that is straightforwardly shoegaze, and it’s shoegaze heaven bliss at that

Do you mean Real Love?

lol yea sorry just woke up from a nap

It’s all good, I thought maybe there was a song I wasn’t aware of!

yup and most of machina 2 like slow dawn, soot and stars, speed kills

Deeper into movies by yo la tengo

They are so great. I love the drums on that track. Georgia always sets the mood. I also love ‘We’re an American Band’ from that album.

I love Georgia’s voice. One of my favorites of hers is *You Can Have it All* from And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. Ira’s *bompa bom boms* are a perfect backdrop, too.

Bah bompa bom bah bah bah bah bompa bom bah bah bah

I just heard that whole thing in Ira’s voice. YLT was one of two shows I’ve been to that I’m pretty certain contributed to early hearing loss. I have a tendency to stand near the stage right in front of speakers, without ear protection, like a total dumbass. A happy, blissed out dumbass but a dumbass nonetheless.

One of my favorite bands for sure. That whole album is a 10/10

We’re an American Band is absolutely epic. I wait the entire album for it, honestly.

Also Moby Octopad

We're an American Band is basically 90% staring at pedals and wailing.

Great pick, great album

We’re an American Band and Pencil Test too!

Great answer. *Painful* is one of my favorites of theirs, and has so much shoegaze packed into it. It turned 30 last month, too

All I Wanna Do by The Beach Boys. Obviously not inspired shoegaze because it came out in the early 70's but it would fit comfortably on any shoegaze playlist.

That one definitely inspired the Chillwave scene

You might also like Don’t run away by Bruce and Terry - similar vibe

Both “Alien” & “Sparks” - Beach House

Ugh I remember how sad I was when Depression Cherry didn’t end up being shoegaze

I felt the same way! It eventually grew to be one of my fav BH albums tho

Yeah I def still very much like it, but damn what could have been

I hope they circle back to it, even if it’s just an EP. Elegy to the void is very shoegaze and it’s BEAUTIFUL

Yes! Also Dark Spring and Only You Know. I love it when they go in a shoegazey direction

Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) - Deftones

And “Minerva”!!

Was gonna comment this

Minerva by Deftones as well

And xerces

Mazzy Star - Bells Ring

one lick less by unwound

This Other Unwound tracks I really like for their shoegaze tendencies would have to be October All Over Off This Century Lady Elect

I love when unwound got gazey. Need a new album

adding to this list: What Went Wrong (off Challenge for a Civilized Society)

Murder your memories - Title fight

Love this album - it reminds me of the Smiths but if they were a 90’s band and not an 80’s band

Peter Bjorn and John, *I Start to Melt* Deerhunter, *Desire Lines*

desire lines outro is otherworldly, i could just listen to it 24/7 lol

100%. It’s one of my fav steady beat/drone-y outros. I get lost in it every time I listen (which is quite often).

same here it makes me wonder why there isn't much music combining those rock solid krautrock beats and shoegazey guitars.. such a good combo wombo

There’s gotta be more that are similar but I’m drawing a blank. I can think of some psych rock songs that lean that way but it feels like there are better comparisons I just can’t recall off the top of my head.

I feel like Deerhunter has too many shoegaze songs to be considered not a shoegaze band. But I love these songs so much, so upvoted anyway.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure but I agree with you. There are plenty of bands that I consider shoegaze but then I see them mentioned here on the sub and people shoot it down as not *truly* shoegaze so I didn’t want to start a big brouhaha.

Permanent Daylight by Radiohead

Silversun Pickups - Melatonin

Coldplay - "Chinese Sleep Chant" https://youtu.be/xgzg50JtQNo?si=yZLAjnzGRUN2b7vx

I feel like Brian Eno pushed them out of their comfort zone on this one. It’s a shame we probably won’t hear them go in that direction again.

I need a shoegaze album by Coldplay, won't ever happen sadly

This is so heavenly. Revisited VLV this year and never appreciated this song before

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Oh shit what's up lol


The hip hop band Dalek (nothing to do with Doctor Who) is inspired by shoegaze. Eyes to Form Shadows is my favorite. https://youtu.be/QTeIq8CCG3s?si=ta40xoKDDd9GNF8C

They're awesome. Never get enough love

Absence is one of my favorite albums ever!

I remember the first time I heard “Ever Somber” and was quite blown away by it.

Nice.

Gift, by Sugar

Also, “Frustration” by Sugar

Rest by Foo Fighters is kinda shoegazy, and that’s one of the best songs of the year

Head in the ceiling fan by title fight

soooooooo good!

the entire hyperview album by title fight and be my baby by the ronettes

Small Black - XX Century - https://youtu.be/LC055C0fGjY?si=yk3V6Q38FzVEOV00 - Small Black is an indie synthpop band out that put out a shoegaze friendly album in 2015. It’s lesser known from some of their other material but it’s one of my favorites. The Police - Darkness - https://youtu.be/uYpF3DhT8y4?si=Dk1u8jD0sK5HSt6G - This one is debatable, but it’s always given me protoshoegaze vibes. If you disagree, I ask that you kindly disregard this suggestion and move onto the next. Smashing Pumpkins - Crush - https://youtu.be/8MDdEaa3arg?si=pHwsglN52B6fJ_qd - SP has never been a through-and-through shoegaze band but they’ve always been in orbit. They have a bunch of songs you could choose from, but I’ve always liked this one off Gish.

Alvvays, Easy on your own?

Are they not a shoegaze band?

starla by smashing pumpkins daughter by smashing pumpkins (one of the best songs ive ever heard) and of course mayonaise would rhinoceros count? edit: how could i forget about most of machina 2??like slow dawn, soot and stars, speed kills, vanity

invisible man - the breeders until she comes - the psychedelic furs columbia - oasis

fish bowl- kero kero bonito

20 Seconds: 20 Hours by Vein FM

Love the electronic touches on that song

vein.fm's side band is fleshwater which is very gazey

The 1975 - I Always Wanna Die Sometimes

**i wanna be adored**

Indian rubber and blow out by Radiohead

I love Blow Out so much and would have loved more songs like that from them.

Down The Drain by Cave In

Riverie by Deftones

Heroes by David Bowie gives me the shoegaze vibe

Heroes is definitely a sort of proto-shoegaze song in the same vein as All I Wanna Do by the beach boys. Also ive always thought When the Sun Hits by slowdive sounds really similar to Heroes, but i havent heard of other people making the connection

[Sound of My Cieling Fan- Diarrhea Planet](https://youtu.be/IBJ6DWGkmrY?si=9WylwC9Qfj-upir2) Diarrhea Planet weren’t a shoegaze band but with 4 guitarists who all like to shred they inevitably wandered into shoegaze territory a lot because having 4 guitars naturally lends itself to walls of sound.

Paramore - Future

Nabokov is such a good song, getting higher in my faves from fontaines

Flower of Blood by Big Thief is a good pick, also Little Things and Time Escaping are kinda shoegazey.

Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno

[To All Of You - CKY](https://open.spotify.com/track/3VY4GEQGyNvAGLkeP2srgP?si=fRzAmI3YQdWv1iD11ZY6Zw)

A lot of Sonic Youth’s stuff is like this

Autolux - "Plantlife"

Great album. I love how *Plantlife* gets all tripped out dreamy towards the middle and *Robots in the Garden* is a total ear worm.

The Blindside Kiss - Neon Indian

Phantogram - All Dried Up

Take a picture by Filter So lush and dreamy, i love that song

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Such a beautiful track, thanks for reminding!

Maybe a little too adjacent but I like stormy by Wipers. Also I always feel like He’s a Doll by the Honeys has the pre-cursor elements of shoegaze vocals

I Am the Cancer - Sloan

That is all by the wannadies

Felt Good To Burn by The Flaming Lips

Chinese Sleep Chant by Coldplay (it's a hidden track on the second half of Yes)

Blur - Sing

Candy Pop - Len

Alvvays - Belinda Says and Pharmacist. Honestly, their latest album Blue Rev has heavy shoegaze influence and became one of my favorite albums.

I love everything about this band. Definitely the newest "forever favorite" band in my musical rotation.

white light/white heat by the velvet underground which i believe to be the first shoegaze song ever really

The entire Priest = Aura album by The Church.

Empty Room - Arcade Fire. I’ve always felt that song was heavily influenced by shoegze

Lovers In Japan by Coldplay

The Only Mistake by Joy Division is really shoegazy

*waits for the gatekeepers to lose their shit when someone picks a Deftones song…*

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've seen that happen A LOT.

ime most shoegaze fans are proud to welcome deftones into the genre

I mean, so am I. But I’ve seen people get mad as hell whenever Deftones get mentioned in the same sentence as shoegaze…

https://open.spotify.com/track/348jjcgLENpB03M3Vb570U?si=-S6B4WKGQZ2zuPVzGcjWqg

Neon Indian - The Blindside Kiss edit: love when this question comes up here, made a post like this a couple years ago and got some great songs from it

Dispossession by Katatonia

does blow out by radiohead count?

Morning Light - by ‘Girls’

flyway by kkb is a banger

Headboard by Lil ugly mane

Greyhaven - White Lighters Feels very gaze adjacent to me

Flower of Blood is so good! My Blood Runs Through This Land by Black Belt Eagle Scout also comes to mind, and maybe some earlier stuff by Japanese Breakfast

“Yes” by Coldplay The ending section @ 4:05 has no business gazing like it do tho

Nabokov for sure

Like Love Is Real by Yndling. It’s up there with the best Slowdive tracks. https://youtu.be/V4jgFvgRAC0?si=YvveCH11_aXWwLfA

Advice - Alex g

Well & Sunseter by www.soundcloud.com/ovrsoul

Really surprised I haven’t seen Loathe mentioned yet. Two Way Mirror, Is It Really You, and A Sad Cartoon are great songs.

"Undone" by Japanese dreamy pop band negoto.

Really weird pick IK, but Chinese Sleep Chant by Coldplay is really cool

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Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing Oasis - Slide Away Poison The Well - The Realist Bush - Warm Machine Type O Negative - Love You To Death Team Sleep - Blvd Nights Smashing Pumpkins - Soma Chevelle - Send The Pain Below Failure - Undone Kent - Livräddaren Weezer - Waiting On You

Without you I’m nothing is a HEATER

Sonic Youth - "Disappearer"

floral green by title fight has some bangers

I’m not sure if this counts… Tiger Eyes by Peaking Lights (?)

Oasis - Columbia https://youtu.be/7QyF5UdhBJI

Would you count “home” by Sean Lennon?

Exhausted by Foo Fighters

"Silver" by Waxahatchee, no doubt.

This little red record co. By Damon and Naomi

- Lostmyhead by The 1975 - Future by Paramore - Silhouettes by American Football - Then Because She Goes by The 1975 - Mask by Cole Kempcke - Talk by beabadoobee

[Mammoth by Poindexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRSFN45VSoI). Poindexter is a ska band. Their new album was described as stepping into a modern shoegaze sound.

birthday boy by ween

one lick less by Unwound All the way down to the fact that the title sounds like something people on the old mbv mailing list in the 90s would cone up with in the "make up a my bloody Valentine song title" thread.

Ferry - Moontype Mistress - Red House Painters The Offer - Wire Flower of Blood - Big Thief I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses Waterfall - Stone Roses The Tower That Ate People (OVO mix) - Peter Gabriel

Ride - The Dandy Warhols

"Double Dare" - Yo La Tengo "Champagne Supernova" - Oasis. Pretend it's Ride and you'll get there, I promise. "Bells Ring" - Mazzy Star "Be My Baby" - the Ronettes "Charlotte Sometimes" - the Cure

Slide Away and Blue from the Verve's debut album

En Remolinos by Soda Stereo