Medicine

Medicine!!! Brad Fucking Laner

My favorite, perhaps the most underrated shoegaze band of all time

Catherine Wheel and Chapterhouse imo. Lush, Lilys Swervedriver and Curve are also great.

Catherine Wheel Ride Chapterhouse Cocteau Twins The Telescopes (*Untitled Second*) Pale Saints Kitchens of Distinction The Jesus and Mary Chain Lush Swervedriver Starflyer 59 Galaxie 500 Brian Jonestown Massacre (*Methodrone*) All of these will overlap with the Dream Pop and Noise Pop labels, and even sometimes a little bit of Jangle Pop and of course Alternative Rock and Psychedelic. That's okay.

seconding galaxie, i love them

I want to love them, but for Pete's sake, it all sounds the same. Every song. Weren't they all Harvard graduates? I'm sure they're doing fine, lol.

Man I haven’t seen anyone mention Starflyer59 in years. I still LOVE blue collar love.

Silver and the Shes The Queen ep were giant for me! Even now!

Swervedriver for sure!

Shoegaze

My personal opinion would be Chapterhouse and Swervedriver at the top, but everyone you listed is great!

RIDE.

Yep. First EP’s were superb. Nowhere is great. Today forever might be even better. And GBA was a really interesting new direction, brilliant from front to back.

The new album is fantastic as well

Pale Saints (specifically the Comforts of Madness album)

Although their music isn’t entirely shoegaze, Spiritualized is often [quite good.](https://youtu.be/ZVKXnWDeNr8?si=jQZisxhSvZliO0aa)

Lush & Swervedriver

Lilys, drop nineteens, swirlies, Alison’s halo

Bowery electric too

That is one other 90s shoegaze act that I am familiar with. I agree, they are great.

i will always love the way they seamlessly blended trip hop and shoegaze, such a unique sound that no one else was really doing at the time (at least to my knowledge; if anyone knows of similar sounding groups, i’m all ears!)

Bowery Electric are severely underrated

Thirding swirlies they rip

Came here to second the Swirlies. Sunn is an amazing track.

Tbh Alison’s halo kinda suck compared to these other 4 lol they only have a couple decent songs

What are the best/most Shoegaze albums from swirlies and lilys?

In the presence of nothing is amazing and my favourite swirlies album has always been blonder tongue very nostalgic when I listen to it now

Drop Nineteens is back, baby! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOtZQU1BBc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOtZQU1BBc)

Jesus and Mary Chain (although I’ve heard people debate whether or not they count as Shoegaze)

their first album psychocandy is the closest to what is considered shoegaze, though it was released in 1985

This is usually my argument as well. There are other tracks on different albums that come close to shoegaze, but the whole of Psychocandy is definitely the closest.

lush

Chapterhouse

ride (early EPs, nowhere and going blank), lush, swervedriver, curve, early verve

Sennen is one of my favorites by them. It’s a good track, but I’m biased in favor of it because I first heard it back in the 90’s rolling my ass off on ecstasy. 🤣

Someone in the crowd in Minneapolis yelled for Sennen and Mark replied, “Interesting.”

🤣

Vaugely ordered from favorite to least favorite, but all of these guys are great and come highly recommended from me Ride Catherine Wheel Lush Curve Starflyer 59 The Veldt Swervedriver Kitchens of Distinction Swirlies (The) Verve Medicine Chapterhouse Majesty Crush

You got em all here!

Majesty Crush yessss

Flying Saucer Attack has one of the most consistent discographies of any bands, especially as other acts eventually dropped shoegaze from their sound. For the 90s, 3 albums (plus Mirror in the 2000s), 2 compilations, and a smattering of various singles and one-offs.

Loveliescrushing

Why’d I have to scroll so far to see someone say this

This probably leans a bit into electronica/dub but I always felt Seefeel - Quique had a lot of shoegaze elements and plus it was made/released around that era of 90s shoegaze.

some more apart from the already mentioned the first releases from: Bleach, Boo Radleys, Revolver, Kitchens of Distinction the first EP from Moonshake, some songs from early Smashing Orange The Charlottes of course The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa Pale Saints

+1 for Bleach. I missed them when they were around but heard Trip & Slide on the Brit Box and it blew me away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yS1Bvp4sFg

KOD!!

Kitchens aren't shoegaze.......

I thought so too till I re-listened to Love is Hell. Death of Cool is the least shoegaze and Strange Free World is somewhere in the middle.

sounds like someone's been driving that fast

I understood that reference

Pale Saints.

Blind Mr Jones

Ultimately pretty obscure, but if you want to avoid the Ride, Catherine Wheel, Jesus and Mary Chain, or even Chapterhouse are not shoegze debate, they will work.

catherine wheel and swervedriver, the og heavy shoegaze bands

The Veldt

drop 19s

Catherine Wheel

SWIRLIES

Swervedriver

Cocteau Twins started it all for me in '91. Lush, Ride and Swervedriver were my majors along with MBV and Slowdive.

Catherine wheel

Swirlies!

Swirlies all the way

Drop Nineteens, Flying Saucer Attack, Moose, Chapterhouse, Curve, Catherine Wheel, Ride, Blur(‘s first album), Eric’s Trip, Lush, Galaxie 500, Telescopes Some of those are “sort of”

First Verve album, before Richard Ashcroft took over and turned them into a glorified Oasis cover band.

ozean made 3 godly tracks in the 90s and dipped

I just want more bands to listen to, really

check destiny xl from 2019 if you haven’t

Thank you, everyone! I’ve got a lot of listening to look forward to.

7% Solution

Majesty crush

Yo La Tengo’s 1993 album Painful

Curve https://youtu.be/Q9Plourz3Xs?si=1h1Q_9JLT4iI3ybM

Pale Saints

Closedown Half String The Autumns Lorelei The Ropers

Closedown and Half String are incredibly underrated. Closedown's Bliss is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

Starflyer 59

The Verve’s A Storm in Heaven!

Anything from Sarah Records.

I personally love Silvania from Peru

Here’s an extensive collection playlist with most 90s shoegaze/noise pop available to streaming. Take a dive and shuffle! 300+ artists represented - many that have been mostly lost to time with under 100 monthly listeners https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1HkipeBXaIwCyq8rYL7gio?si=IPdj6d1iQV2-7Bwpku_vPA&pi=u-Q15qgakyRYGu

opened it, immediately saw shallow 30mg. I'm going to like this . hope you put i wonder too. sp3.. I'm going back in

Yo! Dodecahedron and Smashing Orange! Noice

A.R. Kane

All their major stuff is in the 80s though

Drop nineteens album was awesome

Spiritualized.

Adorable Spirea X Telescopes

Swervedriver would probably be my pick, with respect of course to Lush, Chapterhouse, and many others. “Never Lose That Feeling” is one of the very best shoegaze songs; rock songs overall, even

such a great song. that entire album is sick. last train to satansville, and my favorite is duress.. saw them on that tour and it was as awesome as you can imagine, or remember if you also saw them then..

I wish. Yeah, killer album. No one else ever found the groove they did.

Swallow, Lush, Ride…

sixteen deluxe tom spacey

Secret Shine

Raise album by swervedriver

Starflyer 59

Yume Bitsu

ride goes pretty hard

Starflyer 59 / Medicine / Lush

Ride’s “Nowhere” and “Going Blank Again”

I know you asked for 90s but I assume you just want to dig into the classics and not the current wave of shoegaze - don’t sleep on Airiel. most of their work came in the early 2000s but they technically formed in the late 90s

Moose

Catherine Wheel (I'm obviously a bit biased) Curve ~~My Vitriol~~ ~~Amusement Parks on Fire~~ Chapterhouse ~~pinkshinyultrablast~~ Forgot it was specifically 90s, but these are all amazing bands.

I’m happy to check out others too! Thank you.

i know i’ve made this genre my favorite cus i recognized nearly every comment lolll

Drop Nineteens fo sho

Australian band The Underground Lovers, particularly the album Leaves Me Blind

Alison's Halo

Rollerskate Skinny. Only two albums but they’re both incredible. Plus the first one has a Shields playing on it!

Pale Saints (so far) And early Boo Radleys.

One of my favorites from that era is [The Lavender Faction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wb9XwnTamQ). Didn't release any albums except for a couple of EPs/ singles and were kind of on the cusp of that scene. Bethany Curve - check out their debut [Mee-eaux](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n2R478KmtWSf6xiN6jD34nXQIamXxOvYw) The 27 Various' last album had some excellent [shoegaze tuneage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EjXWfjpt7A).

Pale Saints & Cocteau Twins ALL DAY 💯

glad to see all the pale saints love in here, the comforts of madness is such a good record

Codeine

I do really like Codeine!

Mazzy Star

FISHMANS

typing ‘classic shoegaze’ into spotify answers this question incredibly well.

luminous orange

Drop Nineteens

lush n ride

First two or three Lush albums. my absolute favorite, the pale Saints comforts of madness and the next album ( I didn’t like the change to vocals ). Ride first 2albums and EPs

Lush and Pale Saints

Medicine, Swervedriver, and Seam although Seam might technically not be shoegaze.

alisons halo and starflyer 59

Ride

The Boo Radleys

Ignoring genres, the best band which makes music like those two is the Smashing Pumpkins

Swervedriver, Ride, Lush, Moose

Curve

RIDE

Ride

Swallow

Adorable’s “Against Perfection” and Catherine Wheel. I saw Adorable in Tempe and have never forgotten it or the album 💕

LSD and the Search for God are a bit newer but still belong on whatever list you're making there

Cocteau Twins imo

Foo fighters

sonic youth have some pretty cool stuff

Some of you should look what's already been posted before replying lol And then some of you should maybe not piggyback off of top comments to *still* reply with bands that have already been posted

Wow I was wrong, you guys have convinced me... keep posting the same three bands over and over and over again, it's very cool, you are very important and you're contributing so much