dream pop/shoe-gazer music

[BRIAN 1972]

I have always liked this genre and want to know some more bands that fit in. Can anyone add to this list?

ride
slowdive
my bloody valentine
jesus & mary chain
lush
cocteau twins
cure

and kind of...

yo la tengo
red house painters

[Jeraden]

I think Ride's Nowhere album is the quintessential shoegaze album. I didn't really care for any of their other albums that much though.

If you go to www.allmusicguide.com you can search for bands by style to get some other recommendations. Looking at their lists of Shoegazing and Dream-Pop bands, I really enjoy Mazzy Star and This Mortal Coil (both of which they classify as Dream-Pop). Mojave 3 is another fairly good one (ex-slowdive members), although a lot of their songs are a bit too plain for my tastes.

I've listened to several songs by some of the other bands they list as popular shoegazing bands, but I was never really that sucked in. I guess its not the type of music that is instantly accessible after just one listen, you kind of have to just develop a connection with it after a while.

[fallow]

Hum may fit into this category although they came well after the movement's peak (which I think of as 1991).

[Alyoshka]

Early Starflyer 59 albums.

[mike1978]

Lilys - "In the Presence of Nothing" (sounds like a lost MBV album)
The Stratford 4 - "The Revolt Against Tired Noises"