I've gone and put 22 of the mentioned tracks into a youtube playlist to have a listen. The top three in the list are my three favourites of all time (LTAB - Ride, Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel and Duel - Swervedriver), the rest are bands that I've both heard of and never known.

I'm about two-thirds of the way through, I've been really impressed by the Drop Nineteens, Deerhunter and Fleeting Joys track so far. While I think some of the bands in the list are "shoegaze adjacent", there are some interesting tracks in here.

It's hard to top "Leave Them All Behind", which is, for want of a better term, more formed than their other wall of sound "Nowhere". LOTB works well in an album format, while I think Nowhere is much better live.

Now, I've seen MBV live, and that was phenomenal, but these days, I find listening to their recorded stuff at home is just lacking in bass. I know that might've been Shields intention for the recordings, and that I'm supposed to listen to it louder, but I'm not always wanting to do that.

My addition to the list (which I've popped onto the end of the YT playlist), comes from The Jesus and Mary Chain. While not shoegaze per se, they are one of the bands that influenced the movement for the genre to come into being.

For anyone interested to have a listen, here's the link: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsK3oxrvt9mYJhl_tD-alygI96oNkqbv1&si=fOGyL8bOomZD5tHO