If you need just one Ride track, I have to say Vapour Trail

about the original shoe-gaze era only or are you including more recent stuff?

Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station

are a seemingly very overlooked modern shoegaze band.

Can't go wrong with a lot of M83 stuff.

Wouldn't personally class Cocteau Twins as shoegaze, they're more dream-pop, but they inspired a lot of the sound of early Lush, who were very much shoegaze before they released Lovelife.

Also the fact no one's mentioned My Bloody Valentine's 'Soon' so far is both a mystery and a crime.

you should go on their myspace and listen to Sharrsha and Down on You. brilliant.

Babymaker perhaps

Yet another meaningless tag.

"Gold" by Starflyer 59

I only have two of their albs "Gold" and the most recent "My Island" and they are vastly different. "My Island" is very Alex Chilton-ish (and good) but "Gold" is ,I think, an amazing "Shoe Gaze" album but with a little edgier "American" feel to it. Starflyer 59 is really one guy Jason Martin. He is an amazing guitarist and unfortunately does most of his own drumming but I highly recommend "Gold" to all DiSers with a taste for "Shoegaze"

Check both of these out but definitly "Gold"

I have spent pretty much all of this month's music allowance catching up on Ride so I concur with all the Ride recs you got.

"in love with a german film star" by the passions, was a one hit wonder in the 80s and recently has enjoyed a revival being used on match of the day and the tv show ashes to ashes.

would you consider much of Mazzy Star to fit into the shoes of "shoegaze"?

their 'widows' album is probably chock full of the kind of shoegazy goodness you're looking for.

To be honest if someone asked me for a best of shoegaze though I'd just burn a copy of 'Souvlaki'...

http://shoegazeralive.blogspot.com/search/label/Galaxie%20500

....mentioned so far.

anything off the besnard lakes first LP.

moose - boy

flying saucer attack - dreaming hill

anything of bailterspace - robot world

AND IIthe sun off Vortex IIRC.

curve - ten little girls might sneek in?

almost everyone I've played 23 by Blonde Redhead to has absolutely loved it.

What about some JAMC? Just Like Honey would be perfect on this kind of CD.

seksu

Bang Bang Machine -'Geek Love'
Can - 'Future Days'
The Books - 'Read, Eat, Sleep'
Harmonia - 'Sehr Kosmisch'
Liars - 'Pure Unevil' / 'The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack'
Anything off J&MC's Psychocandy..

Then you can both stare fuzzily into the middle distance.

but you need some Curve on that mixtape.

but Serena Maneesh make very shoegaze esque music so I think they'd fit in quite nicely and on more of an instrumental slant, Destroyalldreamers.

although I've always thought Joy Zipper to have a particular shoegaze vibe, although they came along many years after the first scene and too early to enjoy the current wave of nostalgia for shoegaze

burn her a copy of the souvlaki demo's; 'I saw the sun'. It's easily got their best stuff plus it has that 'oooh unreleased' factor which makes it feel like an extra treat.