The Dandy Warhols - Nietzsche

The Dandy Warhols are not a shoegazing band, or even a nu-gaze band.

But sometimes they stick a toe in the shimmering shoegaze water, and when they do, the result is sublime.

Nietzsche, with its droning, monotonous vocals and fuzzed-out guitars is about as shoegazing as the Warhols get.

One of my favorite turn-of-the-millennium bands, the Warhols were frustratingly uneven, producing one or two groundbreaking, glorious songs per album, admid a bunch of less-inspired stuff.  But maybe that's true of most bands.

In any case, those few glorious songs added up over a career to a body of work that makes the Warhols one of my all-time favorite bands, albeit only in a greatest-hits sort of way.

Among their other (non-shoegazy) work, you might want to check out these songs (I'm not going to link to them, because they don't fit the shoegaze parameters of this site, but you should check them out):

Godless
Bohemian Like You
Good Morning
The Last High