I've been listening to Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine for the first time in my life the past couple of days. They are okay. I think I like Jesus and Mary Chain better but that song Sometimes by My Bloody Valetine was really good.
I've got Have A Nice Life's Deathconsciousness album. The lyrics are really, corny? I dunno, I just don't like them and I've always found the aethetics of these groups to be half cool and half intolerable so I've got a conflict going on deep inside about this kind of music. I checked out A Place To Bury Strangers and it was too noisy. The other bands mentioned in the first post look really really annoying and I'm not gonna listen to a band called To Kill A Petty Bourgeosie. I'm just not prepared to do that.
I thought shoegaze was slower and closer to soundscrapes than it is. Like a more distorted kind of post-rock or something. If JAMC and MBV are the starters of this genre though I guess I was mistaken!