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See, I thought Jesus and Mary Chain were more what you were describing than Dino was, demon. Maybe both were. They certainly came before most of that stuff, 1982 I think (Dino came two years later if I'm not mistaken, so both bands were kinda doing their thing, whih undoubtedly inspired bands doing the big-loud-walls-of-guitar-with-pop-hooks thing; I think, in the case of stuff like Ride and Slowdive, it's good to look at, say, Cocteau Twins as an unspoken influence)?
...Shoegaze, as a production template, was always cooler to me, than most of the actual "shoegaze bands". I actually think shoegaze started as sort of a derogatory term -- kinda boring music, with bands staring at their shoes and shit. Kinda like the aforementioned Mary Chain with their backs turned to the audience, looking down and makng loads of (hopefully) blissful noise.
But yeah, lots of great bands like Swirlies (who made DEFINITE shoegaze songs, like "Pancake", but most of their stuff was a bit too complex and clean -- they sounded like Polvo and even Sebadoh on certain songs) and Girls Against Boys (love their huge sound on certain songs, with all the bass stuff -- can you believe they had 3 basses playing completely different things on certain songs? Even the usual 2-bass/1-guitar/1-organ setup sounded huge! And... "well excuse me. JUST EXCUSE ME. i'm just.. not.. on it right now. no i'm not on THIS right now. i'm . not . on . drugs . rightnow. i just wannaknow what yer liiiiiiiike... and I hope you don't have a good time. HEY! i forget EVERYTHING. everytime." ... brilliant) and lots and lots of other bands kinda took that "many guitars making a thick wall of sound" and did something awesome with it. Gotta love when bands sound HUGE; it doesnt' work for every band but yeah. You know who sounded really good, and really really big? HELMET. Strap It On is such a great record. You got your layers and layers of guitar and bass, playing the exact same thing, in this THICK staccato style. Start-stop-start-stop. DUNDUDUN.. STOP. DUN. STOP. DUNDUN.. STOP. DUN. STOP. And the drums had no real fills or anything fancy, they played perfectly in time with the strings. Great band, kinda overlooked in a certain way, since they're mostly associated with.. uh.. KoRn..!?
Anyway..
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