DoofDoof
02.11.26 | Part 10 of a 'sort of' countdown of the Top 1000 bands of my life - in terms of both IMPACT and QUALITY, some more one than the other.
Welcome to the highest level of doofcore - positions 1-100! All these bands have had some sort of impact on my taste and/or I've listened to a lot...and these are my untouchables.
A few newer artists to me (Adrianne Lenker, Richard Thompson, Jackie Leven, etc), from say the last five years of my listening, have joined some long set in stone picks. |
Demon of the Fall
02.11.26 | Nice. It's done (at last!)
There are certainly a few here that I wouldn't have backed to make the cut (some of which are pleasing to me) and at least two artists I have never heard of.
If I did this, placing a band like the Manics would be impossible. Historically they would be very important. But now? I don't care for them. |
zakalwe
02.11.26 | You’ve come round to Depeche Mode then, good lad.
Massive credit for Grant Lee Buffalo and The Stranglers.
Animal Collective can get to fuck |
DoofDoof
02.11.26 | Animal Collective were at risk true, definitely in the bottom five, maybe with Soundgarden, Psychedelic Furs...and Jim O'Rourke is a massive one in impact across indie in general (seems to have produced or played on half the big indie albums of the last 30 years) but I am maybe overrating his actual solo output a shade having him in the top 100. |
DoofDoof
02.11.26 | 'Massive credit for Grant Lee Buffalo and The Stranglers.'
Stranglers would be top 5 for me now, I'm even beginning to like the nu-Stranglers stuff with the replacement singer now.
GLB would be top 30, and strangely my most played Buffalo album is now the last one they did, Jubilee. That is one of the best sellout stadium style alt rock albums of the 90s, amazing stuff. |
DoofDoof
02.11.26 | 'But now? I don't care for them.'
I revisited the Manics a bit this year, I have a huge problem with them as a band after Richey left - before then I always respect their chutzpah even if some of the music is hit and miss. |
Demon of the Fall
02.11.26 | Same. I just feel even the Richey era lost some of its lustre over time. Enough for me to abandon ship and quit 'while I was ahead' during my last stint
maybe one day I'll feel nostalgic enough to return |
zakalwe
02.11.26 | The artists of abandonment are your Green Days, your Eminems, your multitudes of pish when discovering new genres.
Manics always offer something. |
zakalwe
02.11.26 | As a present for this quality countdown I will dig out another secret one from the Zak vault.
I won’t divulge fully but here’s a cryptic clue for ya.
There is another Cathal who has done one of the greatest albums of the 21st century but they’re not on sput.
Madness I tell ya |
DoofDoof
02.11.26 | Love it Zak, I’m on the case… |
bighubbabuddha
02.11.26 | Quite incredible taste Mr Doofy |
DoofDoof
02.11.26 | Any surprises here hubba? |
