I know its low hanging fruit and all but i would really like to make fun of this hilariously stupid paste magazine list of 50 best band logos

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/the-50-best-band-logos-of-all-time.html

i cant even

That… That's not the Mastodon logo…

they can't even afford to have someone proofread two paragraphs?

can we just vote now that paste is THE worst name for a magazine ever ever ever? though, strangely, it did fit the content of the magszines i saw...white, sticky, smelly...

I can think of other things that are white, sticky, and smelly.

This ain't that bad is it? It pretty much covers all the real classic logos only one they're missing is Prince maybe... the new ones are definitely not classic and it feels like a forced attempt to fit in.

Vintage Trouble (sometimes abbreviated as VT) is an American soul and rock band. The band formed in Hollywood, California in 2010.[1]

Sooooo... is it just me or did they just flat-out steal the logo from Trouble?

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfZJWhleDtvhsJyEMJyxiCa7u4gYa8-EYkIY63f2_oYtRsZJ88pYMC_DAvDg

pretty sure they are confusing band logo with font here

xpost oh ha yeah wow

http://vintagetrouble.com/images/vintage_trouble_thumb.png

maybe they play vintage trouble songs.

proto-trouble tribute band

the bastards will pay

oh hai i am one of the greatest band logos ever and i see you failed to even consider me
http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2012/02/29/11/58/1e8I4C.St.4.jpg

no Pearl Jam stickman? I know I'm a stan and all but c'mon.

And yeah some of these are just fonts wtf

until someone carves the deadmaus logo into their forearms and puts it on an album cover this list is NULL AND VOID

The Beatles one was never used anywhere until long after they split iirc, aside from on the drumskin. not that that makes any difference but it wasn't ever on an actual record until a crappy hits comp in 1980.

the geezer who made this shoulda done a logo for the actual band too cause that woulda been ace

http://www.fabfourstore.com/content/images/thumbs/0001361_patchesbeatles_rubber_soul_cut_out_300.jpeg

I know it was on a lot of ugly t-shirts, but is that Nirvana one something they ever used on a record?

Uhhhhhhhhhh.....

http://fiberfib.com/flashback/fotos/fib04_love_logo.gif

no darkthrone, no credibility

Yeah, this is shitty. A mix of fonts and logos, without considering the different implications of design, absolutely no commentary (not even to tell you who the band is), a fair few completely boring ones, and some that weren't even used as logos. Well done, Paste, well done.

(Nick, I'd say that the Nirvana face was drawn on enough school-books and printed on t-shirts to be recognisably associated, but I don't think it was ever on any records...)

lmfao @ Pixies

no http://www.metallized.it/public/articoli2/1307169371mzd.jpg no credibility

Flipping through their "list of the day" posts, this is exceptionally pathetic. the rest at least have inane, little "hey this is a movie about dogs that belongs on our 7 Movies About Dogs list" captions.

The Beatles one was never used anywhere until long after they split iirc, aside from on the drumskin. not that that makes any difference but it wasn't ever on an actual record until a crappy hits comp in 1980.

being displayed on the front of the kick drum is HOW a lot of bang logos became famous ffs, you're saying the logo in the middle of the screen during the ed sullivan performances isn't famous/canonical enough to count?

i don't really understand everyone's beef here, obviously the list is half-assed and could've been done much better, but quibbling that many band logos are just the band's name in a distinctive font is pretty stupid

^ truth burp

where I come from, The Monkees were a comedy band.

half-assed is giving it too much credit.
xpost

Internet Explorer cannot open the site http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/the-50-best-band-logos-of-all-time.html

:(

Try now.

No luck, have to check it from home

Anyway, I'm partial to Angel's ambigram, even though they never used it till their third album:

http://robertpetrick.com/angelannim.gif

http://www.vinylhistory.com/rock/starz_first_c.jpg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQkPwCrrjU973ghca15NYvp5-rLGTCG6T005BFtFYt597HyjbSq_BfAxqT50Q

http://www.toymania.com/news/images/1005_motorhead.jpg

Real talk

It's amazing how many of those so-called logos came from much later in the band's career I mean, take the winged Pixies P - that was for the last album! Or the Pink Floyd one listed here - that was from "The Wall." Just a silly charticle.

http://www.thefirstdayoftherestofyourlife.com/tubes/logo-Tubes.gif

And for Minneapolitans:

http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/SuburbsLogo_1.jpg

it's cute when ilx gets all HOW DARE THEY MAKE A LIST, THAT'S WHAT WE DO

where is Motorhead u dildos?

its not how dare they its just what the hell is this sub-ask.com website why does it exist. for me anyway. if it went away tomorrow i doubt anyone would notice. the people that write for it probably wouldn't even notice.

That's what I was trying to post, the Motorhead logo, but isn't working.

Suburbs logo was so fkin awes.

some dude, the very thread title apologizes for the whole endeavor.

Didn't look like that bad a list to me, just skimming. Husker Du is an obvious omission, and maybe, not that anybody cares anymore, Chicago.

we should just come up with our own 50

Drive By Truckers Cooleybird gets my vote, though it might not make a list of 50 with all the classics around

http://aaronstarmer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cooley-Bird-2.jpg

some dude, the very thread title apologizes for the whole endeavor.

― grandavis, Friday, May 11, 2012 12:56 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

well i was talking mainly about the responses, but even the thread starter was a little over the top about "oh my god that's not a logo that's a FONT"

we take our marketing very seriously here

Are 'logos' and 'insignias' interchangeable? B/c a lot of my favorites are really insignias w/o any text. Blue Oyster Cult for example. They don't have a 'logo' I really care for but their insignia is probably my favorite ever.

Huskers otoh had a killer logo and a killer insig.

glad they mention the classic camper van beethovan font that EVERYONE in my jr high had all over their trapper keepers

i've never gotten clear about the distinction between font and typeface. and now re: husker du, logo and insignia.

hey, it turns out that this list of band logos in past magazine is bad and terrible

capt save a pastes up in here

logo and insignia are roughly interchangeable terms when it comes to this sort of thing. neither has to have text to count. BOC symbol is a classic band logo/insignia.

iirc, the difference between font and typface, refers to the difference between the concrete thing you print with (the font) and the design embodied in it (the typeface)

Blue Oyster Cult for example. They don't have a 'logo' I really care for but their insignia is probably my favorite ever.

I mentioned in some BOC thread how I drew one on the blackboard EVERY DAY during high school calculus class!

Revolution By Mid-Morning

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4005/4238551121_6b24d45f1c.jpg

I like the classic GNR logo which wasn't included.

and the Scissor Sisters one is just like, who the fuck cares

Although good job on including Ween.

glad they mention the classic camper van beethovan font that EVERYONE in my jr high had all over their trapper keepers

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 11, 2012 1:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rare moment when i really have no idea if m@tt is being sarcastic

http://www.toymania.com/news/images/1005_motorhead.jpg

http://cherrybombed.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/urge-overkill-logo.jpg

^ more "a band logo" than a great one

those links didnt work

I can't see those!

Weezer uses that same logo on every fucking album cover. So instead let's include that flying W thing.

This should've been a poll btw (Black Flag would've had my vote).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/MutedPosthorn.svg/512px-MutedPosthorn.svg.png

hokey, i guess stuff isn't showing. dang bands. at risk of redundancy:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/asia.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/motorhead.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/urgeoverkill.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/ironmaiden.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/cheaptrick.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Owuu7WWqTg/TfZhAf-RU1I/AAAAAAAAWpw/fXKBGfoXWW0/s320/blue_oyster_cult_logo4.jpg

Cheap Trick! That's gotta be all time top 10.

yeah Cheap Trick otm
also Maiden

I'm sure these would have been linked to somewhere else, but:

http://horsesthink.com/?p=1080

The original site seems to have disappeared. A friend bought me the Scorsese; would rather have gotten the Bela Tarr.

glad they mention the classic camper van beethovan font that EVERYONE in my jr high had all over their trapper keepers

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 11, 2012 1:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rare moment when i really have no idea if m@tt is being sarcastic

― some dude, Friday, May 11, 2012 1:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha totally sarcastic! i mean, no one cares about camper van beethovan!

horses think otm

Blitzen Von Trappist (?) but no Sisters Of Mercy/Merciful Release? Fuck this life.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/deathinjune.jpg

speaking of which:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/GermsGI.jpg

who is it on ilx who has this on them again?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7vpf4fIqYhk/S8CxwGBBTXI/AAAAAAAAAOk/0MOEXE0W2OM/s400/17710.jpg

Band logos are very much a "guy" thing aren't they? There's only two bands in that list (Cramps, ABBA) that aren't all male as far as I can tell. It's hard to think of many co-ed or all-female bands that have a logo. Then judging by the people you see around wearing t-shirts, patches or whatever, it's men that relate to logos for whatever reason. Maybe the music or genres that throw up bands with logos, like punk, metal, techno etc are just more boys clubs than the rest? Or maybe men are just inherently more into this kind of self-branding?

There's only two bands in that list (Cramps, ABBA) that aren't all male as far as I can tell

can't be arsed clicking through that whole paste magazine list, but is the B-52s logo really not included? disgraceful if so

Good one! But no, they're not there.

L7 effectively have a logo for a name

post feels broadly otm though, band-shirt-as-personality-substitute generally a male practice I'd've thought, likewise the robust shitheaded territorial pissing re: who is and isn't entitled to wear Motorhead logos or whatever

http://eyesore.no/html/gif/Lush.gif
http://intendo.net/chem2/logos/lushlogo.gif
http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hole_band_logo_shirt_kurt_cobain.jpg
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/tCUAAOSwzgRW05dQ/s-l225.jpg
http://45.media.tumblr.com/4ed8edf08299e5e2f9f2a5a2d022caac/tumblr_noajlnBvbc1s7unf4o1_500.gif
http://archive.org/download/50FootWave/50FootWave.jpg
With Warpaint, you have this, whcih is awesome:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/33/f5/1a33f50daa4b015e1ba04099fea4df2d.jpg
versus this, which I consider pretty much not having a logo:
http://warpaintwarpaint.com/newsplash/images/warpaint.jpg

sorry for the image bomb. Just thought about the women musicians I listen to most often and their logos. Are there any bands you were thinking about in particular that you were thinking of, everything?

Screaming Females does not appear to have a logo. Nor Sleater-Kinney.

http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/W/Wolf%20Alice/pics/logo.jpg

seems like the original paste feature that this article linked to is gone. Here is another feature by them about logos. St. Vincent's is pretty dope. Most of the rest look like they could be logos for big oil or something.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/can-you-identify-these-10-contemporary-band-logos.html