Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Logo-a-Go-Go

Our tiny dictator wants a post up pronto.  What with our doofus overlord vacating the position 36 months ago, you're our only hope, Obi Wan.  Oh, wait, is that me?  Filler ensueth.

Every good rock band needs a logo.  The bigger and better your band gets, the more ubiquitous that logo is, and the more that image -- often without any words to associate it with the band -- stands just fine as a symbol of the group.  There are specific criteria that separates the best logos from the rest, some objective and most subjective.  I won't list them.  You get it.

Instead, I will proceed directly to the List of the Best Musical Act Logos.  A better name for this is Best Rock 'n' Roll Logos, but some might argue about certain acts' inclusion in the "rock" category. Whatever.  You get it.  Here we go.  This is what I came up with...

Top 12 Logos that Include the Band Name:



Top 15 Logos That Don't Include the Band Name:



Sometimes logos are meant to be mashed up.  Check out this T-shirt on local DJ Les Coole:
Feel free to add to this list.  

Oh, and yes, #8 is of course Random Idiots.

49 comments:

Danimal said...

I know fewer than 1/2 of logos without names.

Squeaky said...

I like how the Random Idiots logo falls into between 6th and 9th place.

Missing?
White Stripes peppermint candy
Misfits Skull
Nine In Nails initials
Led Zeppelin
Twisted Sister

Whitney said...

Led Zep's is a good one. I had the letters, then the ZoSo images, then the angel image of whatever, and ultimately I picked none of them. And the Misfits skull scares me.

Whitney said...

74 degrees here in SE VA. Snow in the forecast tomorrow. No comprende.

Squeaky said...

Weird cycle up here as well. Snow and freezing rain yesterday, 50 degrees today, 12" of snow for tomorrow.

Whitney said...

https://youtu.be/hj4HBk8JLnA

zman said...

Prince isn't a band but his logo was a pretty ubiquitous substitute for his name for a while there.

zman said...

12 Inches of Snow holds up. Yeah I said it ... it's as impactful as it was 25 years ago.

Whitney said...

Don't get Rob started on what a waste of time buying that album was

Whitney said...

And by Prince changing his name to that simple, he was trying to hard to get on this list

TR said...

Zman - a young African American guy was cranking Murder She Wrote in a brand spanking new red Honda Accord at 50th & Park y/day. I thought of you. And Chaka Demus. But not Pliers.

Dave said...

i have number three tattooed on my body! seems like a much better decision now . . .

already got the call: no school tomorrow! heavy snow=heavy drinking

zman said...

I took a lot of unwarranted flack for Shaka Demus. Glad to see he's still getting live in midtown.

How about the Velvet Underground banana?

zman said...

live = love

TR said...

Iron Maiden and Def Leppard have quasi-iconic, albeit dated, logos.

Shlara said...

So, the Knicks...

zman said...

I miss Oak.

http://deadspin.com/charles-oakley-dragged-into-msg-tunnel-and-arrested-aft-1792154664

zman said...

Imagine you're working security at MSG and the dispatcher comes on in your earpiece with "Charles Oakley is fighting in the stands. We need someone to break it up." I would take a smoke break.

Shlara said...

Dolan is an ass
Oak is OG
The Knicks are a Greek tragedy

Mark said...

That Oakley video was something else.
Murder She Wrote is still a jam.

zman said...

https://www.undrcrwn.com/free-oak-tee/?sp_id=4888742&m=73855&utm_campaign=smartrmail_manualcampaign_090217_73855&utm_medium=email&utm_source=smartrmail

Mark said...

I received that same email from Undrcrwn this morning.

mr kq said...

Won't be popular round these parts but I'd have the Yes logo on the list. Also Sex Pistols and maybe PIL.

Squeaky said...

Was always a fan of PiL and nothing wrong about Yes or Greasetruck logos.

Now supposed to get close to 20" of snow. Good thing I got the snowblower back yesterday after its routine maintenance.

Whitney said...

15. Nirvana
14. Van Halen
13. Wu-Tang Clan
12. Pixies
11. Weezer
10. Public Enemy
9. Social Distortion
8. Random Idiots
7. Black Flag
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Dead Kennedy
4. Grateful Dead
3. Ween
2. Ramones
1. Rolling Stones (duh)

Mark said...

How do you people live in areas that get that kind of snow? My god.

zman said...

You adjust to it. Sort of like getting used to seeing alligators in your pool.

TR said...

...and jorts.

Squeaky said...

All this snows makes me want to have an afternoon beer or two. But damn work keeps getting in the way.

Also the John Oliver interview in RS the other day is not bad if you are looking to waste a little of your time.

rob said...

john oliver's wife does not look like one might expect her to look

Danimal said...

no aerosmith logo. that should be on there imo.

rootsminer said...

I'll second Danimal on that. Also, TR is a Hufflepuff?

Mark said...

For the record, I haven't worn jokers since high school. And I've never seen an alligator in a pool. My Dad did hit his golf ball right next to an 8 footer on Tuesday though. He chose to take the drop.

Dave said...

i haven't drawn my greasetruck logo in a long time. i think i also had a cool "slouching beast" logo-- a bunch of triangles, mainly. i'm hard at work on some new stuff . . . and i'm going to come up with a new name and an awesome logo to go along with it!

Dave said...

black ice school delay tomorrow morning is possible. i think we should err on the side of caution (and sleeping in).

zman said...

It's amazing how Floridians are blase about encountering giant reptilian man-eating predators, but completely unsettled when encountering a 40 degree gale or, heaven forfend, snow. Regionalism makes us great! Murica!

rob said...

tribe down 17 to a shitass drexel team. cool.

Whitney said...

No Aerosmith logo?? Is there a logo different than the one in #3?

TR said...

It'll be 15 degrees when I'm waiting for my sure-to-be-delayed train tmrw morning. Sweet.

My Spring Break trek to Sanibel in April can't come soon enough.

zman said...

Yoo wan go booz crooz?

Mark said...

Solid points, Z. I couldn't care less about hurricanes or alligators but would be paralyzed by more than an inch of snow. Now, a few grams of snow? No problem.

zman said...

I went to Gatorland a few years ago and I was stunned and petrified by Chester the 13 foot alligator. Apparently he subsisted on neighborhood dogs when he lived wild in the Tampa area. Given the choice between creatures like that running around unfettered and bad weather, I'll take the cold.

rob said...

bad news on the caa hoops mini-summit from this guy - gotta work a volunteer event here at home that weekend and can't make the charleston run.

TR said...

Marv Albert, Reggie and Webber just laid into the Knicks during the Cavs-Thunder game. Marv, who got fired by the Knicks many years ago, just talked about the dysfunction and said something like "the problems start with management at the top."

Frank Isola, the NY Knicks' beat writer (and one of the few Knicks writers who is not a suck-up), put up a great piece today on Oak:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/no-knicks-win-petty-battle-beloved-charles-oakley-article-1.2968860

Mark said...

I'd say you've disappointed us, Rob, but I don't think anyone really thought that trip was happening when you continued radio silence on it into 2017.

zman said...

Oakley has more total and defensive rebounds than Dennis Rodman?! More offensive boards than Tim Duncan!? And the Knicks will not retire his number?

TR said...

10 years, zero titles, 1 all-star appearance. He doesn't deserve it.

But with that said, Adam Graves didn't deserve to have his number retired by the Rangers.

zman said...

He would have a ring if Starks would've stopped shooting and missing in Game 7. Or if Reilly sat Starks rather than let him keep shooting and missing in Game 7.

Marls said...

Better career for a VA Union alum...Oak or Ben Wallace?