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Record labels
Posted by Beezer on 14 August 2009 - 9:03pm.
The actual paper ones on the vinyl, I mean.
I was always quite taken with Vertigo spiral logo designed, I assume, to invoke a feeling of said condition as it undulated round and round and round...
Swan Song was a nice one. That Icarus-based chap sans winky flying through the clouds. Looked suitably dramatic, mythical and fantastic.
What were your favourites if you had any?
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Stax - the snapping fingers
Atlantic
with the dual semicircles of colour - and releasing mainly US artists which always made it seem quite exotic to me
In my stalking rock stars days...
I went to Jimmy Page's house in Windsor. The pub at the end of his road ('The Swan') had a sign on which was painted the Swan Song logo. The 15 year old me was very impressed.
Maybe Page snaffled the label design
from his local pub sign? :-)
Snigger
walks away whistling...
w...
oops.
Walk
this way.
You're the man who knows
Island
I missed the pink label but I have spun the odd one, anyway the 'classic' Island one for me every time - Mott, KC, Roxy
Not pink for me either
I've never seen the pink one as iconic but the one thats printed on all my Sparks singles brings back memories. Other classics are Stiff (The black one and the red one), Berserkley and, plain though it is, Polydor.
Purple
I liked the Purple Records label, although there wasn't much worth buying on it.
Percy?
I always assumed that the "percyless" chap on the SwanSong label was based on Percy Plant. Being a Dave Edmunds fan, I've got quite a few SwanSong records.
Charisma
The Mad Hatters Tea Party - always invoked a frisson of excitement in my prog days. Also, the Blue Note and Impulse labels for when Jazz was the most important thing. (Man)
Also had a soft spot for Chrysalis
...both Blue and Green. (This is a good thread).
Fontana
My sister had some soul-ish singles on Fontana from the late sixties. Distintive 'F'.
Bronze. Motorhead were on Bronze for a while - the evolutionary stages of homo sapiens were the logo. Nice.
Harvest and Fly
My first album which mattered - "Electric Warrior" on Fly. Any everyone I liked shortly after seemed to be on Harvest with that lava lamp logo and two shades of green label. Cooool, maaaan.
Fantasy
Medium brown with an orange "F". No? Anyone?
/sarcasm
Atlantic europe..
..pre WEA, plum and red..ahh. Plus Island pink and pink rim.
Surely the first Virgin label was the most beautiful. The "modern" red and green with a slash was surely the ugliest.
Also with Twangothan..just seeing that green Harvest label takes me back to head shops incense and Roy Harper's stoned giggle.
Mute Records
Could watch the man from above, walking around the turntable. Many hours of fun were had.
The proper Virgin label
still conjurs up a certain time and place.
An Apple
whole on one side - sliced in half on the other might be a nice design idea.