Catalog Numbers That Are Words That Aren't In The Label Name

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Alternative Tentacles = Virus 001
Tigerbeat6 = Meow 001
Southern Lord = Sunn 001
5RC = GER 001 (for Gertrude Stein!)

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Les Disques Du Crepuscule = TWI or Twilight

granted Crepuscule ='s Twilight.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Stiff = SEEZ 1, BUY 1, BOY 1

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Matador = OLE etc.

Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

mute = bong, stumm etc. (ok: stumm means mute, but i never got the bong stuff. a reference to the quintessential depeche mode synth noise, or just that daniel miller was stoned?)

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Space Age Recordings = ORBIT001, etc.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

slumberland records used to prefix their catalogue numbers with "DRYL" for no reason i can work out

shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

53rd & 3rd used the acronym AGARR, which stands for "As good as a Ramones record"

Jez (Jez), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Poptones use "MC5" for some daft reason

shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Small Wonder used WEENY or TEENY for 12"s.

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Fierce Panda = Ning

A Mouse Called Nonny, Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

And its Livid Meerkat spin-off has "Nung".

A Mouse Called Nonny, Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

did Rabid Badger have Nang? I think so.

KLF Communications did cat #s by artist rather than label, so before they got to the likes of KLF004, they'd already done JAMS 23S and D 2000T.

kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

(if you count the acronym JAMS as a word, that is. they used in in lyrics, so I'm standing behind it.)

Half A Cow uses HAC103-style for most releases, but "moo13" format for 7"s. if you count an onomatopaeic etc etc.

kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

That old Virgin mid-price range: OVED 1 etc. (OVED 1 itself was a Devo live album, geddit?).

OleM (OleM), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

Dirtnap = ZZZ-001

suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

Rush's CDs on the Anthem label all have WANK in 'em! WANK-001 etc.

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

I thought Fundamental Records used the prefix SAVE exclusively, but a little research reveals they occasionally relied on PRAY, HOLY, HYMN and even DEITY once.

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:59 (fourteen years ago)

Dreams Are Your Life

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

I used to be endlessly fascinated by these as a teenager checking the John Peel tracklistings on Ceefax (remember those?). One I remember for some reason is Love Train records - PUBE01 etc.

NB I couldn't even tell you a single band that were on Love Train records and yet I remember their catalogue number system

(oh! Eska "Running On Sum Six Dew" is PUBE15, that's a good 'un. And Prolapse, Quickspace Supersport, Tunic, Mogwai, Urusei Yatsura, Hood... not bad for a label which only seems to have had 20 releases)

instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

Rabid records, TOSH01

Tosh being the bloke that ran it.

Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

Domino = RUG and WIG

NSFW Australia (seandalai), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

I blame Stiff records, they started it with their BUY and all that.

I tried ordering an ep from the local record shop, a week later I went back and they told me the warehouse couldn't send it as they had added LAST 1 to the order. I told them that was the catalogue number, and they looked at me like I was DAFT!

Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:28 (fourteen years ago)

xp Ah yes, WIG for albums and RUG for singles. Like Vinyl Japan was ASK for albums and PAD for singles. No idea why...

instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

(this is also where I belatedly work out what contenderizer's post refers to and go "ah!")

instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

Table of the Elements used an element's chemical symbol, which I think differed for each release (ie. Li 3, Cu 29, etc.)
Silvertone Records used ORE
I wonder about some of the Rolling Stones Records (the label) that used COC and CUN prefixes on the Stones records in the 70s.

city worker, Friday, 27 April 2012 16:25 (fourteen years ago)


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