Top Ten Record Labels

Disco Stu's List:

sun

motown/tamla/gordy

chess

stax/volt

columbia (jazz)

rough trade

smithsonian folkways

matador

sire

death row and interscope

honorable mention: postal records, island records, apple records, tomato

No Name's Lists:
My Favorite Top Ten Label
10. Stax
9. Wackies
8. Fat Possum
7. Impulse
6. Blood & Fire
5. American
4. Tie: Matador - Merge
3. Rhino
2. Bloodshot
1. Columbia
Honorable Mentions: Artemis & Rainbow Quartz

Historically My Top Ten Labels
10. Rough Trade U.K.
9. Def Jam
8. Impulse
7. Motown
6. Chess Records
5. Warner-Reprise/Elektra (Fuck Wilco)
4. Stax
3. Columbia
2. Atlantic
1. Capitol
Honorable Mention - Abcko & Island Records & I.R.S.

Hendo's List:
1. Sundazed
2. In The Red
3. Bloodshot
4. Fat Possum
5. Sun
6. Estrus
7. Sympathy For The Record Industry
8. Blue Note
9. Crypt
10. Rainbow Quartz
Honorable Mention: Bomp, Norton, Impulse, Kranepool, Sub Pop, SST

Shrimp Cracker's List:

10. Sub Pop

9. Elektra (with a nod to Danny Fields' A&R findings in Ann Arbor, MI)

8. Blue Note

7. Columbia

6. Fat Possum

5. Smithsonian Folkways

4. Rhino

3. Chess

2. Stax/Volt

1. Sun

Honorables: Bomp; Sire; Matador; SST

Best Label In Theory That Failed In Execution: Apple Records

Best Ways To Destroy the Recording Industry: Universal; Sony; BMG; EMI; Warner

Best Way To Salvage the Recording Industry: Apple Computer

Mr. Poop's List:
1-Frontier
2-Bloodshot
3-Ace Of Hearts
4-SST
5-Enigma/Restless
6-Homestead
7-Matador
8-A&M
9-Rough Trade
10-Popllama