The band logo, once an all-important visual component of any self-respecting group's identity, has famously declined now that everything has to squeeze onto the screen of an iPod Nano. Need an easy way to remember what it was like before the fall? Check out Bodhi Oser's new Band ID: The Ultimate Book of Band Logos. In it, he's collected 1,000 of the genre's best, from the iconic Stones tongue (yes, it's based on Mick's mouth) to more obscure (and troubling) examples, like Shepard Fairey's pre-Obama work for the Black Eyed Peas. Oser also interviews the artists behind the emblems. We learn, for instance that Kiss' classic logo was drafted by a failed graphic designer who decided to take up the guitar instead—some dude named Ace Frehley.

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