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Your Favourite B-Sides
What are your personal favourite B-Sides? B-Sides are very underrated I find very often eclipsing the A-Side, but still not getting the same exposure.
Some of my favourites: Kate Bush-Kite The Beatles-Rain(Pretty much all of their B-Sides tbh) The Clash-1977 The Clash-The Prisoner Suede-The Living Dead(Pretty much all of their B-Sides tbh) Bowie-Queen Bitch The Who-A Legal Matter Blur-La Comedie Dead Kennedys-Police Truck I've missed loads but nvm. |
Ever since I ripped my collection onto the computer, I've kinda lost track of which ones are B-sides and which aren't. Five off the top of my head though;
The Beatles - The Inner Light Blur - I Know The Coral - Dressed Like a Cow David Bowie - Shadow Man Elvis Costello - Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo |
Personally i feel Oasis had a lot of good B-sides. Alot of them were better than tracks that made the albums.
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^ You forgot about Idler's Dream and Take Me Away ;)
Otherwise, good choice sir. |
if you didn't pick this you're wrong |
Kate Bush - Under the Ivy
Ocean Colour Scene - Robin Hood Ryan Adams - Fools we are as Men Blur - Inertia Sneaker Pimps - Walk the Rain Tunng - The Source |
The Jam
Dreams of Children (Really a Double-A with Going Underground, but it's still a classic) Tales from the Riverbank (B of Absolute Beginners) War (B to Just Who is the 5 O'clock Hero... and in the Beat Surrender EP: Great cover) The Great Depression (B to Just Who...) Pity Poor Alfie/Fever (B to The Bitterest Pill) Shopping (Beat Surrender) Stoned Out of My Mind (Beat Surrender EP: Another great cover) Move On Up (Best Surrender EP: A sharp cover) |
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And The Smiths - Wonderful Woman, off the top of my head. |
Two of my favorite bands:
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Blur - Peter Panic (Girls and Boys, CD1 I think...I don't know if those count, but it's not an album track.)
Adam and the Ants - Beat My Guest (B of Stand and Deliver) Soft Cell - Insecure...Me? (B of Torch) Aztec Camera - Jump (B of All I Need is Everything...wound up on a US collection EP, so I don't know if that counts) Bauhaus - Boys (B of Bela Lugosi's Dead) Big Country - Angel Park (B of Fields of Fire) Bluebells - The Ballad of Joe Hill, (B of All I Am which I think was the B of the 7" - The 12" had South Atlantic Way (Full), but it's pretty much the LP version) T Rex - Born to Boogie (B of Solid Gold Easy Action) The Clash - The Magnificent Dance (Instrumental mix of The Magnificent Seven) Julian Cope - Hey High Class Butcher (B of Sunshine Playroom)/Wreck My Car (B of the 12" version of the single) Mik Mak Mok (B of Sunspots 12", or Double 7") Disaster (B of Trampoline) Non-Alignment Pact (B of World Shut Your Mouth 12") S.P.Q.R. (B of 5 O'clock World) The Damned - Rabid (B of White Rabbit) Nasty (B of Thanks for the Night. Sometimes unofficially known as Video Nasty) More later... |
A few that I adore,
Coheed & Cambria - Elf Tower New Mexico Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Everything Must Converge Sufjan Stevens - The First Full Moon Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Let Me Know (Gold Lion Single) Devo - Turn Around (Whip It Single) |
Talking of Nick Cave;
^ Can't remember which single this backed without looking at the liner notes. Either Where the Wild Roses Grow or Henry Lee. |
Joy Division - Novelty (B to Transmission)
These Days (B to Love Will tear Us Apart) Icicle Works - The Atheist (B to Hallow Horse) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Kill Surf City (B to April Skies) Heat (B to Reverence) Guitar Man (B to Reverence, 12" - Good Elvis Cover, originally for The Last Temptation of Elvis compilation) Sometimes (B to Blues From a Gun) Reverberation (B to Almost Gold 12", originally on the great Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye tribute compilation for Roky Erickson) Vegetable Man (B to Upside Down, great Syd Barrett cover) ...hope I'm getting these right... |
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A few of my favs
B-side to Lovesong B-side to Disarm B-side to Taste In Men |
The Beau Brummels - Two Days Till Tomorrow (B to Don't Make Promises)
Sad Little Girl (B to Good Time Music) The Shangri Las - Dressed in Black (B to He Cried) Paradise (B to Past, Present, and Future, a fine version of a song also recorded by The Ronettes) I'll Never Learn (B to Sweet Sounds of Summer...and the highlight to their Mercury recordings) The MC5 - One of the Guys (B to I Can Only Give You Everything) I Just Don't Know (B to I Can..., second pressing) |
Off the top of my head.
Oasis - The Masterplan Smashing Pumpkins - Starla Oasis - Eyeball Tickler Soundgarden - Bleed Together Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter Nirvana - Aneurysm Soundgarden - Fresh Deadly Roses Soundgarden - Birth Ritual(Demo) Oasis does have a lot of great B-sides. I mean, The Masterplan(their B-sides album) is among their finest albums.(Although, most would say they only have two good studio albums to begin with, but I loved Be Here Now and I enjoyed Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants) |
1. Duran Duran – “Khanada” (B-side to “Careless Memories”)
2. Pet Shop Boys – “A New Life” (B-side to “What Have I Done to Deserve This”) 3. New Order – “Hurt” (B-side to “Temptation”) 4. Madder Rose – “Baby Gets High” (B-side to “Beautiful John”) 5. The Specials – “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” (B-side to “Ghost Town”) 6. Pixies – “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)” (B-Side to “Here Comes Your Man”) 7. The Slits – “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” (B-side to “Typical Girls”) 8. The Cult – “Zap City” (B-side to “L’il Devil”) 9. The Go-Betweens – “When People Are Dead” (B-side to “Right Here”) 10. Blur – Young & Lovely (B-side to “Chemical World”) |
The Beatles - Old Brown Shoe
The Rolling Stones - Everything Is Turning To Gold Paul McCartney - Oh Woman, Oh Why Pink Floyd - Paint Box |
Rise Against - But Tonight We Dance
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"Rain" - The Beatles
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Masterplan - Oasis.
There is no questioning this one. |
Marillion:
and probably their finest track: Part one only. I can't subject you all to 18 mins worth lol |
The Strokes - Hawaii (B-Side to the Juicebox single from First Impressions)
Ha-wa-ii, Ha-uh-wai-ai-ii |
placebo - then the clouds will open for me
- johnny and mary - eyesight to the blind - long division - flesh mechanic - slackerbitch - miss moneypenny - drink you pretty - where is my mind? my bloody valentine - map reference 41n 93w the smashing pumpkins - here's to the atom bomb - never let me down again - set the ray to jerry - rotten apples pixies - weird at my school - winterlong sonic youth - blink - razor blade yeah yeah yeahs - diamond sea - sealings edit: deftones - simple man - wax & wane - please, please, please let me get what i want muse - dead star (not a massive muse fan, but this song is sublime) kings of leon - my first house - wicker chair |
V&F totally pegged my top choice with the chili pepper's Sikamikaniko
here are a pair of others... YouTube - The Smashing Pumpkins - Set the ray to Jerry YouTube - Soundgarden - Karaoke |
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