Favourite 'B' sides

[El Presidente]

Morrissey/Marr and Weller were so gifted that their throwaways were genius too.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Total Eclipse B side to Run To the Hills was very good I thought.

The real biggy of course is Grendel, the 17minute B-Side to the 12" of Marillion's Market Square Heroes.

 

[Trevor]

Off the top

Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Ed Tudorpole - Who Killed Bambi

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Here's one.

Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. Smooth Operator. The flip side of Passing Strangers.

I can't do the upload thing, but anyone else want to give a little pleasure?

 

[alfredmizen]

 

[Marmaduke]

Louder Than Bombs - The Smiths...

Most bands could have had decent careers with some of those B-sides

 

[Lush]

Most people on NSC will be saying "What's a B Side'?

 

[abc]

The Members. Solitary confinement. B side to offshore banking business which wasn't half as good

 

[Gwylan]

B-side of Paperback Writer. A better song IMHO

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[Albumen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGOaro9kfS4

Kinda DoubleA but anyway . . .

 

[Fulking Seagull]

My 1st thought was The Butterfly Collector and also These are the Days of our lives - although on checking it was apparently a double A side with Bohemian Rhapsody!


And then of course there was Who Killed Bambi (The Sex Pistols)!

 

[crabface]

Oasis - The Masterplan

 

[Albumen]

Incoming Gedge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA92kqxyKw8

 

[5ways]

Radiohead have some great ones. Polyethylene, Talk Show Host, Down Is The New Up etc etc.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Public Enemy - B-Side Wins Again

 

[Man of Harveys]

B-side of Paperback Writer. A better song IMHO

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Certainly one of Ringo's best drumming performances on that. Brilliant song.

 

[Albumen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYtLhQduXS8

Perfect B side: Catchy, silly, short.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

'Back From the Dead' was a superb b-side to 'For Lovers' by Wolfman and Pete Doherty. It's 10 times the version that appeared on 'Down in Albion' by Babyshambles.

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Squeeze "Maidstone" B side was a cracker




or the B side to Labelled with Love - which is a mash of all their hits

 

[beorhthelm]

My 1st thought was The Butterfly Collector and also These are the Days of our lives - although on checking it was apparently a double A side with Bohemian Rhapsody!

never really got the double A record, one is the A and the other relegated to AA. why not release separate?