[Music] Single B sides that were better than the A side

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Scroll forward to 6 minutes for the B side. OK, a lot of dub reggae B sides are better than the A sides, but they are just the dub reggae version. This is in that style, but this B side is magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6MgIqUVXg

Totally agree - it’s great - I’d never heard it before.

Not sure how double-A-sides fit into the thread. Most of the early UB40 singles on Graduate were in this category - King/Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking/I Think It’s Going To Rain Today(classic!), Dream A Lie/The Earth Dies Screaming - happy days! Their first album - Signing Off - concerned the one of the apt tunes dedicated to the PM of the time - Madam Medusa! I played it all the louder!

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Even though national treasures Brotherhood of man won Eurovision with Save all your kisses for me, the B side, let's all love together, was marginally a better song.

 

[OzMike]

The B side to Seasons in the Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_pX1-IxRBY

 

[OzMike]

The B side to Angie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyK1bZZ7E-s

 

[OzMike]

The B side to Annie's Song.

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

 

[OzMike]

Not better than the A side, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, but very good.

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

 

[OzMike]

The B side to Behave Yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q

 

[OzMike]

The B side of Brain Stew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

 

[OzMike]

B side of Wouldn't It Be Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMyS78o5YI

 

[OzMike]

B side of Jeremy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs

 

[colinz]

Demon's Eye. B side of Fireball

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Totally agree - it’s great - I’d never heard it before.

Not sure how double-A-sides fit into the thread. Most of the early UB40 singles on Graduate were in this category - King/Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking/I Think It’s Going To Rain Today(classic!), Dream A Lie/The Earth Dies Screaming - happy days! Their first album - Signing Off - concerned the one of the apt tunes dedicated to the PM of the time - Madam Medusa! I played it all the louder!

Those UB40 tracks are all brilliant. I have the King/food for thought single from juke box of what is now The Brewery Shades, in Crawley, where I worked in 1980....

 

[GT49er]

B side of house of the rising sun. This has the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstNm5xzuKM

It wasn't the B side of House of the Rising Sun - it was an A side in its own right. House of the Rising Sun was released a year earlier, in 1964, with Ray Charles' Talkin' 'Bout You on the B side.

 

[studio150]

It wasn't the B side of House of the Rising Sun - it was an A side in its own right. House of the Rising Sun was released a year earlier, in 1964, with Ray Charles' Talkin' 'Bout You on the B side.

It was the B side to the 1970 single release of House of the Rising Sun, but correct about the 1964 release.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Softer ride , B side of Paper Plane, classic Quo.
Turn it up to 11 !!

 

[Pinkie Brown]

B Side of Streets of London

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It wasn't the B side of House of the Rising Sun - it was an A side in its own right. House of the Rising Sun was released a year earlier, in 1964, with Ray Charles' Talkin' 'Bout You on the B side.

Must have re released it. I have the single on vinyl

 

[GT49er]

Must have re released it. I have the single on vinyl

The 1970 re-release then, according to post#54. Definitely not the original 1964 one then, it seems.


Both songs bl**dy good though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The 1970 re-release then, according to post#54. Definitely not the original 1964 one then, it seems.


Both songs bl**dy good though.

More than likely. I keep meaning to fondle my old vinyl

 

[GT49er]

More than likely. I keep meaning to fondle my old vinyl

Pervert!