What's your favorite B-sides? The Beatles: Rain Revolution I Am the Walrus The Inner Light Old Brown Shoe Grateful Dead: My Brother Esau R.E.M.: Burning Down Bandwagon Rotary Ten White Tornado Pink Floyd: Paintbox Careful With That Axe, Eugene Steely Dan: Sail the Waterway Dire Straits: Eastbound Train The Police: Nothing Achieving Low Life Shambelle Murder by Numbers I Burn For You Once Upon a Daydream Someone to Talk To Genesis: Twilight Alehouse Evidence of Autumn Naminanu I'd Rather Be You Do the Neurotic On the Shoreline
Friends Of Mine-Zombies, B side to Time Of the Season You Make me Feel So Good-Buckinghams, B side to Kind Of A Drag We Love You-Stones, American B side to Dandelion Those Were the Days-Cream, B side to white Room Passing The Time-Cream, B side to Crossroads Wild Child-Doors, B side to Touch Me Little Woman Love-Wings, B side to Mary Had a Little Lamb
I love a lot of 'em, but here's a few huge favorites that immediately come to mind: The Cure- "A Few Hours After This" (probably my all-time favorite Cure tune; even the very-different demo version is outstanding) The Wedding Present- "Niagara," "Gone" and "Up" (I hope all TWP fans are aware of this fantastic little tune) Pearl Jam- "Down" The White Stripes- "Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap" Guided by Voices- "Isolation Drills" The Jam- "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" and "The Butterfly Collector" M. Ward- "Headed for a Fall" Sebadoh- "Say Something/Plate O' Hatred" Pavement- "Kris Kraft" and "Raft" I'm sure I'm overlooking plenty of Jam, Cure and GbV gems, but I'll stop here.
The Smiths: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want Half A Person Girl Afraid The Kinks: I'M Not Like Anybody Else I Need You Big Black Smoke Radiohead: Talk Show Host The Cure: 10:15 Saturday Night Snow in Summer (Actually a whole bunch of them...)
4 Tops — I Got A Feeling (A-Bernadette) Beatles — Rain (A-Paperback Writer) Bob Dylan — Tom Thumb’s Blues (live, Liverpool, 1966) (A-I Want You) Slim Harpo — Got Love If You Want It (A-King Bee) James Brown — I’ve Got Money (A-3 Hearts in a Tangle) Byrds — Why? (A-Eight Miles High) Aretha — Ain’t No Way (A-Since You’ve Been Gone) Otis Redding — Old Man Trouble (A-Respect) Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (A-Cinnamon Girl) Howlin’Wolf — Forty Four (A-I’ll Be Around)
Paul McCartney - I'll Give You A Ring, (Take It Away) Paul McCartney - Coming Up (live) (Coming Up) The Rolling Stones - Child of the Moon (Jumpin' Jack Flash) Led Zeppelin - Hey, Hey What Can I Do (Immigrant Song) Robert Plant - Far Post (Big Log) U2 - The Sweetest Thing (Where The Streets Have No Name) Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (Go Your Own Way) The Who - Heaven & Hell (Summertime Blues) Plus a (dis)honourable mention...the b-side to Def Leppards's Armmagedon It. At least in North America.
My favorite B-side is "Why Does It End?" by the Flaming Lips. It was the b-side to "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song". It is also my favorite Flaming Lips tune.
Waitin' Guilty & Darling Of The Underground Press - The Black Crowes Sad Day, Long, Long While, Who's Driving Your Plane, Child Of The Moon - The Rolling Stones Where Have All The Good Times Gone , Sittin' On A Sofa, I Need You, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, She's Got Everything - The Kinks I Don't Even Know Myself, When I Was A Boy, Water - The Who
The Who- "Heaven and Hell" (B-side of "Summertime Blues") The Who-"When I Was a Boy" (B-side of "Let's See Action") Pete Townshend- "Dance it Away" (B-side of "Uniforms") Kinks-"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (B-side of "Sunny Afternoon") Beatles- "The Inner Light" (B-side of "Lady Madonna") Kate Bush- "The Handsome Cabin Boy" (B-side of "Hounds of Love") The Soft Boys- "Song No. 4" (B-side of "He's a Reptile") Yoko Ono- "Listen the Snow is Falling" (B-side of "Happy Christmas") Pink Floyd- "Julia Dream" (B-side of "It Would be So Nice") Rain Parade- "Kaleidoscope" (B-side of "What She's Done to Your Mind") Wings- "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" (B-side of "Goodnight Tonight") Iveys- "Daddy's a Millionaire" (B-side of "Maybe Tomorrow") well, those are just a few off the top of my head.....
Can - Turtles Have Short Legs: early Can trying to go pop... David Bowie - Conversation Piece: should have made the album. Depeche Mode - Shout Depeche Mode - Fools Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen: they realized it was good and made it an official track on the next album. Depeche Mode - Dangerous: Violator was that good that they could make this a B-Side. Depeche Mode - My Joy Depeche Mode - Surrender Depeche Mode - Easy Tiger Depeche Mode - Ghost: probably the best cut from SOTU. Depeche Mode - The Sun and the Moon and the Stars Depeche Mode - Always Joy Division - Incubation Moby - Flower Moby - Whispering Wind Prince - Erotic City: essential. Prince - She's Always in My Hair. Radiohead - Talk Show Host
The Pretty Things I Can Never Say b side of Honey, I Need Get A Buzz b side of Cry to Me Can't Stand the Pain b side of Midnight to Six Man LSD b side of Come See Me Buzz the Jerk b side of Progress The Rolling Stones Stoned b side of I Wanna Be Your Man Off the Hook b side of Little Red Rooster The Spider and the Fly b side of Satisfaction Long Long While b side of Paint It Black Who's Driving Your Plane b side of Have You Seen Your Mather, Baby Dandelion b side of We Love You Child of the Moon b side of Jumpin' Jack Flash The Kinks I'm Not Like Everybody Else b side of Sunny Afternoon Mr. Pleasant b side of Autumn Almanac The Who Anytime You Want Me b side of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere (US) The Yardbirds Got to Hurry b side of For Your Love Steeled Blues b side of Heart Full of Soul Psycho Daisies b side of Happening Ten Years Time Ago Them Gloria b side of Baby Please Don;t Go All For Myself b side of Here Comes the Night Manfred Mann John Hardy b side of Sha La La The Animals Gonna Send You Back to Walker b side of Baby Let Me Take You Home Cheating b side of Don't Bring Me Down
Pink Floyd Paintbox Julia Dream Careful With That Axe, Eugene Terminal Frost Beatles Thank You Girl I'll Get You This Boy Rain I Am The Walrus You Know My Name Rolling Stones Stoned Sad Day Dandelion Child Of The Moon Coldplay Only Superstition For You Careful Where You Stand Brothers & Sisters (2000 re-recording) Crests Of Waves I Ran Away Gravity Depeche Mode Ice Machine
There must be a lot but a few that always come to mind: Dino Desi and Billy, Good Luck Best Wishes To You Staccatos, We Go Together Well Moody Blues, Cities Diesel Park West, What About Us and (below) Above These Things: