Missed this thread before... there are literally tons of great b-sides:- "I'm Alive" (B side to "Crystal Blue Persuasion") - Tommy James & the Shondells "Amsterdam" (B side to "Sorrow") - David Bowie "Another Journey" (B side to "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel "Jail Guitar Doors" (B side to "Clash City Rockers") - The Clash "Madness" (B side to "The Prince") - Madness "Teddy the Dink" (B side to "Echo Beach") - Martha and the Muffins "Crystal Japan" (B side to "Up the Hill Backwards") - David Bowie "Cruel Garden" (B side to "Strange Little Girl") - The Stranglers "Rock 'n' Roll Widow" (B side to "Help" in the UK and then "What's Love got to do with it?" in the US) - Tina Turner "17 Days" (B side to "When Doves Cry") - Prince & the Revolution "Welcome to the Sun" (B side to "Forever Young"), the original German 7" flip) - Alphaville "Happy Hi" (B side to "Welcome to the Pleasuredome") - Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Shockadelica" (B side to "If I was your Girlfriend") - Prince "Fade Away" (B side to "Cigarettes & Alcohol") - Oasis "Palo Alto" (B side track on "No Surprises" CD-Single) - Radiohead
Replacements, "If Only You Were Lonely," b-side of first single, "I'm in Trouble": Not what you'd expect from a new punk band and a perfect hint of great things to come (if anybody was paying attention).
Aztec Camera - Orchid Girl Released in January 1983 as the B-side to "Oblivious", the first track on their debut album "High Land, Hard Rain" and their fourth single. "But Orchid girl, you'd make my day You'd blow their cloud of crap away If you would just refuse to pay Orchid girl, you'd make my day"
The Merry Go Round, "Time Will Show the Wiser" from 1967. It's the B-side of "Live". One of my all time favorite 45s without question!
Oh Well pt2. Fleetwood Mac I'm Not Like Everybody Else. Kinks Strawberry Fields Forever. Beatles Stone Free. Hendrix Beck's Bolero. Jeff Beck Tales Of Brave Ulysses. Cream Still I'm Sad. Yardbirds Mr You're A Better Man Than I. " " Play With Fire. Stones Ruby Tuesday. Stones 2000 Light Years From Home Stones Child Of The Moon. Stones You Cant Always Get What You Want Fancy Man Blues. Stones The Storm. Stones
Dee Irwin - Anytime Released in 1961 as the B-side to his sole Bliss Records single "Someday You'll Understand Why", and in my view outshining the plug side by far. The song was written by Dorian Burton and Rose Marie McCoy.
Some favorites (almost all non-album songs) XTC: Hang On To The Night (Statue of Liberty) Don't Lose Your Temper (Generals and Majors) Smokeless Zone (Generals and Majors) Blame The Weather (Senses Working Overtime) Tissue Tigers (Sense Working Overtime) Punch and Judy (Ball and Chain) Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass (Ball and Chain) Red Brick Dream (All You Pretty Girls) Desert Island (Wonderland) Dear God (originally the non-album b-side to Grass) Big Country: Angel Park (Fields of Fire) Heart and Soul (In A Big Country) All Of Us (In A Big Country) The Crossing (Chance) Prairie Rose (East of Eden) Winter Sky (Just A Shadow) Restless Natives (Look Away) Song of the South (One Great Thing) The Longest Day (Peace In Our Time) Kiss The Girl Goodbye (Republican Party Reptile) Buffalo Skinners (Ships) Blue On A Green Planet (Cool Version) (I'm Not Ashamed) The Jam: Move On Up (Beat Surrender) Pity Poor Alfie / Fever (The Bitterest Pill) The Butterfly Collector (Strange Town) Disguises (Funeral Pyre) The Zombies: You Make Me Feel Good (She's Not There) Leave Me Be (Tell Her No) I Love You (Whenever You're Ready) She Does Everything For Me (Going Out Of My Head)
I believe that at one time, Bruce Springsteen had the the weird distinction of having both the shortest and longest b-side releases in popular music.. Held Up Without a Gun 1:20 Incident on 57th Street (Live) 10:07 For my money, "Rain" in the greatest b-side ever
The B-side to Never Before by Deep Purple: When A Blind Man Cries Perfection, and why they didn't include it on Machine Head is a mystery to me...
William Bell - A Tribute to a King William Bell's memorial song for Otis Redding. Initially released as the B-side to "Every Man Ought to Have a Woman" in March 1968, just three months after the plane carrying Otis and his band went down in Madison/Wisconsin. "Otis, he was known as Big O Otis, ooh, we gonna miss him so Otis, ooh, yeah We gonna miss him so"
Marillion - Lady Nina It was first released as a B-side for "Kayleigh" and later a US only A-side ... so to me this has always been a B-side.
Buzzcocks - Autonomy B-side to their third single "I Don't Mind", released in April 1978. "I, I want you Autonomy"
