Strange Contrary B-Sides

Satisfys the thread premise alright.

 

Here's the sole comment on youtube.

Sounds like if herb Alpert and Phil made a spectorian Mexican song. I like it.

It's got 666 views. Hopefully we've changed that.

Another good, albeit contrary, tune.

 

The Who’s “Waspman” - written by Keith Moon, the b-side (bee side? lol) to “Relay.”

Per John Entwistle, “it was Keith’s turn for the b-side money that week.” That certainly tracks.

“Relay” was a pretty progressive choice for a pop single. “Waspman” is…by Keith Moon.

 

Getting back to The Turtles who were always a contrary band.

Here's the b-side to The story Of Rock & Roll. Can't You Hear The Cows. Just silly to be honest.

 

Perhaps amusing if you spent most of your life buzzed like Moon seemed to do but they should never have released it.



Posted so others can hear it.

Thanks.

 

Weren’t all Spector b-sides throwaway instrumentals?

 

Not throwaway?

 

The B-side to one of the biggest singles of all time is quite contrary to the sing song nature of the A-side.

Grace by Quincy Jones is a percolating Philip Glass meets John Carpenter and Aaron Copeland instrumental - and is really nothing like We Are the World.

 

Great example. And a good song. Read the youtube comments. It's beloved in the comments.

 

That’s Almost Good as the b-side of the Chipmunk Song. It’s nothing like you would expect. But when my cousins and I were kids we’d play it over and over and do silly dances.

 

Keep them coming. Another good contrary song.

 

Play the B-side of Public Image Ltd's "Public Image" and this is what you got...

 

Wow. What a mess. Oddly appealing.

Thanks.

 

Rather perversely, David Bowie put one of his very best early tracks on the B-side of "The Laughing Gnome."

 

The b-side to Shambala by Three Dog Night

 

The B side of Fleetwood Mac’s sublime 1969 single Man Of The World didn’t even appear to be by the same band (although it was):

 

And here’s the A side:

 

Back in high school, my friends and I used to laugh ourselves silly listening to this. A joke cover of "Release Me" by Stumpus Maximus and the Good Old Boys, a.k.a. Def Leppard --it appeared as a B-side on various singles for "Rocket," "Pour Some Sugar on Me," and "Armageddon It." Hang on until the final minute for truly sublime singing and escalating key changes.

 

I've always loved this song, which was the B-side of "Lady Madonna". You couldn't ask for two songs more different in approach, both more than worthwhile.



When this came out I used to drive people crazy by repeatedly playing it on the juke box at the local pizza place. Hey, I was 7! Still love it to this day.

 

Cartier by Elton John was one of the b-side songs to the Sartorial Eloquence single from 1980. I love Elton’s a cappella rendition on Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show.

 

Legendary B-side of Seasons in the Sun:

 

You just blew my mind. I never heard this (presumably original) version, only a very drunk-sounding cover on a Soul Asylum album. I've heard and laughed at it a dozen times at least--never knew it was a cover.

 

The b-side to the simgle As Long as You're Here" by Zal Yankosky which is the A side played backwards (as I recall).

 

But You're Mine - Sonny & Cher b-side: Hello.

 

Always loved Waspman