This is actually a popular track with rock musicians I've known (some of them arguably famous) who love to jam on it. Rock music/Beatles snobs, not so much. That whole album is pretty wild actually.
The B side to Captain Sensible's Wot was something called Strawberry Dross which was a whole pile of demos (9 minutes) strung together to, sort of, make a song.
The B side to Bluebirds Over the Mountain by The Beach Boys was a Charles Manson song called Cease to Exist
One of the B sides to Hunters & Collectors Throw Your Arms Around Me was a comedy sketch called Who's on Left?
On the flip side of Bob Dylan’s 1966 poppy-sounding “I Want You” was a live performance of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” with the Hawks in Liverpool that sounded something like this….
Well it's not the Ronettes, it's The Phil Spector Wall Of Sound Orchestra. It belongs more in a thread for A-sides with a different artist on the B-side. Spector did that a bunch of times, if you want more you've got "Miss Joan & Mr Sam" (B-side of "Baby, I Love You"), "Big Red" (b-side of "The Best part of Breakin' Up"), "Bebe & Susu" (b-side of "Do I Love You?"), "Chubby Danny D" (b-side of "Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love").
Umm.. ok one that comes to mind is The Intruders[1964]classic[But You Belong To Me]- it's B-side[Jack Be Nimble] a fast dance tune, not bad but different.
B-side to Dancing Bear by the Mamas & Papas. Very offbeat and only 1:06 long. Probably a breach of copyright as well.
Bizarre Steppenwolf B-side, nearly 9 mins worth. Not on any collection until the complete singles came out recently.
Upon first glance I read the thread title as Strange Country B-Sides & was off to find some bizarre Johnny Paycheck or George Jones songs.
finally found this on 45 after many years of looking --- why this was not played on "underground ' radio in the late 1960's is a mystery -- did Columbia discourage them?
It really says something that in the catalogue of a band as odd as Roxy Music, "Hula Kula" was the song that seems most out of character for them. It's like one of those Hawaiian Easy Listening albums. For all intents and purposes it was a Phil Manzanera solo track, so he probably liked that sort of music. It stands in total contrast with "Street Life", which was almost an early punk song.
