RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I had the roadrunner single . Pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 [quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1430998376' post='2766681'] Re. Sweet. Didn't they do a B-side called Burning? That was a lot heavier than their singles. [/quote] Heavily influenced by Immigrant Song, but "Burning" was my first hearing of the "real" Sweet. If you look for the live version on YT you'll hear why Sweet were banned from many venues after just one appearance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 [quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1431020860' post='2767033'] It Bites did some good b-sides. I'll Meet You In The Spring is prob my favourite. It's good to remember a time when you didn't just get four mixes of the single. [/quote] VAMPIRES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1431075360' post='2767487'] VAMPIRES! [/quote]Bugger, I remembered that one just after I'd posted. They opened a show at the Hammy on their last tour with Frank with a b-side - Bullet in the Barrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) Best B side I ever heard was Nico Mc Brains argument, I can't remember the A side. He didn't know he was being recorded http://youtu.be/TDGhAZEQyLw **** was standing be'ind me, sittin Dahn! Edited May 8, 2015 by ubit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 [quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1431028814' post='2767168'] Also, anyone remember the T Rex's Solid Gold Easy Action B-side - Born to Boogie is the B-side but with a Christmas message from Marc Bolan at the start of the track. [/quote] Oh yes. "Hi this is Marc Bolan. I'd like to wish you a super funk Christmas and a ?golden? New Year". The B-side of Gary Glitter's single "Rock and roll" was "Rock and roll part 2", the side that finished up being the hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 I always loved Lilly of the Valley, which was the B side of Now I'm Here by Queen. I haven't googled it, bit I don't think it was an album track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1431099413' post='2767833'] I always loved Lilly of the Valley, which was the B side of Now I'm Here by Queen. I haven't googled it, bit I don't think it was an album track. [/quote] It was on Sheer Heart Attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL POSTERS Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) I remember a Neil Young single - Probably Heart of Gold not sure. The B side was Sugar Mountain, which got played more on pub jukeboxes than the A side. iirc Stevie Wonder released I Don't Know, as an A side with Cherie Amor as the B side, 6 months later My Cherie Amor as an A side, with I Dont Know Why I Love You as the B side. Now that's what I call clever marketing. Edited May 8, 2015 by BILL POSTERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel36 Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 I Saw Her Standing There. Rain Eleanor Rigby Revolution While My Guitar Gently Weeps Come Together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1431105321' post='2767892'] It was on Sheer Heart Attack. [/quote] Ah, thanks. :-) As you can tell, I'm not a huge Queen fan. But I love that single (both sides!) :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) The b-side of [i]London Calling[/i] by The Clash was their very wonderful version of the very wonderful [i][b]Armagideon Time[/b].[/i] I just found a box of 7" singles this afternoon, I should have a look through and see what other good b-sides turn up. EDIT: Found some more. Faith No More - [i]A Small Victory[/i] b/w [b][i]Let's Lynch The Landlord[/i][/b] Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - [i]Lady Bird[/i] b/w [i][b]Sand[/b][/i] Elvis Costello - [i]Oliver's Army[/i] b/w [b]My Funny Valentine[/b] Killing Joke - [i]Requiem[/i] b/w [i][b]Change[/b][/i] Darts - [i]Come back My Love[/i] b/w [i][b]Naff Off[/b][/i] Edited May 9, 2015 by Mr H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmedunc Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 [quote name='Mr H' timestamp='1431199803' post='2768802'] The b-side of [i]London Calling[/i] by The Clash was their very wonderful version of the very wonderful [i][b]Armagideon Time[/b].[/i] I just found a box of 7" singles this afternoon, I should have a look through and see what other good b-sides turn up. EDIT: Found some more. Faith No More - [i]A Small Victory[/i] b/w [b][i]Let's Lynch The Landlord[/i][/b] Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - [i]Lady Bird[/i] b/w [i][b]Sand[/b][/i] Elvis Costello - [i]Oliver's Army[/i] b/w [b]My Funny Valentine[/b] Killing Joke - [i]Requiem[/i] b/w [i][b]Change[/b][/i] Darts - [i]Come back My Love[/i] b/w [i][b]Naff Off[/b][/i] [/quote] The Clash had some great B sides and so did the Pistols (not the Rock and Roll Swindle farce). Killing Joke too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1431197853' post='2768779'] Ah, thanks. :-) As you can tell, I'm not a huge Queen fan. But I love that single (both sides!) :-) [/quote] At a bit of a tangent - have a listen to Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack, there's some other tracks that I think you'd like (Nevermore and White Queen spring to mind). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I don't buy many singles, especially 12", but got lucky with Under the bridge - A great version of Iggy's Search and Destroy and Sikamikaniko, a great cut that didn't make BSSM, but IS in Wayne's World. Hard and funky, great B-side(s) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswareham Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) B-side to New Order's first single is one of my favourite songs of all time. The A-side is Ceremony, a track they wrote as Joy Division with Ian Curtis shortly before his suicide. The B-side is an almost suffocatingly dense and dark track called In A Lonely Place: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFteKByG5Q4[/media] Some of the Sisters of Mercy B-sides where on a par with the A-sides, or in the case of the two singles from their first album actually classics in their own right: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpySqQSu_o[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXuy-rqZVfY[/media] Then there was "Eat Me Drink Me Love Me" by Pop Will Eat Itself, B-side of "Karmadrome", complete with Ofra Haza samples (see also the second release of the Sisters of Mercy "Temple Of Love"): [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TiimsgX80[/media] Brilliant lyrics as well: Escaping the twilight, drinking till sunrise I never thought a head like this would persist I could be dead at 33 like [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushi"]Belushi[/url] Drain myself away like [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hancock"]Hancock[/url] in Sydney Who knows? Who cares? Who'll remember anyway? Welcome to hell Spend your time in hell I could try to change it but it suits me too well A not so private hell You feed my hunger but drown all my senses In the satisfaction stakes, it's like sitting on the number nine bus I can't stop me, you can't stop me, I can't stop me, you can't stop me One's too many, ten's not enough Welcome to hell Spend your time in hell I could try to change it but it suits me too well A not so private hell, welcome to hell Feels good to be back with [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_%28actor_born_1914%29"]Charlie[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Jacques"]Hattie[/url] and my memory lapse Welcome to hell, welcome to hell, welcome to hell... Edited May 10, 2015 by chriswareham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 The Cures B sides were every bit as good as the A sides, sometimes better IMO. I'm Cold Throw your foot away. Man inside my mouth. Mr. Pink eyes The exploding boy to name a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzodog Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Beat my guest which was the b side to adam and the ants stand and deliver is one of my all time favourite tracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merton Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Def Leppard - Release Me, B side to Animal Sung by their (then) guitar tech (now tour manager). So good that, legend has it, the Greeks flipped A and B side and it went to number one. It is hilarious, you need to wait for the key change: https://youtu.be/iB6xYQOPnkY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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