Favorite B Side

Mr. Fancypants · 02-01-2003 10:06am #1

Im not much of a single man, much prefer album buying. However, there is occasionally an extremly good reason for getting a single....a fantastic b side. There doesnt seem to be quite as many decent b sides released any more, or maybe im just getting old. Anyhow, what are your favorite b sides?

My favorite would have to be toss up between:

How Come You Dont Call Me Anymore by Prince b side to 1999
and
Irresistable Bitch b side to Lets Pretend We're Married also by Prince.
Both of those where released in 1982

PiE · 02-01-2003 7:02pm

"Medellia of the Gray Skies" from The Smashing Pumpkins 7-track single of "Tonight, Tonight".

Pencapchew · 02-01-2003 7:15pm

Aneurysm from Nirvana's teen spirit single is my number one.

That version of it is so much better than the one that appears on incesticide.

yellum · 02-01-2003 8:12pm

Radiohead - True Love Waits

Mr. Fancypants · 02-01-2003 8:48pm

Radiohead - True Love Waits

Cracking song

sticklebrick77 · 02-01-2003 10:50pm

dire tribe by gomez
slackerbitch by placebo
anyeurysm by nirvana

shabbyroad · 02-01-2003 10:54pm

cheating I know but here's two from over 20 years ago....God I'm getting old.....

'Ice Machine' b-side of 'Dreaming of Me' , Depeche Mode's 1st single

'Rainclouds' b-side of 'Ebony & Ivory', McCartney, featuring Paddy Moloney

Morn · 03-01-2003 9:38am

I always had a soft spot for 'Little Sister' on the B-side to Juniper's Weatherman single...

D-Generate · 03-01-2003 8:24pm

The Airplane Flies High from Thirty-Three by The Smashing Pumpkins

pyure · 03-01-2003 11:59pm

i dont usually buy singles, but i do have all the nirvana singles collected over the years, and each one has an amazing b-side

dive - from sliver single
aneurysm & even in his youth - from slts single
curmudgeon - from lithium single
marigold - heart shaped box single
moist vagina - all apologies single

5 singles, 11 quality tracks...now thats good goin

Kali · 04-01-2003 12:34am

off the top of my head

Jeff Buckley - Kangaroo (studio version, off the Last Goodbye or Grace singles?) .. probably one of the best examples of the connection he and the band had together.
Spiritualized - Rock 'n Roll (think it was off Stop your crying)
and while nirvana are mentioned.. School (i think twas off Come as you are)

apologies if my memory sucks

Raggamuffin · 04-01-2003 3:29am

pixies - into the white .off the wave of mutilation single i think.

Pigman · 04-01-2003 4:06am

Pumpkins just made great B-sides full stop! They were a band with quality in depth. Their whole Mellon Collie collection was almost as good as the album itself and should definetly be checked out by anyone who likes the band. I made a 20 track collection of all their singles b-sides from their 5 mellon collie singles and I still listen to it to this day.

1 said sadly
2 ugly
3 believe
4 cherry
5 meladori magpie
6 rotten apples
7 medillia of the gray skies
8 jupiters lament
9 blank
10 tonight reprise
11 god
12 mouths of babes
13 tribute to johnny
14 maquis in spades
15 pennies
16 the last song
17 the aeroplane flies high
19 transformer
19the bells
20 my blue heaven

check em out people!

Kolodny · 04-01-2003 7:35pm

/me hauls out and dusts off 7-inch and CD single collection....

'Sparkle' - Seal, b-side of 'Crazy', nice bouncy little track which sounds really different to everything else on his first album

'Salome' - U2, b-side of 'Even Better Than The Real Thing', there's also a great dance mix of this by Farley & Heller which is even better (sorry!)

'Taxi' - the other side of 'Hippy Chick' by Soho (the one with the guitar sample stolen from 'How Soon Is Now' - The Smiths and the two twins with odd matching dreadlock and shaved combo hairstyles, anyone else remember them?)

'Come to Me' (Black Dog Productions Mix) - Bjork, on the CD single of 'Big Time Sensuality' - although I love the original version this one is also amazing, really ambient and floaty

'A Case of You' - Tori Amos, on the 'Cornflake Girl' CD single (cover of the Joni Mitchell song, very well covered)

Can't think of any more right now.

Kopf · 04-01-2003 10:31pm

it's really food for thought how many people are mentioning the pumpkins in replies to this, but nobody's touched on the older b-sides, collected on the album "pisces iscariot". Plume is probably one of my favourite pumpkins songs (up there with hummer) taken from the I Am One single, and there's loads more like an acoustic version of dancing in the moonlight by thin lizzy from the Disarm Heart (or smile? i forget) single and soothe from.. i don't know what.

Mossy Monk · 05-01-2003 3:27am

Aneurysm from Smells Like Teen Spirit is a brilliant song

polarbelly · 07-01-2003 2:44am

the orchard on juniper's the world is dead single

smackbunnybaby · 07-01-2003 10:43am

Originally posted by PiE
"Medellia of the Gray Skies" from The Smashing Pumpkins 7-track single of "Tonight, Tonight".

thats mine as well

thedrowner · 07-01-2003 1:23pm

i love most manics b sides, in particular hibernation
jeff buckley-kanga*roo
radiohead-you never wash up after yourself
beck-sexx laws (remixed)
supergrass-its not me accoustic

Congoose · 07-01-2003 4:42pm

It has to be 'Talk Show Host' off the Radiohead Street Spirit single. 'Permanent Daylight' deserves a mention too - class song.

funktastic · 08-01-2003 10:20am

The stone roses-she bangs the drums single inc. mersey paradise and standing here

Gypsy eyes-Jimi hendrix experience

She belongs to me-Dylan

London's burning -the clash

and green onions-booker t and the mg's ,originally a b side

darthmise · 08-01-2003 12:18pm

Crazy! The first song that came into my head was Medelia of The Grey Skies when i saw this thread. And its already been mentioned twice!

Or Landslide, which was on disarm i think...

Woman Like A Man off the Canonball single... Damien Rice is savage too.

PiE · 08-01-2003 6:47pm

Damnit, Medellia is mine, mine! ;]

Pisces Iscariot is amazing, considering it's an album of B-Sides, they're just about all brilliant songs. Topic is Favourite B-Side, not Best B-Side though :]