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  2. Want me to wade in? Oh okay:
    EatB – Ignoring the Shine So Hard ep, Way Out and Up We Go, Broke My Neck [Long Version}, Lips Like Sugar [Single Version], Bedbugs And Ballyhoo (Original Single Version), Angels And Devils (Live) ocht! and many more
    Suede – To The Birds, HiRising, Bentswood Boys, Whipsnade and many many more

  8. Blur – French Song B-side to Tender

    This is so groovy. It’s like a lost Pebbles garage instrumental track. Fruggin’ excellent. It’s a got a taste of Bert’s Apple Crumble by The Quik about it.

    • Dreams of Children too, which I think was technically a double A-side with Going Underground, but who remembers that now? Lisa Radley, B-side of Start, borrows the bass riff from its A-side. The Jam did a lot of proper B-sides.

      Incidentally, I remember singles used to say something like ‘Roxanne B/W Peanuts’ on the cover. I assume that B/W means ‘backed with’? There was C/W as well I think.

  14. Joy Division’s “Dead Souls” was originally the B-side of “Atmosphere” on the Sordide Sentimentale limited release 7″ single. And very fine it is too.

  21. I was going to go for the Floyd’s “Candy and a Currant Bun”, but that’s a bit too well known. Instead, here’s a great Roy Wood song only on a b-side:

  23. New Order had form. Lonesome Tonight was on the flip of Thieves Like Us. Procession back up Everything’s Gone Green.
    The Cure’s Mr Pink Eyes from Lovecats, The Exploding Boy from In Between Days, many others.
    The Human League had so many ace Dare-era b-sides they ended up releasing an album of them.
    And who could forget “Funky Combine, John!”, flipside to The Farmer’s Boys’ “Muck It Out”. here goes nothing…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOap_rbPgqc

  28. Hidden away on the back of “Here Comes Your Man”, just past the big quasar.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bToet4R7Hec

    (“Into The White” – Pixies)

    I was going to suggest “I’ve Been Waiting For You”, but was thrown a bit by realising after all this time that it was actually a Neil Young cover rather than a Pixies original!

    There’s a thread there perhaps, “Songs you only realised were covers many years later”…

  29. In years gone by, when I were a lad, when it was all just fields etc etc
    A lot of bands would invest time in producing a decent song fro the B-Side. Inveraibly this was a styand-alone, and not on any album.

    The Jam were always great value for B-Sides (Butterfly Collector, Dreams Of Children, Liza Radley, Tales From The Riverbank, Smithers Jones, Carnaby Street).
    Oasis delivered some fine B Sides too: Acquiesce, The Masterplan, Fade Away, Stay Young, Going Nowhere, Half A World Away.

    During Sweet’s bubblegum Chinnichap period, they’d often have a self-penned belter on the B-Side. When they started putting these on the A Side, the hits slowly dried up (is there a lesson there?)

    My choice: the flip side of “Running Free” (Iron Maiden’s debut single) – Burning Ambition

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