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Good to hear someone talk about Nativity In Black. One of the few cover albums I enjoy in their own right. Great video!

Elderberry Wine on B-side of Crocodile Rock. One of my fav's!

I'm a big fan of the Stones "Undercover" album as well. I remember buying it when it first came out. And YES, I peeled the stickers off. Only to be disappointed. 😂

This was a great video. You could do a ten hour video of this for sure!

Great video. Some of my favourite non album B sides are by Oasis and their B side compilation The Masterplan is one of my favourite albums of the 90s even though technically it was a compilation!

Great video! Tons of great stuff mentioned here. A couple other strange b-sides: The Who's mid-1960s single Substitute had a b-side recorded by a different band, the song was Waltz For a Pig. Also the 1968 Neil Diamond single Two-Bit Manchild had a track called Broad Old Woman (6 A.M. Insanity) on the b-side, in which the take breaks down several times and much of the playing time is filled with discussion about how the song should go and joking around.

The Jam had some lovely B Sides

Awesome selection of songs I forget sometimes.

Huge Prince fan! Glad to hear you give him some love here! As much as I love "Erotic City" my favorite b-side is "17 days" from the "When doves cry" single! The full length version was leaked as a bootleg a few years ago and is amazing! As for "Gotta stop (messin' about)", it was also released as the lead song on a US 12" promo as well as the 2 UK releases of it. You also mentioned how "The hits/The b-sides" CD has a whole CD of his b-sides. Believe it or not, that disc didn't include all the b-sides up to that point. It was missing "Love or $" the b-side of "Kiss" and "Alexa De Paris" the b-side of "Mountains". As great as the b-sides disc is, it is only the short versions of the songs. To really appreciate some of the songs like "Another lonely Christmas", "Hello", "She's always in my hair", "Feel u up", "Girl", etc etc etc. you need to hear the full length versions on the original 12" singles! The "We are the world" album also includes the original version of the Prince song "4 the tears in your eyes" only available here ("Hello" was written about the flack he took for not singing on the song "We are the world"). The song is included as a stripped down version on "The b-sides". So, um, yeah. Sorry I got carried away LOL! I have over 400 Prince 12" singles from 20+ countries and still going :D

I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD PUT THE GRAND FUNK B SIDE DESTITUTE AND LOSING A CORKER!!!! GREAT VIDEO!!!

Cool video and topic, I have 5-6 Prince 45's and the b-sides are all killer. No Alternative and the Carpenters tribute are both great comps too. Yellow Ledbetter was a soundtrack to one of my teenage summers. I forgot about how fun it was to find a hidden CD track. - Scott

Yes! Undercover is a great, underrated albums. Springsteen and U2 always put out a lot of excellent b-sides

new subscriber today. great channel! a few of my favorite non-album B-sides from CD singles are: 1) "Si Certo Qui Si Non Sapere Niente" by Deadeye Dick ("New Age Girl" CD single) 2) "Too Much Too Soon" by Green Day (from "American Idiot" CD single) 3) "Don't Shilly Shally" by Edwyn Collins (original version from "A Girl Like You" cd single)

Thank you for the recommendations, they sound intriguing. I always seem to find something in your videos that's either insightful and/or entertaining; thought provoking. Somewhere in there you said something about putting yourself back in the time of the millennium, and what came up for me was being at a local flea market and finding an advance copy of a used CD I'd never heard of: Jim White's "The Strange Tale of Wrong-Eyed Jesus". With the weirdest cardboard sleeve artwork, I gladly paid a dollar and put this on when I got home....never heard anything like it before. This was just before 9/11, and this disc's narrative almost felt like prophesy, in a way I can't describe. I had gone online and saw that Mr. White had been a cab driver in New York. So weird. Anyway, it's worth a listen; you should check it out.

My memory is a bit hazy on exact dates, but back in September or October of 1996, a NYC radio station broadcasted a Nirvana A-Z special; every song the band had ever recorded, and in alphabetical order. Actually, that minus 7 - there was a contest at the end of it where if the right caller could correctly name the seven songs that didn't get played, the winner would receive some goodies. It was a one night only thing, and it lasted for HOURS...album tracks, covers, B-sides, outtakes, live recordings, etc. Now, I didn't catch all of it (I was in and out at various points, so maybe half?), but I caught a hell of enough of it to say that I became an even bigger Nirvana fan than I already was after experiencing that awesome night. I still have much of this program recorded across a mixtape (or two). After that, I would always spot many import Nirvana CD singles in the record/CD shops when browsing, but being they were so expensive (and me being in high school at the time), I didn't have nearly enough money to acquire them, so I never bought any. However, I did buy a German import disc that contained a bunch of those B-sides/outtakes/non-album tracks, and - indeed - "Sappy" was then known as "Verse Chorus Verse"; that's what it was called when I heard it on the radio back in '93/'94, and that's what it's listed as on my B-sides/outtakes disc. You like KISS (as do I.) Did you know Nirvana covered "Do You Love Me?"? It's on some rare compilation that I think is out of print. I, too, love "Burn" from NIN; killer track - I have that on the deluxe edition of The Downward Spiral (great album.) I love a bunch of Smashing Pumpkins' B-sides, and their B-sides/outtakes disc called Pisces Iscariot got listened to like crazy. Prince's catalogue is a mess, lol. I have that same Hits/B-sides box set. Like one commenter mentioned, he's got tons of B-sides and outtakes, and on top of that, he's got extended versions of those (along with his extended A-sides). It's insane. I'm a Prince fan, but I'll admit that, unlike the one commenter, I haven't gone quite that deep down the rabbit hole. Long post. Awesome video!

Bryan Adams refused to put "Diana" on the Reckless remaster because he felt it was too disrespectful to Princess Diana after her death/murder. And I gotta agree... I love Undercover. Bought it brand new and immediately loved "Too Much Blood". It didn't age too well but aged well enough for me to still love it.

Thanks for another fun video. I have the Grand Funk 45. I also have the No Alternative comp on cassette and had no idea about the Nirvana song, so I'll check that out. With regard to "Yellow Ledbetter", it's definitely a child of "Little Wing." "North and South of the River" (which borrows heavily from David Bowie's "Can You Hear Me" from Young Americans) that backed U2's "Staring at the Sun" is a great song. Ghost has a song called "Zenith" which is the b-side to the radio edit of "Cirice" which appears on a yellow 10" only available in the Meliora box set. The Bright Eyes songs "Well Whiskey", "I Woke Up with This Song in My Head This Morning" and "True Blue" do very well backing up their single "Lua" making for one of my favorite single EPs. The UK band Gene did a great job of "Don't Let Me Down" on one of their early singles, I can't remember which one.

I do remember hearing Hey Hey on the radio here and there in the 70s, but the one I remember being played incessantly in the 90s was Traveling Riverside Blues.

Having only owned/heard the cassette version of Beck's "Loser," I assumed you were listing "Alcohol" as one of your favorite b-sides (I always loved that song)- interesting to hear that he had so many others around that time. Also I'm surprised that Geffen still hasn't released a deluxe edition of "Mellow Gold."

I found The Immigrant Song in a pile of used jukebox 45's a couple years after it was released, and when I flipped it over, Hey Hey blew my mind! This is one of the greatest two-sided singles in the history of vinyl! Later on, when I worked in the radio biz, I found a stereo copy on the LP The New Age Of Atlantic, which you can still get online for about $30...

GREAT Subject!

Nice vid again! And you sound like a real Dutchy how you pronounced Bettie Serveert! Chapeau!👍😊

I always thought it was cool that the first CD releases of Nevermind had that hidden track way at the end. Found it because my CD player showed that the track time was still running long after Something In The Way was finished. So I fast-forward and there it was, a hidden song, no reference to it on the CD and it wasn't there on subsequent releases. Even the giant Nevermind deluxe set I have on vinyl, that song is not there. Someone told me the song's title, but I don't recall.

Definitely Hey Hey What Can I Do, one of my top 10 Zep songs. I didn't experience ear fatigue back then. Never knew it existed until about 5 years ago.

In regards to the We Are The World release, in addition to Bruce Springsteen's Trapped cover is Steve Perry's If Only For The Moment Girl which is great! As a Springsteen fan the other 45 B Sides are Santa Claus is Comin' To Town and Roulette. Great to have those on vinyl for sure.

One b-side that wasn't available anywhere else that I LOVE is the Byrds' She Don't Care About Time which was the b-side of their Turn Turn Turn single. Also the Rolling Stones' Child Of The Moon which was the b-side of Jumpin' Jack Flash.

I shall try some of the songs you talk about Do you know that "Prince' is Swedens most popular cigarette brand. Nice T shirt by the way.....

Diana….It was on the UK 12 inch EP for Bryan’s “Heaven” single.

I just heard “Who Scared You” on Big Planet Noise the other night

"time to play B-sides"

“Through the Lonely Night” B side to “It’s only Rock n Roll”. Rolling Stones. Great Song, pity it wasn’t on an album

Hey Hey What Can I Do was rereleased in the 80s as a reprint 45 and CD single. It's now available on the extended 3CD version of Coda. Iron Maiden is releasing an anniversary edition of Number of the Beast packaged with Beast over Hammersmith on vinyl. Steve Harris swapped out Gangland with Total Eclipse on the NOTB record, putting it at the second to last position on the album where Gangland was. He says he realized they picked the wrong track and should have used Gangland for the Run To The Hills B side.

"One up the B Side' by Ozzy is the b side to Bark at the Moon. Great song and maybe one of the only 'b sides' to have 'b side' in the actual title of the song...

I had that Grand Funk 45 too!

I have an official 20th anniversary pressing of in utero which has a bonus disc with extras and b-sides such as sappy and marigold etc. Sappy is a killer track.

Heading right now to check out that GNR song.

Judging from the other hard rock artists you mentioned you would love Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion Side B vinyl, if you can find it.

I think the reason Springsteen didn't re-release Trapped is that it is a cover. Original by Jimmy Cliff, a B-Side itself on the Harder they Come single. They rerecorded it for 1989's Images and made a video for it.

I actually remember a segment on Enetertainment Tonight, If I remember correctly about the then newly released If I Were A Carpenter. I saw a clip of the video to Superstar. It sounded so dark and gloomy.

"JAR" is my favorite Green Day song! I only have it on my "International Superhits" cd. Didn't Cher duet with Beevis and Butthead on their soundtrack?

Billy Joel has through the long night and U2 always had great b sides which they have released on CD....I just got Living in America by James Brown and there is a tune Farewell by Vince Dicola on the b side...Talking Heads - Burning Down the House the B side I get wild wild gravity....Pink Cadilac by Springsteen was a b side on Dancing in the Dark...GREAT Topic dude

Pastoral and worth a listen. Blur had some good ones. French version of ‘To the End’. Beats grand funk railroad for sure…

I have a 7" with the Sonic Youth and Redd Kross Carpenters covers. I went to a Circle Jerks Carpenters Tribute show right after Karen died. Who is Bryon Adams? My copy of Loser has Steve Threw Up on the B side. I have that Let's Work 12". It was my favorite song from the album so I just bought the 12". I told a Tim Conway Jr story about We Are The World on a video way back. I may retell it. Pretty funny. My roommate was obsessed with Flash Dance.

Luna "Slash Your Tires". Band leader Dean Warhem? Was leader of famous indie band Galaxie 500. On Fire is their great album. "Tugboat Captain" maybe their best song.

Songbird by Fleetwood Mac is really good on the Dreams 45.

Love the Pavement song off No Alternative

Best bands for B-Sides Maybe Radiohead over 25 B-Sides from first 3 album (Only Albums That Count) Suede (Or London Suede in the US) & The Cure - Japanese Imports add B-sides to CDs to trick you into buying them, Doesn't work if you buy all the singles (unless the single was a 7" and you want a CD copy of the song - the way God Intended It to be listened to). Crackers version of 'Rainy Days And Mondays" is gold - also nice magic flip with the CD to 7"

I had that Hey Hey What Can I Do single but I think it was a Japanese release or something.

A couple of years ago, Ghost released a great single called Seven Inches of Satanic Panic, with 2 new great tracks and a funny concept. The idea was that those were two lost tracks recorded by an earlier version of Ghost in the late 60s. Therefore the songs have a mix of modern sound with some psychedelic touches.

since they are b-sides I dont know a lot of these, but I remember that madonna song for sure!!! 😁😁

Is there a version of Natalie Coles Pink Caddilac sung by Springsteen ?

Erasure had many bsides, the most were oasis and blur.

My favourite b side of all time is deep purple 💜 When a Blind man cries song which was not part of machine head lp did not make the cut also like bad company easy on my soul flip side of moving on single also can't forget bryan Adam hey elvis from what looks good on me is you single

The Guns % Roses song sounds derived from that mid 90's Nine Inch Nails / Marilyn Manson industrial dance metal sound.

Cure and Pet Shop Boys put all their b sides together

Try "Screaming Night Hog" by Steppenwolf on Dunhill records.

Mr. Fithen, your saying that the singing on "Superstar" is "like he's singing on a radio from Heaven" made me think of the song "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator)" from Eraserhead. That song was composed and performed by Peter Ivers. He was also the host of New Wave Theatre. He was murdered and the case is unsolved to this day. I'm not a betting man, but I'd bet that you're familiar with the show. I guess that makes me a betting man. Are you familiar with the band Unit: 3 With Venus? They performed the song "B.O.Y.S." on New Wave Theatre. The singer of the band, Venus DeBaun, was a child. Her parents were also in the band. Daddy sang bass, mama sang . . . Sorry. Her mama played the bass and her daddy played keyboards. Their performance can be seen here on KZfaq. I prefer their song "Beer." A performance of that song can also be seen here on KZfaq. It was filmed for the 1981 documentary Surfpunks. In that song, Venus, the pint-sized air-raid siren, belts out these hard-hitting lyrics: "Beer! Beer isn't good for you! I don't like beer!" "Bring back Prohibition! We must stop the Hun!" I hear you yelling. No, settle down. I'm not a drinking man, but I don't like Wayne Wheeler. Adding poison to industrial alcohol isn't good for you. My comments are good for you, I'm sure you'll agree. Thanks for indulging me. If you want to indulge your taste for rare punk singles you can buy the 7" for "Beer" right now on Discogs for $180 (plus $5 for shipping and handling). The most it sold for is $500. Why anyone would pay that much money for the record is another mystery. When did punks become so rich?

Iron maiden covered Australian skyhook's " women in uniform".

Def Leppard has a lot of very good non album B- sides.

I'd think Corvette Bummer is a play on the Luke Skywalker movie Corvette Summer.

You my Name (Look Up the Number) by the Beatles made me curious to look up who the hell Denis O'Dell was...lol

I have No Alternative. It's great.

Sweet's Little Willy was only on 45 in the beginning.

I always thought Elton John, "Young Man's Blues" was decent. The B-side to GYBR.

Look for Bryan Adam debut in 1979 .disco.

I always wondered if anyone would ever recognize Girl On LSD by Tom Petty. I was 10 maybe 11 years old when I got the cassette single for You Don't Know How It Feels, and just playing that B-Side and singing it around the house, its a fun song. I feel like I can do a video about rare tracks and B-sides that I like, there is like a lot, for instance, there is a movie that came out in the 90's called Boys On The Side, and the big song on that soundtrack was Bonnie Raitt covering Roy Orbison's You Got It, but my favorite track was The Pretenders covering Every Day Is Like Sunday, way better than Morrissey's original. There's a song that my friend Billy Steinberg wrote with Rick Nowels & Kylie Minogue, called Whenever You Feel Like It, its was intended for her 2000 album, Light Years and almost went on the Fever album, but instead got released on the soundtrack for the first Scooby Doo movie, even though it doesn't appear on the film, there is a better mix that was released as part of the bonus disc for the UK and Canada release of Fever. Great video Robert!!!

Elton john gave us so many b sides.

Most notorious in my mind is the B side to "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police, an utter disappointment called "Someone to Talk To." If my memory of the Message in a Box booklet is correct, Sting didn't like the song and refused to sing it, essentially backing out at the last minute and infuriating Stewart. Andy's attempt to sing his own song is godawful, and the lyrics of the verses are clunky. Now I've never liked the CD bonus track to Synchronicity "Murder By Numbers." Would "Someone To Talk To" have been the better bonus closer if Sting had sung it and finessed the lyrics of the verses? Because the arrangement and guitar solo are amazing. That's my alternate reality Synchronicity CD.

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Magazine B side. cover Captain Beefhearts I love you, you big dummy. Buzzcocks B side Whatever happened to...

I know it's like, your opinion man, but your "opinion" about Blur is wrong. No good B-sides? Maybe the best non-album b-side ever -- "Young and Lovely" - b-side to "Chemical World" from Modern Life is Rubbish. "The Man Who Left Himself" and "Tame" were besides to "Stereotypes" from The Great Escape. Also: Eine Kleine Lift Music, All Your Life, A Spell (For Money), Swallows in the Heatwave, So You, and Sir Elton John's Cock. I hope that was just one of your little jokes because .... otherwise, I'm gonna go have a good long cry. Anyways -- another great video. I looked up a lot of the songs you mentioned as I watched b/c I'd never heard of them. Love that Springsteen and Luna song. Loved Luna's Bewitched album and "Tiger Lilly Girl." That Guns n Roses was... well maybe the Blur opinion makes sense