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Favourite B-Side?

unearth some of your favourite rareities/b-sides...

gagging order- radiohead
Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream
MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack -Beck



  • One of my favourite is

    Echobelly - falling flame

  • following this thread

    I may make a cd full of good b sides ive never heard

    • Send me a copy?

      • will do HHC

        ill do it for frees, and it will be so obscure and out there youll have to approach it with the widest open arms ever

        • Like giving it a big hug?

          Sounds neat :)

          • yep

            like those 'ive been travelling for ages and im back on home turf' hugs................deal sorted.

            • Will do.

              I'm still managing to blag some of those myself, its ace!

        • Muxtape it!

  • I must have posted this about eighteen times, but

    Don't Stand Me Down by The Bluetones.

    • Thorn - My Bloody Valentine

      Acquiesce - Oasis
      Drive Blind - Ride

      • ash - sneaker

        foo fighters - colour and the shape
        placebo - slackerbitch
        engelbert humperdinck - lesbian seagul

      • ^^^

        highlight of the set in Manchester last Saturday. Wish they'd done Cigarette in my Bed too though.

    • I Was A Teenage Jesus

      • haha, great choice!

  • Aerial M - Last Caress

    • lots of old

      prodigy b-sides.... too many to mention!

    • Smog - Spanish Moss

      The a-side of Came Blue is probably my favourite track, God I want to find that 7".

      • Grandaddy - Taster

        but the winner has to be

        Kinks - Mindless Child of Motherhood.

  • bleck eyed dog - nick drake

    Verandi- Bjork( get this its brilliant if youve not heard it)
    Liars - army of me
    Cremation - Bright Eyes

  • Its always the quiet ones - BIffy Clyro

    Staying fat - Bloc Party

    Bigger boys and stolen Sweethearts - Arctic Monkeys

    • Six By Seven

      Get a Real Tattoo

      • I never really got into

        Six by Seven, but i do love this song

  • Meet me at the harbour - Idlewild

    and yes, I was a teenage jesus - The Bluetones

    • Pearl Jam

      Yellow Leadbetter, Leatherman, Footsteps.

      Ash - Where Is Our Love Going?
      Cannibal Ox - Metal Gear
      Pavement - The Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence

  • Velocity Girl - Primal Scream

    So good I can't even remember what it was the b-side to.

    • Crystal Crescent

      and yep, seconded. Velocity Girl is better than pretty much everything they've done since.

  • I really like Tulips by Bloc Party.

    For more than musical reasons :)

    • Coolio - Fantastic Voyage

      from Gansgters Paradise

  • Oasis

    D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman. Actually the best song he ever wrote, I think.

  • this

    mersey paradise

  • Biffy Clyro - Hope For An Angel

    The Killers - Change Your Mind
    Muse - Fury

    • also,

      No Place To Hide by Ash.

      • Yes! Best B-side ever!

        Also a big fan of Wolf's Story III by Strangelove (off Beautiful Alone), and Everyday by Buddy Holly (off Peggy Sue).

  • Exploding Boy - The Cure

    Set the ray to Jerry - Smashing Pumpkins
    All Your Life - Blur

    They're all quite old faves...I haven't bought any singles for a long time.

  • WEEZER's

    Suzanne
    You gave your love to me softly
    Mykle and Carly
    Waiting on you
    Teenage victory song
    jamie
    i just threw out the love of my dreams
    devotion

  • China Drum - Wuthering Heights

    Prince - Horny Toad

  • Pavement - 'Winner of the'

    The White Stripes - Good To Me
    Llama Farmers - Ice Lungs
    Eels - Fucker
    The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Alex
    Supergrass - 20ft Halo
    The Vines - Blues Riff
    Regular Fries - Maybe Mash Man
    Tar - Non-Allignment Pact
    Edwyn Collins - Welwyn Garden City
    McLusky - The Saltwater Solution
    Beck - Corvette Bummer
    Elevator Suite - Mirror Brain
    Queens Of The Stone Age - Never Say Never
    Future Of The Left - The Fibre Provider
    The Cows - In The Mouth
    Oasis - Acquiesce
    Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - I don't care to keep on being your slave
    Pinback - Todo
    Day One - Say No More
    Action Spectacular - Bill Clinton

  • I have a list of these in Excel somewhere:

    ah, here it is:

    Muse - The Groove
    Interpol - The Specialist
    Suede - Europe is Our Playground
    Weezer - Just Threw out the love of my dreams
    Radiohead - Faithless the Wonder Boy
    Adorable - Summerside
    Pulp - Razzmatazz
    Massive Attack - Euro Zero Zero
    Veruca Salt - My Sharona

    just a taster..

    • Crystal Crossed - Sebadoh

  • probably

    sonic youth - genetic

  • all my friends

    franz ferdinand

  • By far...

    It's Always The Quiet Ones

    Biffy Clyro on the My Recovery Injection EP

    Take the right step or you'll die.

    I think it is their best song.

    Like an unholy Led Zeppelin riff cprrupted by three hairy Ayrshiremen...
    Yaaah!

  • off the top of my head

    P.T.A - Pulp
    Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It - Belle & Sebastian
    Talk Show Host - Radiohead
    You - Divine Comedy
    Step Out - Oasis
    Disco 2000 - Nick Cave (It's on the b-side of Bad Cover Version by Pulp, except it's a good cover version.)
    Daft Punk is Playing At my House (Soulwax remix)
    Je ne Parle Pas Francais - Girls Aloud (It's Can't Speak French, in French, and it's amazing. Whoever's ordering them around is a genius.)

    • Any more for any more...

      Bloc Party - The Marshals Are Dead
      The Jesus And Mary Chain - Vegetable Man
      Swervedriver - Volcano Trash
      The Clash - 1977
      The Field Mice - Fabulous Friend
      Crass - Big A Little A
      Siouxsie And The Banshees - Pulled To Bits
      Slowdive - Shine

  • Million Dead - I Am Become The South

    Mclusky - random celebrity insult generator

  • few more

    Skeleton - Bloc Party
    Tonight we fly - The Divine Comedy
    Mercy, Mercy, Me - The Strokes & Eddie Vedder
    Let's all make believe - Oasis

    • biffy clyro

      instructio4
      i hope you're done
      stars and shites
      it's always the quiet ones
      miracle of survival
      a headline

  • .

    muse - eternally missed
    interpol - precipitate

    • .

      Kings Of Leon - Head To Toe
      The Strokes and Regina Spector - Postmodern Girls and Old Fashioned Men
      Bloc Party - Tulips

      • Cuttooth

        by Radiohead or Hawaii by the Strokes i reckon

  • Probably

    Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend ft Dizzee Rascal, the b-side to Brianstorm by Arctic Monkeys

  • Neil's Children - Stupid Band

    Liars - Volcano police
    Snow White - (I Really Fucking Hate) Trust Fund Punks
    The Long Blondes - Autonomy Boy
    The Long Blondes - Fullwood Babylon

    Pretty much every Nirvana or MBV B-side