Weird or Wonderful 'B' sides - Page 5

**mizlaplan** · December 14th, 2013, 09:22 PM

Foreigner - Street Thunder
The "B" side to "I want to know what love is".
One of my favourite rock instrumentals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQpxRBtkJs

**NIN** · December 15th, 2013, 02:26 AM

I remember after the Sex Pistols were done & dusted, PiL seemed to be the afterglow which was all well and good, but i recall the news came out midweek in NME or Sounds or some similar pulp news-sheet that Steve Jones & Paul Cook were to team up with a 'greaser' (who were then mortal enemies in counter-culture

) Andy Allan was to join them on Bass - This new band was to be called "The Professionals"

Great debut release on Virgin was Just Another Dream

B side, an instrumental ..
Action Man

This is pure & simple rocked-up 12 bar blues (or whatever it is - I like it) the kind of sound if Status Quo were being jammed out by Cook & Jones, pure Pistols sound, the vibe you can feel when musicians are playing something they're enjoying.
Back then as a (just) pre-teen , we didn't have our own record players & had to use the family gramophone or music-centre

but the vibe was back in the room & we loved it.

**NIN** · January 16th, 2014, 07:38 PM

Along with some other bands who made it big in the 80s, Tears For Fears made some cracking experimental B sides. This one was from the breif period when Roland & Curt split.
One of two fine tracks on the flip side of "Break It Down Again", & written by Roland Orzabal (who had claimed the TFF name for his own) this track has more than a few echos of the Beatles

Schrödinger's Cat

(Last Train to Norwich)
Yea summer days that blind your face
Will soon be dead and gone.
Better get it on,
Tuned to a day the babe against the world, yeah.

You took the best seat will you risk it,
When the chips were down.
Better make it long...
Schrödingers' cat is dead to the world.

You say your cat sees in the dark,
You criticize the play and isolate the box,
I always knew you were a scientist at heart.

Just as the breeze with speed and build,
You sat upon the fence.
Clucking like a chicken making perfect sense.

Pass that gun, hand me that knife,
Man's little monster has been brought back to life.

You say your cat sees in the dark,
You criticize the flow and isolate the box.
I always knew you were a scientist at heart,
I always knew you were...

(Last Train to Norwich)
Schrödingers cat is dead to the world

mayberryfloyd · January 16th, 2014, 10:49 PM

One of the first singles I ever bought was No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper. That's an awesome song that was big on radio at the time. As a kid I knew that Alice offended a lot of people, but I didn't really know anything about his albums. It was amazing to me that a song titled Raped and Freezin' would even make it on the B-side. In this case it was the guy who gets raped, and it wasn't really involuntary anyway, so it amounts to a great B-side song that just happens to have a misleading and controversial title. My parents must have heard the song 100 times without ever catching on to the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROx1Vyc67Ec

**winebeavis** · January 17th, 2014, 02:11 AM

I believe the only single from Led Zeppelin III

Was "Immigrant Song." The B side was "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" that for decades was only available on a 45 rpm single.

Hey, Hey What Can I Do was probably one of the most played "B sides" ever in the states that was only a B side.

See Hey, Hey, What Can I do here.

However, the 1960s "British Invasion" was a different time period when one a single from one time period could be a B side from an album single. So I'm not counting that era. Kind of the wild west there.

**AmateurEmale** · February 3rd, 2014, 01:35 AM

Whitesnake had a B-side that eventually made the band's greatest hits album: "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", possibly my favorite song by Whitesnake because it sounds more like thrash metal than hard rock. If Whitesnake ever plugged it in more than they usually did in the '80s, and made about five or ten more songs as heavy as "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", they would have been more popular into the '90s, when I decided that I like them. Here is the YouTube link to the song: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noo7zG8v0m0>

**wimbo77** · November 18th, 2015, 08:03 PM

Here are a couple of B sides i like...

Jamiroquai - Space Clav (Instrumental) 1994 (Half the Man single)

The Verve - Echo Bass 1998 (Sonnet single)

The Smiths - Money Changes Everything (Instrumental) 1986 (Bigmouth... 7'')

The Police - Shambelle (Instrumental) 1981 (Invisible Sun 7'')

Electronic - Lean To The Inside (Instrumental) 1991 (Feel Every Beat 7'')

tonstu04 · December 29th, 2015, 08:23 PM

When I was a teenager at school in the UK in the 70s a group of us used to spend the lunch break at one of our houses, and one time at mine I played them the B side of the latest single by The Sweet and asked them to guess who it was, and nobody had a clue. The B sides of all their "chart friendly" singles were self penned hard rock songs, in fact their LPs consisted of half a dozen bubblegum songs, and the rest of the tracks sounded like they had been included by mistake. I saw them live in 74 and it was like a heavy metal concert, all the little screaming girls couldn't get their heads round it when they were playing all their b sides and LP tracks.

rubberjohnny · December 31st, 2015, 01:51 PM

Discovered this recently on FB (I haven't heard the A-Side though).
Ian Dury - Eugenius (You're a genius)
B-side to 'Profoundly in love with Pandora'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqjqhbqTmU

December 14th, 2013, 09:22 PM	#41
mizlaplan Good show! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Marches Posts: 2,526 Thanks: 102,981 Thanked 31,897 Times in 2,528 Posts	Foreigner - Street Thunder The "B" side to "I want to know what love is". One of my favourite rock instrumentals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQpxRBtkJs __________________ motley crew though they were, they were all happily united in the roisterous, bawdy camaraderie of lust.

December 15th, 2013, 02:26 AM	#42
NIN Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,823 Thanks: 200,569 Thanked 131,967 Times in 9,045 Posts	at the end of the seventies.... I remember after the Sex Pistols were done & dusted, PiL seemed to be the afterglow which was all well and good, but i recall the news came out midweek in NME or Sounds or some similar pulp news-sheet that Steve Jones & Paul Cook were to team up with a 'greaser' (who were then mortal enemies in counter-culture ) Andy Allan was to join them on Bass - This new band was to be called "The Professionals" Great debut release on Virgin was Just Another Dream B side, an instrumental .. Action Man This is pure & simple rocked-up 12 bar blues (or whatever it is - I like it) the kind of sound if Status Quo were being jammed out by Cook & Jones, pure Pistols sound, the vibe you can feel when musicians are playing something they're enjoying. Back then as a (just) pre-teen , we didn't have our own record players & had to use the family gramophone or music-centre but the vibe was back in the room & we loved it.

January 16th, 2014, 07:38 PM	#43
NIN Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,823 Thanks: 200,569 Thanked 131,967 Times in 9,045 Posts	Along with some other bands who made it big in the 80s, Tears For Fears made some cracking experimental B sides. This one was from the breif period when Roland & Curt split. One of two fine tracks on the flip side of "Break It Down Again", & written by Roland Orzabal (who had claimed the TFF name for his own) this track has more than a few echos of the Beatles Schrödinger's Cat (Last Train to Norwich) Yea summer days that blind your face Will soon be dead and gone. Better get it on, Tuned to a day the babe against the world, yeah. You took the best seat will you risk it, When the chips were down. Better make it long... Schrödingers' cat is dead to the world. You say your cat sees in the dark, You criticize the play and isolate the box, I always knew you were a scientist at heart. Just as the breeze with speed and build, You sat upon the fence. Clucking like a chicken making perfect sense. Pass that gun, hand me that knife, Man's little monster has been brought back to life. You say your cat sees in the dark, You criticize the flow and isolate the box. I always knew you were a scientist at heart, I always knew you were... (Last Train to Norwich) Schrödingers cat is dead to the world Last edited by NIN; January 16th, 2014 at 08:11 PM.. Reason: forgot to name the 'A' side :o ... and added lyrics

January 16th, 2014, 10:49 PM	#44
mayberryfloyd Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 21 Thanks: 161 Thanked 724 Times in 21 Posts	Raped and Freezin' One of the first singles I ever bought was No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper. That's an awesome song that was big on radio at the time. As a kid I knew that Alice offended a lot of people, but I didn't really know anything about his albums. It was amazing to me that a song titled Raped and Freezin' would even make it on the B-side. In this case it was the guy who gets raped, and it wasn't really involuntary anyway, so it amounts to a great B-side song that just happens to have a misleading and controversial title. My parents must have heard the song 100 times without ever catching on to the lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROx1Vyc67Ec

February 3rd, 2014, 01:35 AM	#46
AmateurEmale Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: The 513 Posts: 1,825 Thanks: 16,644 Thanked 15,794 Times in 1,755 Posts	Whitesnake had a B-side that eventually made the band's greatest hits album: "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", possibly my favorite song by Whitesnake because it sounds more like thrash metal than hard rock. If Whitesnake ever plugged it in more than they usually did in the '80s, and made about five or ten more songs as heavy as "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", they would have been more popular into the '90s, when I decided that I like them. Here is the YouTube link to the song: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noo7zG8v0m0> Last edited by AmateurEmale; November 19th, 2015 at 03:27 PM.. Reason: omission

November 18th, 2015, 08:03 PM	#47
wimbo77 Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 9,115 Thanks: 130,160 Thanked 144,381 Times in 9,160 Posts	Here are a couple of B sides i like... Jamiroquai - Space Clav (Instrumental) 1994 (Half the Man single) The Verve - Echo Bass 1998 (Sonnet single) The Smiths - Money Changes Everything (Instrumental) 1986 (Bigmouth... 7'') The Police - Shambelle (Instrumental) 1981 (Invisible Sun 7'') Electronic - Lean To The Inside (Instrumental) 1991 (Feel Every Beat 7'')

December 29th, 2015, 08:23 PM	#48
tonstu04 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Thanks: 943 Thanked 6 Times in 1 Post	When I was a teenager at school in the UK in the 70s a group of us used to spend the lunch break at one of our houses, and one time at mine I played them the B side of the latest single by The Sweet and asked them to guess who it was, and nobody had a clue. The B sides of all their "chart friendly" singles were self penned hard rock songs, in fact their LPs consisted of half a dozen bubblegum songs, and the rest of the tracks sounded like they had been included by mistake. I saw them live in 74 and it was like a heavy metal concert, all the little screaming girls couldn't get their heads round it when they were playing all their b sides and LP tracks.

December 31st, 2015, 01:51 PM	#49
rubberjohnny Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Somewhere wet & cold with occasional sunny spells. Posts: 55 Thanks: 337 Thanked 490 Times in 47 Posts	Discovered this recently on FB (I haven't heard the A-Side though). Ian Dury - Eugenius (You're a genius) B-side to 'Profoundly in love with Pandora'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqjqhbqTmU __________________ I'm here by a happy accident.

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