What Are Your Favorite And Least-Favorite B Sides?

[Cabbage Patch Elvis]

The absolute best b-side ever:
The Turtles - Buzzsaw (flip side to You Showed Me)
Not one of my favorite bands by any stretch, but if they'd done more songs like this...

Pretenders - 2000 Miles (flip side to Middle of the Road)

Talking Heads - People Like Us (True Stories version with vocals by John Goodman)
(flip side to Wild Wild Life)
More for the novelty, but John Goodman's singing voice is actually pretty good!

[JaS]

"Jeane" by the Smiths. B side to the even more wonderful This Charming Man.

Agreed, fabulous song

However, I'm going with 'You'll Never See Me On A Sunday' from the B side of Marc and the Mamba's Torment. The A side is good, but this gets me every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLOdAi_X9pg



Regards,
JaS

[GlutenAllergyBoy]

Some top choices in other people's posts here, and it's nice to see other people also like my faves, like Goin' Down and Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man.
A personal favorite is "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight" on the b-side of Fleetwood Mac's "Man of the World". "Stone Free" on the back of "Hey Joe", too.
"Gloria" by Them was originally a b-side!
An artist on top form is likely to be producing such great music that their b-sides are better than others' a-sides - The Beatles, indeed and Hendrix, and early Elvis Costello singles too.
With UK sixties singles, you occasionally get an a-side that is a commercial song, but a b-side that is the group playing an old cover-song that they used to play in the clubs pre-fame - and you get to hear great white R&B that is the reason people liked them originally. Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, Manfred Mann, and even Billy J Kramer, singles are well worth flipping-over.
Sometimes we see "live" b-sides, which make you think that the band were so pleased with what they played, that they just "had to" get it released. REM sometimes did it, and Bowie's live "Panic In Detroit" on (was it) "Sorrow". Best-In-Show of live b-sides is probably Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" live in '66, on the "I Want You" single (in UK) - worth whatever you have to pay for it, and better than the version on the "Albert Hall 1966" album.

[Alec124c41]

Flip Top Box, on the back of ??? Ne Ne Na Na Na Na Nu Nu, around 1957.

Cheers,
Alec

[gvasale]

Remember "They're coming to take me away...ha ha...to the funny farm..." The "B" side was the same as the "A" side but backwards.

[Alec124c41]

Remember "They're coming to take me away...ha ha...to the funny farm..." The "B" side was the same as the "A" side but backwards.

I have that on a K-Tel collection, but not the B-side. Remember K-tel?

Cheers,
Alec

[gvasale]

Sure: they did a lot of "collections of various artists." Some other labels did the same, but not always with the artist that had the "hit."

BTW, I guess I'm not the first on this thread with that example. Sometimes I read the last post first...

[Dadimo]

Honorable mention here: The B side of Bernadette from the four tops on Tamla/Motown "I got a feeling" great song!

[jake]

"I went back to Ohio
but my city was gone-

way to go Ohio"

Deep stuff-
Pretenders' B-side to Back on the Chain Gang.

[Althecate1]

Locoricepizza wrote;

My pick would be the flip-side of "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind: "Cheryl's Going Home

Always loved John Otway and Wild Willy Barretts version of "Cheryl's Going Home just you tubed Bob Linds version, I like that too.

Alec