The Beauty of the B-Side
Stephen McCauley explores and celebrates B-sides in all their idiosyncratic glory.
The rise of music streaming has effectively made the 鈥榖-side鈥 redundant but b-sides occupy a unique space in music history.
A vestige of physical media, the b-side was a track, or tracks, that artists put on the other side of a 7鈥 single. It escaped the journalistic scrutiny applied to a-sides and albums and, as a result, represented a free space where artists could experiment and try out different ideas.
Many b-sides were nothing more than filler but most were fascinating and, in quite a few cases, better or more significant than the a-side single itself. Stephen McCauley explores and celebrates the beauty of the b-side including iconic flip-sides from The Smiths, Elvis Presley, Bjork, Lafaro, Oasis, PJ Harvey, Aphex Twin, Duke Special and The Cure.
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The Smiths
How Soon Is Now
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Elvis Presley
Hound Dog
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Stereolab
French Disko
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The Cure
The Exploding Boy
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Iggy Pop
Passenger
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Primal Scream
Velocity Girl
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Joy Division
Novelty
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The Beatles
Rain
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Oasis
Half The World Away
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Nirvana
Aneurysm
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The Undertones
Mars Bar
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Bonobo
Nightlite (Bonobo Remix)
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Them
Gloria
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Ramones
I Wanna Be Sedated
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Ash
Don't Know
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Aphex Twin
Flim
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Bob Dylan
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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PJ Harvey
Memphis
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The Cure
Too Late
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New Order
1963
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Jetplane Landing
My Father's Hands
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The Doors
Lovestreet
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McCarthy
We Are All Bourgeois Now
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Manic Street Preachers
Hibernation
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Little Richard
Reddy Teddy
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Radiohead
Talkshow Host
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Judy Street
What
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The Beatles
I Am The Walrus
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Therapy?
Pantopon Rose
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LaFaro
All Of These Things
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The Cure
A Foolish Arrangement
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叠箩枚谤办
Karvel
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Why'd You Want Me
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Rod Stewart
Maggie May
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Magazine
My Mind Ain't So Open
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The Velvet Underground
Rock and Roll
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The Afghan Whigs
Rot
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David Bowie
Suffragette City
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Duke Special
Quiet Revolutionaries
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The Beach Boys
God Only Knows
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