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Thousand Made-Up Loves

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Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« on: December 25, 2010, 12:43:22 am »
Pearl Jam's "Leatherman" is #2.

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2010, 12:52:43 am »
you're talking to the wrong generation . . . downloads don't have b-sides.

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2010, 01:16:51 am »
i'm not familiar with a whole lot of B-sides (always been a full album kinda guy), but i have no doubt that TSH is high on the list.  nice pull.

(walkies, do you ever feel like you need some new material?  if you're going to shit all over threads, could you at least make it new shit?  merry xmas!!!)
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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2010, 01:27:39 am »
shouldn't we be in bed dreaming of santa claus?  i'm watching emmit otter's jugband christmas.

Thousand Made-Up Loves

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2010, 09:13:06 am »
Beautiful is probably Belle and Sebastian's #1 B-side. #2 would be I Love My Car.

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2010, 12:34:21 pm »
TMUL needs a blog for all his rants.
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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2010, 01:09:49 pm »

pulp's is either "Ansaphone" or "Cocaine Socialism."

blur's is either "Swallows in a Heat Wave" or "Theme From an Imaginary Film."

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2010, 04:00:44 pm »
i don't know..

led zep's hey hey what can i do may just be the best TRUE b-side.. i don't think talk show host is even a true b-side...was there even a 45 with it?


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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2010, 06:58:31 pm »

(walkies, do you ever feel like you need some new material?  if you're going to shit all over threads, could you at least make it new shit?  merry xmas!!!)

fine . . . the obvious answer is strawberry fields forever, since it was the beatles best song, and the fact that it is a b side while being an a side at the same time.

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2010, 09:26:12 pm »

(walkies, do you ever feel like you need some new material?  if you're going to shit all over threads, could you at least make it new shit?  merry xmas!!!)

fine . . . the obvious answer is strawberry fields forever, since it was the beatles best song, and the fact that it is a b side while being an a side at the same time.

I hate to be a stickler but as it was included on Magical Mystery Tour lp (US version) to me its no b-side.


A true b-side is a song you can only get as a b-side..at least for a decade or two...

This is whats remarkable about Hey hey what can I do... it wasn't available other than as a b-side until the early 90s zep box.... about 20 years only available on that 45..

anyways i'm sure there are other great b-sides

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2010, 10:18:01 pm »

There are songs that are a B-side and they are the band's (arguably) most recognizable song.

To wit:

"Dear God" by XTC was initially the B-side of "Grass", also from "Skylarking."

And although it was eventually released as an A-side on its own, "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths was originally the B-side of "William, It was Really Nothing."

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2010, 11:16:29 pm »
shouldn't we be in bed dreaming of santa claus? 

nah, i was tracking santa on NORAD.

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Thousand Made-Up Loves

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2011, 04:18:15 pm »
TMUL needs a blog for all his rants.

I'm not into blogging. I just like bbs'ing.

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Re: Talk Show Host is the greatest B-Side ever recorded
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2011, 04:22:12 pm »
I know the correct definition of a b-side, but I would say, in this day in age, a b-side is a song that doesn't make an official album.

You and Whose Army? is also a killer Radiohead b-side.