great thread; I didnt buy many singles growing up... I think Tell me Why was the B side of Hard Days Night, and I loved that... probably the US capitol version
Raped and Freezin on the B side of No More Mister Nice Guy was bizarre, but what a groove.
--- On Fri, 10/22/10, fiftyoooomilesbeneathmybrain <lululamott@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> From: fiftyoooomilesbeneathmybrain <lululamott@hotmail.co.uk>
> Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] "time to play 'B' sides.'"
> To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 10:34 AM
> I was listening to Blue Oyster Cult's
> 'Burning for You' and that line- which is the title of this
> message - made me think. For those of us
> who grew up in the hey day of classic rock, sixties and
> seventies, there was a musical pleasure that has gone the
> way of the record player, into obscurity and treasured only
> by insane devotees of such musical arcana. (And yes I count
> myself as one such.) Those were the days when you went into
> the record shop and brought the latest single by Mott or
> Free or Roxy, whoever you were into. And there was an
> unknown pleasure that awaited you in the form of the 'b'
> side. Sometimes it was an album track that you already knew,
> somtimes it was naff and you never listened to it again, but
> sometimes you discovered an unknown treasure by your
> favourite band and the 'B; side got as much play as the
> 'A'.
>
> Anybody got any favourite ;'B' sides? Any memories of the
> awful ones? Did you anticipate them from the moment
> you got that 45 in your hot little hands or just ignore
> them?
>
> My fave 'b' - where do you all come from? B of Mott's
> all the way from Memphis. Worst, Don't blame me, b of
> Slade's Merry xmas everybody.
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