I didn't buy that many singles, suspect the count would be somewhere between
10 and 20. Having said that, they were kinda cool at the time.
B-sides weren't something that I thought about, and while some proved to be
pretty good, there were times that I never gave the b-side a chance.
Best example is Grand Funk's Locomotion. I played that song a million times
as a kid, but even today, I had to look it up on the web to know what the
other side was. Turns out the song is "Destitute and Losin'", I can't really
say it was a terrible b-side, since I'm not sure I ever played it ;)
Clint
----- Original Message -----
From: "fiftyoooomilesbeneathmybrain" <lululamott@hotmail.co.uk>
To: <Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:34 AM
Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] "time to play 'B' sides.'"
>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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