At the behest of Signor Ivan, whip out your 7"-ers, flip 'em over, and get those turntables spinning, chums!

Ball gets rolling here with priority given to Dr. Foxx:

Besides the Asides… part one

Air Miami – See-Through Plastic / (F*** You, Tiger)

Kate Bush – Under The Ivy / (Running Up That Hill)

Danielle Dax – When I Was Young / (Where The Flies Are)

John Foxx – A Kind of Wave / (Endlessly double-pack…technically a C-Side)

John Foxx – The Lifting Sky / (Your Dress double-pack…technically a C-Side)

The Human League – You Remind Me of Gold / (Mirror Man)

Japan – A Foreign Place / (Quiet Life)

Joy Division – These Days / (Love Will Tear Us Apart)

Nik Kershaw – Dark Glasses / (I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me)

Laptop – It’s Still Rock N Roll to Me / (Nothing to Declare)

New Order – 1963 / (True Faith)

New Order – Everything’s Gone Green / (Procession)

Gary Numan - Down in the Park (Piano Version) / (I Die: You Die)

Gary Numan - On Broadway (Live) / (Remember I Was Vapour (Live))

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - 4–Neu / (Genetic Engineering)

Pet Shop Boys – One of the Crowd / Your Funny Uncle (It’s Alright)

I'll think of some others when I get a minute

Only one winner for me - "This Jungle", which was of course the B side to Europe After The Rain. Though honourable mention must go to Pet Shop Boys' "Shameless", the B side to "Go West".

Ethnic minority Irish cock rock at its finest B side to probably my favourite ever single ever Whisky in the Jar *


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEEi8KIyCE

* yes the one that was desecrated by that gang of talentless fookwits Metallica

A WOMAN ON A STAIRWAY is the best B side ever.
The rest of you are talking b*ll*cks

Marc Almond also has done some great B sides

BROKEN HEARTED & BEAUTIFUL among them (Ruby Red, 1986)

Passionate Reply or Face to Face B sides by the Midge version of Ultravox for me.

I love them both equally and can't choose.

Brian

I'd also have to add King's Lead Hat, Paths And Angles, I Never Wanted To Begin and Waiting to that list - as they're all cracking tracks!

Rob

Hmmm.. we're not a bit biased on this forum I see!

In which case I'll offer up 3 of the best from:

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark:
The Avenue (Locomotion 12")
The Romance of the Telescope (Joan of Arc)
Navigation (Maid of Orleans)

The Human League
The World Tonight (Life On Your Own)
Tom Baker (Boys and Girls)
Kimi ni Mune Kyun (Tell Me When)

The Beatles
Rain (Paperback Writer)
I Am the Walrus (Hello, Goodbye)
Revolution (Hey Jude)

China Crisis
This Occupation (Wishful Thinking 7"!!!)
Performing Seals (Christian)
Animalistic (Black Man Ray)

Depeche Mode
Now, This Is Fun (See You)
Oberkorn (The Meaning of Love)
Work Hard (Everything Counts)

Gary Numan
Down in the Park (Piano Version) - I Die: You Die
I Sing Rain (She's Got Claws)
Asylum (Cars)

So true.

I Never wanted to begin also had an extended mix.Gothic brilliance.

Brian

And my favourite Abba B side (almost but never quite was) slightly Foxxian title.

I am the city



Brian

Good call Brian! Given that most of their B sides were album tracks I'd go for the ueber-corny: "Pick a Bale of Cotton / On Top of Old Smokey / Midnight Special - Medley" (b/w Summer Night City)
.. great at parties!

I have that single.Its good fun.

Brian

I am the City is a great track!

IIRC - ABBA confessed that they never really liked Summer Night City and never wanted to release it.

Not quite a B side tho' eh?





Interesting that. Was an ace single IMHO.

I also love Summer Night City

Brian

I’m sure there’s millions more – just can’t think of them right now…


The Psychedelic Furs – Aeroplane 12” Mx / (Love My Way)

Saint Etienne – People Get Real / (Join Our Club)

Saint Etienne – Who Do You Think You Are? / (Hobart Paving)

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Red Over White / (Israel)

The Sisters of Mercy – Emma / (Dominion)

Soft Cell – Insecure Me / (Torch)

Dusty Springfield – Spooky / (How Can I Be Sure)

Dusty Springfield – I Start Counting / (Yesterday When I Was Young)

Tubeway Army – We Are So Fragile / (Are 'Friends' Electric?)

Ultravox – Crossfade / (Quiet Men)

Visage – Frequency 7 / (Tar)

Warm Jets – Dakota (Hurricane)

Sparks Beat the Clock.

This was the B-side to Tryouts for the Human Race.

Brian

Umm..don't think so:
http://www.discogs.com/Sparks-Tryouts-For-The-Human-Race/release/205084


Although some releases had "The No. 1 Song in Heaven"
http://www.discogs.com/Sparks-Tryouts-For-The-Human-Race/release/3115023

My brother had it.

http://www.discogs.com/Sparks-Tryouts-For-The-Human-Race-Beat-The-Clock/release/54996

He also had Number One Song in Heaven so my memory could be a bit hazy....

Brian

Far too many to mention, but some artists/bands consistently had great B sides, all of which lend themselves to home-made compilations/playlists. Two in particular for me are:

1. Depeche Mode. For me, all 3 of the "Speak and Spell" B sides should have been on the album instead of perhaps Boys Say Go, Nodisco, and What's Your Name. Then there are Flexible, Work Hard, Now This is Fun, and In Your Memory which are all great songs (as indeed are Dangerous, Happiest Girl, Sea of Sin etc from later in their career). However their instrumentals are the pick: Stjarna, Memphisto, Sibeling, The Great Outdoors!, Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) as mentioned already, Agent Orange etc.

2. Morrissey. From Disappointed to I'd Love To to Jack the Ripper to a whole album's worth of great B sides from the "You Are The Quarry" singles.

Ok Brian - looks sort of like a promo, but interesting nonetheless.


Lest we forget: Kraftwerk's The Model was lifted from TMM album to be made into a 'filler' B side - at least in the UK - to Computer Love in 1981, before becoming a single in its own right and getting to no. 1 in 1982.

That's a good one.

Brian

B side of Duran Duran's Planet Earth, Late Bar, blinding
Cheers

LA-LA-LA-LATE BAAAAR! LA-L-L-L-LA-LA-LA!

CHOON!

I'm glad you listened to ypour Uncle ivan Membs You've just got yourself a wee flashing Yellow triangle whilst your original thread is floundering I'll be making my steve Harley based contribution soon when I can find the link
Btw I shall be travelling from Liverpool to your native Hereford at the end of the month where i'll be picked up by anothe ex Lancastrian Off tpo his in malvern whence to chepstow to see the mighty Levellers at Chepstow on Bank Holiday Monday I'm pschying myself up for the concert by not washing for 3 weeks and buying a dog to which i will attach a piece of string

*lights a spliff and graffitis "Smash the Cistern" on nearest wall*

Ah well give my regards to Edgar Street and if you're travelling by car on the way to Elgar-land, maybe stop off for a quick "liquid luncheon" at The Chase in Bishop's Frome, or The Royal Oak at Leigh Sinton for want of a better hostelry. Natives friendly - English spoken.

*does quick Google search for Levellers* - ah! them! Well I'm sure it'll be a whole lotta fun. I hear they're running random passport checks o'er the Severn Bridge, boyo, so be on yer best behaviour.

Back OT: B side du jour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWoQ2uH8Xk

OK Two for the price of one from me I think I've already mentioned GOME UP AND SEE ME(MAKE ME SMILE) STEVE HARLEY AND COCKNEY REBEL as my favourite ever number one on here Anywaty I bought the vinyl 45 back in the day and it featured this Another Journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZ43AIoqwc
However it was released in 1980 and the B side was just mind-blowing It is as if Joy Division and Queen had met in the pub and had gone back to Freddie or Ian's gaffe after closing time to write a song
It ìs epicly sweeping, gloomy, operatic nelancholic grandiose and life-afferming A real pearl.


SAMBADY CAWED ME SEBAARSTIENN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq481utZ8yE

I'm surpruised he never sued Sylviasn when he ripped most of it off for Night Porter

I always thought Nightporter was a rip of a Bugsy Malone song called Tomorrow Never Comes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc8JnQjSCjQ

Just few (that are not already mentioned, I think) without checking too much my record collection:

John Foxx - Stairway / Enter The Angel
John Foxx - Swimmer 2 / Dancing Like A Gun
Japan - The Experience Of Swimming / Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Soft Cell - It's A Mugs Game (7" and 12" versions) / Where The Heart Is
Visage - I'm Still Searching / Night Train
Duran Duran - Faster Than Light / Girls On Film
Duran Duran - Like An Angel / My Own Way
Duran Duran - Secret Oktober / Union Of The Snake
Adam and The Ants - Christian D'or / Prince Charming
Thomas Dolby - Leipzig / Urges
Fallout Club - Pedestrian Walkway / Dream Soldiers
Fallout Club - Desert Song / Wanderlust
Low Noise - Urban Tribal / Jungleline
Classix Nouveaux - 627 / Never Again
The Associates - Kites / Breakfast
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Hack Attack / Love Missile F1-11
Mick Karn & Midge Ure - Textures / After A Fashion
Midge Ure - Man Who Sold The World / If I Was

A couple more for the playlist:

Pulled To Bits - Siouxsie & The Banshees (Playground Twist, 1979)
Crowds - Bauhaus (Telegram Sam, 1980)
Disappointed - Morrissey (Every Day Is Like Sunday, 1988)
My Lagan Love - Kate Bush (Cloudbusting, 1985)

As lekkyheads, we all want shooting for not picking up on this earlier ,
B side of Chart-topper "Does tha not want me ,Lass" as they say in Sheffield and the sublimest track on the wonderful "Dare" album

OK Sing along with Uncle Phil "ALL DAY HIDING FROM THE SUN "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwpvHJN3QvI

Surprisingly The Dead Kennedys have never done a cover version !