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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2008, 04:40:11 AM »
I think it happened with:

Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You
From Me To You / Thank You Girl
Paperback Writer / Rain
Come Together / Something

Do you think of any others?
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2008, 06:57:47 AM »
Interesting topic. I can't agree on the FMTY/TYG one. A lot of fans do prefer Rain to PW, but I'm not too sure about Rain's hit potention. Personally, I do prefer Baby You're A Rich Man (instead of All You Need Is Love) and of course Old Brown Shoe, but that is because I can't really stand The Ballad Of John And Yoko.
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« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2008, 09:53:11 AM »
Interesting. Looking at the UK discography, their b-sides are of such a consistently high quality that it's difficult to decide which is the best side. The one obvious one for me is 'Hello Goodbye/I Am the Walrus'. To hide 'I Am The Walrus' away on a b-side and an EP is nothing short of sacrilegious!
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« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2008, 10:08:51 AM »
To make things complete: the UK singles list

Love Me Do / PS I Love You
Please Please Me / Ask Me Why
From Me To You / Thank You Girl
She Loves You / I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy
Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That
A Hard Day's Night / Things We Said Today
I Feel Fine / She's A Woman
Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is
Help! / I'm Down
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
Paperback Writer / Rain
Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine
Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man
Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus
Lady Madonna / The Inner Light
Hey Jude / Revolution
Get Back / Don't Let Me Down
The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe
Come Together / Something
Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2008, 01:11:47 PM »
Going by the list above I prefer the below b-sides to the a-sides.  Please note I said I prefer;  not necessarily that I think these have more hit potential.

This Boy (love the harmonies.)
You Can't Do That
Day Tripper (Love the riff.)
Rain
SFF and Penny Lane pretty much tie as do Hey Jude and Revolution.
Old Brown Shoe (I love this underrated Harrison gem.)
Something
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2008, 01:22:09 PM »
Both We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper and SFF / Penny Lane came as a double a-side.
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2008, 08:47:14 PM »
Leaving aside the double A-sided singles, I particularly like "Revolution," "I Am The Walrus," "Don't Let Me Down,""Rain," and "Things We Said Today." I think that singles outsold albums until the late sixties, so maybe putting a good (and perhaps not particularly commercial) song on the flip was considered a way of featuring it. By the seventies, it was very much an album-oriented market, with singles (and usually only the A-sides) serving as radio trailers for new LPs, but the perception of the relative value of a B-side may have been a lot different in say, 1966.  :)
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« Reply #27 on: September 06, 2008, 02:07:19 AM »
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Leaving aside the double A-sided singles, I particularly like "Revolution," "I Am The Walrus," "Don't Let Me Down,""Rain," and "Things We Said Today." I think that singles outsold albums until the late sixties, so maybe putting a good (and perhaps not particularly commercial) song on the flip was considered a way of featuring it. By the seventies, it was very much an album-oriented market, with singles (and usually only the A-sides) serving as radio trailers for new LPs, but the perception of the relative value of a B-side may have been a lot different in say, 1966. :)


.... though John and Paul did fight a lot over who got the A vs B side, IIRC reading ...
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #28 on: September 06, 2008, 02:25:29 AM »
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.... though John and Paul did fight a lot over who got the A vs B side, IIRC reading ...

For sure: the A-side was the thing to have. My point was simply that the sixties were a singles-oriented period until some time in the second half of the decade, and that having even a B-side then might have been considered more worthwhile than it later became. I think I remember reading somewhere that the decision to call "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" a double A-sided single was made to keep John happy: he was quite strenuously for his song, but Paul (and maybe others?) thought that "We Can Work It Out" had more commercial potential. Better check that, though.  :)
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #29 on: September 06, 2008, 06:26:40 AM »
Love Me Do / PS I Love You
Please Please Me / Ask Me Why
From Me To You / Thank You Girl
She Loves You / I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy
Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That
A Hard Day's Night / Things We Said Today
I Feel Fine / She's A Woman
Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is
Help! / I'm Down
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
Paperback Writer / Rain
Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine
Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man
Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus
Lady Madonna / The Inner Light
Hey Jude / Revolution
Get Back / Don't Let Me Down
The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe
Come Together / Something
Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2008, 09:19:46 PM »
its amazing how their b-sides were so memorable as well! i mean, why would you choose
This Boy as a b-side now?
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« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2008, 12:40:14 AM »
^I agree! I mean, you can't have I Am The Walrus as a B-side!
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2008, 05:32:48 PM »
something is way better than come together. it's one of their best songs and come together is one of their worst imo. i can't stand come together.

paperback writer is not a bad song but rain is just incredible. the lyrics the music and the way john sings.

i am the walrus > hello goodbye. i love hello goodbye but i adore i am the walrus.

well and some of the others but i'm not gonna list all of them. i just wanted to say how i feel about these three.
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #33 on: September 14, 2008, 07:31:10 AM »
I'd have to agree and take I Am The Walrus over Hello Goodbye. Blackmath, I can understand your feelings about Come Together because it's a song I never really liked until fairly recently (it's grown on me with repeated listening), but it's a song IMHO that's years ahead of its time. Nobody else was making music like that in 1969.

However, I think Something is one of the most beautiful songs ever written so this particular one is hard for me to call.
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2008, 01:37:59 AM »
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To make things complete: the UK singles list

Love Me Do / PS I Love You
Please Please Me / Ask Me Why
From Me To You / Thank You Girl
She Loves You / I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy
Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That
A Hard Day's Night / Things We Said Today
I Feel Fine / She's A Woman
Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is
Help! / I'm Down
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
Paperback Writer / Rain
Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine
Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man
Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus
Lady Madonna / The Inner Light
Hey Jude / Revolution
Get Back / Don't Let Me Down
The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe
Come Together / Something
Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)

To this day, I'll never understand why Back in the USSR wasn't a single off the White Album with something like Happiness is a Warm Gun or maybe I'm So Tired as the B-side. I know Paul wanted Ob La Di Ob La Da as a single but was vetoed....so it's not as if the idea of a single wasn't floating around. USSR would have been perfect.

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« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2008, 07:57:01 AM »
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To this day, I'll never understand why Back in the USSR wasn't a single off the White Album with something like Happiness is a Warm Gun or maybe I'm So Tired as the B-side. I know Paul wanted Ob La Di Ob La Da as a single but was vetoed....so it's not as if the idea of a single wasn't floating around. USSR would have been perfect.


In fact, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da was released as a single in several countries (like France and Holland), with While My Guitar Gently Weeps as the b-side.
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« Reply #36 on: October 30, 2008, 11:54:51 AM »
the song Ob-la-di-Ob-la-da became famous in the UK after a band called marmalade released a cover that topped the chart in january 69 (criminally knocking off the greatest instrumental ever-the early fleetwood Mac's beautiful  "ALBATROSS"
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« Reply #37 on: October 30, 2008, 06:47:27 PM »
I'm Down was IMO better than HELP!
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #38 on: November 05, 2008, 08:43:41 PM »
I think 'better than' is a bit strong... They should have had more double-A's, the following songs should have had equal billing IMHO:
You Can't Do That
Things We Said Today
She's A Woman
I'm Down
Rain
I Am The Walrus
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down
... and (if I'm feeling generous) Baby You're A Rich Man
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Re: B-Sides better than their A-Sides?
« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2008, 06:35:50 AM »
Wow....Beatles 45s.  When I bought them, I considered both sides to be "A-sides."  Somehow I never thought the A and B side designations applied to Beatles records.
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