The “B side” is a refreshing topic. It’s an excellent suggestion by your viewer, Brian Finlay, fleshed out in an entertaining and enlightening manner by you. I especially like how so many of your selections are not obvious choices. Like you, I still have “Five O’Clock World,” but mine is the original version of the song which was released by The Vogues. It’s one of those songs to which I could never resist singing along. I love when I discover that the B side of a 45 is better than the A side, such as the example you gave with “I Think I’m Going Mad” and “She Was Hot.” The Stones, in particular, is a band that has made a lot of cool choices when it comes to B sides. I’m so glad you gave special kudos to Keith Richards’ solo release of “The Harder They Come.” I don’t think anyone else could do a grittier rendition of the song - and I love it! All in all, the very impressive sampling of your singles collection on vinyl has been fun to see. It tempts me to go down to my basement and dig out my 7-inch circles of vinyl that open the floodgates to a waterfall of childhood memories.
Thanks - yes - go check them out. I forgot the original was done by The Vogues. And you still have that 45 - how great. 45's are a great time capsule for us. They can bring us right back to that time in our life. It was fun for me to go through them looking for cool b-sides. I think you'd enjoy it. It brought a smile back to me.
Great idea for a topic Alan. I remember tracking down a copy of Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery 45 to hear Summerday Sands and was completely blown away by it. Still one of my favourites today.
My all time favourite WHO song. Bald Headed Woman on the flip of I Can't Explain. when I was seeing them regularly {smile}. From memory they swopped record company's around this period and one of the WHO's single's came out twice with different B side's on different label's... {Just an old man's memory.} Was very in to the WHO as a British MOD. Saw them about 5 time's in small Dance Venue's, couple hundred people, max.
Amazing you saw them back then in those dance band days. Bald Headed Woman is a great example of how a song takes up special resonance based on personal experience. Wonderful. Brings you back to your youth.
Nice - I don't have that one, but Elvis C had amazing 45's with so many great B-sides - live stuff etc. I could probably do a show on those. I got to get Spike, for some reason I never picked that album up, even though was a big hit for him.
Earth to Alan Rosenberg......I don't know nothing about Doris but I thought I say a stain on that record sleeve.....it was probably just leakage from your diaper 🤣😂 We may end our days listening to music in diapers😂🤣 I have a picture of me as a little kid with my record player on my entertainment center. I do like the Keith cover of The Harder They Come....one of my all time favorite Soundtracks. I got to see the Elvis Costello Blue Tour when he was doing all the country stuff. I see your friends Wishbone Ash have a new live dates CD coming out. Well I am STILL waiting for you to answer my very important questions that I asked on your the one album I need show.....I don't think you read that one🤣 We all want to know your one must have album by your favorite band, Queen. Secondly, when are we gonna see last Sunday's haul??? It's almost time for this weekend's haul😂🤣 PS.....Mazie loves you.
Mazie don’t know me I’m sure. Last thing I need is another version of live dates. Lol. My all time favorite Queen album. It’s one I don’t have. It was never released. It was a new direction for them. Apparently it was going to be 45 minutes of silence. What else. Last Sunday nothing major. I bought a bunch of CDs that I already have the albums on vinyl. So I can dump the vinyl versions. I didn’t buy anymore bootlegs. Didn’t think worth showing. I’ll see how this weekend goes. Got some great rock magazines but I never show that. Figure no interest.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I think Yoko once thought about releasing an album of 45 minutes of silence, instead she released Fly. You know you WILL eventually get that forthcoming Wishbone Ash CD. It's just a matter of time but remember time waits for no one 😝
That's a cool one - I have the CD single. I have tons of CD singles, every Stones one, but I was sticking to vinyl for this video. But yea that's a cool little song. The Stones seem to like these little blues type songs as B-sides.
The only Rolling Stones 7" I have on b-side is "Thru the Lonely Nights" and "I Think I'm Going Mad". Most of them are CD singles. I have several of the Springsteen 7" singles from the Born in the USA album. I was able to find the 7" w/Held up Without a Gun". I did find, I think, a rarity misprint of the b-side "Be True". The initial copies of the single had the song listed as "To Be True". I was able to find the single with the miss-printed title at a record flea market by accident. I think I paid only $1. Unfortunately, it didn't have the original sleeve. From the Nebraska album, there was a b-side single titled "The Big Payback". It was released in Spain! I did find a copy of Keith Richards "Run Rudolph Run" backed with "The Harder They Come" long time ago. I first heard the song on the radio and took a while to find the single.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow The Rolling Stones covered the Beatles "I Wanna be Your Man" and put out on as a single in 1963. The b-side was an instrumental titled "Stoned". This single also had a misprint. The initial copies listed the title as "Stones" before Decca corrected the title name. It was only released in the UK since it has the Decca label. Read about the misprint in a book listing all the songs recorded between 1963 to 1989. Shows you American record companies weren't the only ones making mistakes in song titles. It does amazing it wasn't caught just before the record pressing.
I missed it - I have that single but as Stoned. That's a great B-side. Damn, mines not a first pressing or anything but that's a cool track. Thanks for covering my tracks - awesome pick... @@noahbody9747
My friend has that Dora Hall. He has 250,000+ singles. Dora born 1900 died 1988. Married to Leo hulseman who ran Solo Cup Company Illinois. His company's affiliates released her singles. It cost her husband 400,000 dollars in them days to get her recordings. According to my friend. USA sources might know more. I have 25,000+ singles all rock and metal.
Thanks so much for your information. I really appreciate it. Funny I’ve kept that 45 my whole life. You and your friends collections are astounding. Thanks again.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow one of my friends owns a second hand record shop. There is 2 within 500 yards where I live. My collection is half my dad's him 1960s mine after that. He died so I got the lot. He met Hendrix the who the Beatles etc. Club gigs then not arenas. Big friend of John mcvie. My friend's the same father to son. Had tea with McCartney I'll tell you about it one day. My dad railway man. Me carer. Stars are ok there not the distant ass holes there made out to be.
Nice to see those b sides, of the few singles I have the 2 best flip sides are Walk On The Wild Side/Perfect Day and My Sweet Lord/Isn't It A Pity which is 7 mins long.
I LOVE Stones ballads but you're right. Certainly couldn't fit another on GHS and Hide Your Love works great because it's just kind of bluesy jam that's raw and works so well on the album. IORR already had Till The Next Goodbye and If You Really Want To Be My Friend and I love both of them as well. So I guess Through The Lonely Nights had to settle for a forgotten B-Side. Yes also could have worked on side 2 of Tattoo You. Great Stones track though. @@FuturePast2019
The Who s' "I Dont Even Know Myself", The Who s' "Heaven & Hell", The Rolling Stones "Loosing My Touch" (Keith on vocals). Asia s' "Ride Easy", Led Zeppelin s "Hey Hey What Can i Do"" and of course Fleetwood Mac s "Silver Springs" and another one that stlli remains unreleased on CD from Tango in the Night album. U2 hace many.
Well, I bought a lot of 45's back around 1963 / 66 {Couldn't afford LP's.} The Who, mentioned, Stone's, Beatle's, Pretty Thing's {My Favourite's back then {only saw once.} Kink's, Yardbird's, you name it and I might of bought it. All gone, none I remember {other than Bald Headed Woman / The WHO} .... To be honest, I don't think I thought much of many of the 'B' side's back then. Maybe Sugar Pie DeSantos ! The 'B' side's were considered "Throw away's" ! Just mentioning this.... The 'HIT'S' were WHY we bought the single's, so we could PLAY THEM TO DEATH and dance in our bedroom's. LOL. LIVE, most Band's only had one or maybe two of their own song's and everything else they played were 'cover's. Even the Beatle's & Stone's, when they started, only had a couple of their HIT's to play..... Back then we were lucky enought to be able to see them in small venue's. Once they started getting big, they Played Cinema's as those were the biggest place's available. Then they "INVADED" America and got to play larger venue's..... It was all a lot different back then. I just feel EXTREAMLY LUCKY in being so old, I lived through the start of Rock & Pop and saaw more Band's than I can Remember. Pink Floyd being one of the last "Big Name Band's" I saw at a 'local dance'. I never got to like, having to "sit down half a mile away from the stage to see inch high figure's on a stage" LOL
I always liked The Pretty Things too. I only saw them once as well. They were the opening act for the Kinks on their Schoolboys In Disgrace Tour. It was a great double header for me. Those were the days.......
@@davidkunzli680 I saw them in the rambling {shamble's} known as the Windsor Ricky Tic. Basicly a large rambling House where they played in a room ! I think it was ajacent to the Thame's . More a Mansion than house I guess.
Great double bill - and that was when The Pretty Things were trying to make a big commercial comeback on Swan Song with the help of Led Zeppelin. Around the time of Silk Torpedo and Savage Eye. Good stuff.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I am a big fan of those Swan Song Pretty Things releases. And of course, the Kinks schoolboy stage outfits were wonderful. It's one of my all time favorite shows. Saw it in a small theater on the campus of Tulane University.
@@davidkunzli680 alright you have to come up with the official plastic yellow thing 45 single record spindle adapter. Mine is too long and not catchy. Lol
Yea - great track - funny that Blackmore refused to ever play it and then finally saw the light of day on the Machine Head reissues. Great choice. I don't have the 45 though.
I'm British and in 1962 / 3 My best friend's family would buy the Number One single every week ! {I never understood the reasoning for such a {what I thought was} stupid thing to do ! Me, I might of been able to afford 1 {one} single a month. The UK was not Prosperous after the war, like in the USA. I earned £5.00 pw and an LP cost £1.50. I gave my parent's 1 pound, had to pay Bus Fare's to work 6 day's a week {Yes, back then it was a 6 day week.} You could buy 3 single's for a pound £1.00 back then. Probably the most popular LP's were sold in Woolies {Also known as Woolworth's, in the US, LOL} of Cover's of the Hit's. I can't remember how much they were, but a cheap way to get all the latest Chart Hit's. REMEMBER most live Band's would also do quite a lot of Chart Hit Cover's in their act.
wow. I also remember in the states they would sell compilation albums of the biggest hits at the time. More often then not were covers and not the original artists. But they would downplay that and when you played the albums, you were in for a rude surprise. K-tel would release albums with songs by the original artists but they would fit like 10 songs per side and the fidelity was terrible due to the limits of vinyl....really tight grooves and placement of songs vinyl couldn't handle some of the bass etc.
Well hopefullyy we're not awful. I have kids, a house and life is very expensive so buying used inexpensive Cd's and some vinyl is the best thing for me, budget wise. Plus it's also the most fun hunting for them out in the wild. @@HTJB60
Led Zep, Hey Hey What Can I Do, b-side of Immigrant Song. CCR had a lot of great b-sides, many which became hits. I like Beatles b-side Don't Let Me Down better than Get Back.
@@jasonpp1973 yea fantastic choices. The Zep one is one of the greatest. For what it’s worth, I never cared for Get Back. An immediate turn off when I hear it. Thanks.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I like what Prince did with his Hits 1 and 2 comps, and added a whole cd of b-sides in a fatboy 3 cd set. U2 had special edition 2 cd sets with their first two GH comps, each 2nd cd was a selection of b-sides.
@@jasonpp1973 Yes - fantastic - I have both of those 2cd U2 collections and they're great (U2 have always done amazing CD singles with tons of unreleased material). That Prince set is also really cool.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Funny, with the recent vinyl resurgence, 45's didn't really make a comeback like 33's did. Like Blue Oyster Cult says, "time to play b-sides, lol.
@@jasonpp1973 That's an excellent point. Especially with the excessive cost of new vinyl album releases - you'd think 45's would be a solid alternative in certain situations. Really a wonderful point. Thanks. Love my B-sides that's for sure.
Tull/Tori amos/suede b-sides better than their lps. Heads hands and feet b side to one woman single, dirty heavy weather road is the best song the Band never recorded
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Bernard Butler was a reluctant guitar hero. Columbia records tapped him and Chris Whitley as the next Stevie ray Vaughn. Both were more innovative and exciting players especially live. Srv to me was a mix of johnny winter and Albert king. And let's not forget sand rubies guitarist rich Hopkins who sounded like Neil young on steroids. Those post srv guitar God's still resonate with me and get regular rotation
Interesting description of SRV - never thought of that. I am a big fan of SRV. I think he was an amazing guitarist and so clean. Fast, yet tasty and oh so clean.@@SpenceCurry
The “B side” is a refreshing topic. It’s an excellent suggestion by your viewer, Brian Finlay, fleshed out in an entertaining and enlightening manner by you. I especially like how so many of your selections are not obvious choices. Like you, I still have “Five O’Clock World,” but mine is the original version of the song which was released by The Vogues. It’s one of those songs to which I could never resist singing along. I love when I discover that the B side of a 45 is better than the A side, such as the example you gave with “I Think I’m Going Mad” and “She Was Hot.” The Stones, in particular, is a band that has made a lot of cool choices when it comes to B sides. I’m so glad you gave special kudos to Keith Richards’ solo release of “The Harder They Come.” I don’t think anyone else could do a grittier rendition of the song - and I love it! All in all, the very impressive sampling of your singles collection on vinyl has been fun to see. It tempts me to go down to my basement and dig out my 7-inch circles of vinyl that open the floodgates to a waterfall of childhood memories.
Thanks - yes - go check them out. I forgot the original was done by The Vogues. And you still have that 45 - how great. 45's are a great time capsule for us. They can bring us right back to that time in our life. It was fun for me to go through them looking for cool b-sides. I think you'd enjoy it. It brought a smile back to me.
Great idea for a topic Alan. I remember tracking down a copy of Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery 45 to hear Summerday Sands and was completely blown away by it. Still one of my favourites today.
Yes - fantastic choice - GREAT song and great b-side. Thanks.
My all time favourite WHO song. Bald Headed Woman on the flip of I Can't Explain. when I was seeing them regularly {smile}. From memory they swopped record company's around this period and one of the WHO's single's came out twice with different B side's on different label's... {Just an old man's memory.} Was very in to the WHO as a British MOD. Saw them about 5 time's in small Dance Venue's, couple hundred people, max.
Amazing you saw them back then in those dance band days. Bald Headed Woman is a great example of how a song takes up special resonance based on personal experience. Wonderful. Brings you back to your youth.
Thanks, good video. Wham Bam Thank You Mam by the small faces is one of my favourite B sides.
Thanks for the idea. Cool song for sure. Don’t have the 45 though.
Oh I love this, I had a «b-sides» thing on the backburner.
Actually held that Mick Jagger 45 in my hands yesterday!
Fun fun 😊
You have to do one then. Thanks
Another great idea, Alan. Some great insights and I think there is so much good stuff on the b sides. Your collection is incredible. David Butterworth
Thank you so much David - really appreciate it.
the first one pops in my head is Elvis Costello’s cover of You’re No Good from the Veronica 45
Nice - I don't have that one, but Elvis C had amazing 45's with so many great B-sides - live stuff etc. I could probably do a show on those. I got to get Spike, for some reason I never picked that album up, even though was a big hit for him.
Earth to Alan Rosenberg......I don't know nothing about Doris but I thought I say a stain on that record sleeve.....it was probably just leakage from your diaper 🤣😂 We may end our days listening to music in diapers😂🤣 I have a picture of me as a little kid with my record player on my entertainment center. I do like the Keith cover of The Harder They Come....one of my all time favorite Soundtracks. I got to see the Elvis Costello Blue Tour when he was doing all the country stuff. I see your friends Wishbone Ash have a new live dates CD coming out. Well I am STILL waiting for you to answer my very important questions that I asked on your the one album I need show.....I don't think you read that one🤣 We all want to know your one must have album by your favorite band, Queen. Secondly, when are we gonna see last Sunday's haul??? It's almost time for this weekend's haul😂🤣 PS.....Mazie loves you.
Mazie don’t know me I’m sure. Last thing I need is another version of live dates. Lol. My all time favorite Queen album. It’s one I don’t have. It was never released. It was a new direction for them. Apparently it was going to be 45 minutes of silence. What else. Last Sunday nothing major. I bought a bunch of CDs that I already have the albums on vinyl. So I can dump the vinyl versions. I didn’t buy anymore bootlegs. Didn’t think worth showing. I’ll see how this weekend goes. Got some great rock magazines but I never show that. Figure no interest.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I think Yoko once thought about releasing an album of 45 minutes of silence, instead she released Fly. You know you WILL eventually get that forthcoming Wishbone Ash CD. It's just a matter of time but remember time waits for no one 😝
@@davidkunzli680 I still haven’t bought the 200 dollar Argus box. One day but no rush
One of my fave Stones b-sides is Wish I’d Never Met You. A-side was Terrifying. Also, the b-side of You Got Me Rocking is Jump on Top of Me.
That's a cool one - I have the CD single. I have tons of CD singles, every Stones one, but I was sticking to vinyl for this video. But yea that's a cool little song. The Stones seem to like these little blues type songs as B-sides.
The only Rolling Stones 7" I have on b-side is "Thru the Lonely Nights" and "I Think I'm Going Mad". Most of them are CD singles.
I have several of the Springsteen 7" singles from the Born in the USA album. I was able to find the 7" w/Held up Without a Gun". I did find, I think, a rarity misprint of the b-side "Be True". The initial copies of the single had the song listed as "To Be True". I was able to find the single with the miss-printed title at a record flea market by accident. I think I paid only $1. Unfortunately, it didn't have the original sleeve.
From the Nebraska album, there was a b-side single titled "The Big Payback". It was released in Spain!
I did find a copy of Keith Richards "Run Rudolph Run" backed with "The Harder They Come" long time ago. I first heard the song on the radio and took a while to find the single.
Great finds. I have to look for that misprint. Fun to find those. I didn’t know about that one. Thanks
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow The Rolling Stones covered the Beatles "I Wanna be Your Man" and put out on as a single in 1963. The b-side was an instrumental titled "Stoned". This single also had a misprint. The initial copies listed the title as "Stones" before Decca corrected the title name. It was only released in the UK since it has the Decca label. Read about the misprint in a book listing all the songs recorded between 1963 to 1989. Shows you American record companies weren't the only ones making mistakes in song titles. It does amazing it wasn't caught just before the record pressing.
I missed it - I have that single but as Stoned. That's a great B-side. Damn, mines not a first pressing or anything but that's a cool track. Thanks for covering my tracks - awesome pick... @@noahbody9747
Very cool Alan. It's ok you don't have the Go Your Own Way single. 🤣
Yea but your choice of Silver springs is an ideal choice. Zeppelin Hey Hey What Can I Do is another that I don’t have.
My friend has that Dora Hall. He has 250,000+ singles. Dora born 1900 died 1988. Married to Leo hulseman who ran Solo Cup Company Illinois. His company's affiliates released her singles. It cost her husband 400,000 dollars in them days to get her recordings. According to my friend. USA sources might know more. I have 25,000+ singles all rock and metal.
Thanks so much for your information. I really appreciate it. Funny I’ve kept that 45 my whole life. You and your friends collections are astounding. Thanks again.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow one of my friends owns a second hand record shop. There is 2 within 500 yards where I live. My collection is half my dad's him 1960s mine after that. He died so I got the lot. He met Hendrix the who the Beatles etc. Club gigs then not arenas. Big friend of John mcvie. My friend's the same father to son. Had tea with McCartney I'll tell you about it one day. My dad railway man. Me carer. Stars are ok there not the distant ass holes there made out to be.
@@markhughes5444 wow. That is incredible. Would love to hear about it one day. Thanks.
Nice to see those b sides, of the few singles I have the 2 best flip sides are Walk On The Wild Side/Perfect Day and My Sweet Lord/Isn't It A Pity which is 7 mins long.
Two great singles for sure.
Don't have many 45s Alan.Most of mine from the 60s were trashed at parties lol
At least they were put to good use. That’s what they’re really for.
“Through the Lonely Nights” is so good, it should have been on the album.
Yea. Love it too.
Too manye ballads. Angie, Winter, Keith's song.
But yeah. Slow songs on side 2, like on Tattoo You... Take out Hide your Love and add Lonely Nights.
I LOVE Stones ballads but you're right. Certainly couldn't fit another on GHS and Hide Your Love works great because it's just kind of bluesy jam that's raw and works so well on the album. IORR already had Till The Next Goodbye and If You Really Want To Be My Friend and I love both of them as well. So I guess Through The Lonely Nights had to settle for a forgotten B-Side. Yes also could have worked on side 2 of Tattoo You. Great Stones track though. @@FuturePast2019
The Who s' "I Dont Even Know Myself", The Who s' "Heaven & Hell", The Rolling Stones "Loosing My Touch" (Keith on vocals). Asia s' "Ride Easy", Led Zeppelin s "Hey Hey What Can i Do"" and of course Fleetwood Mac s "Silver Springs" and another one that stlli remains unreleased on CD from Tango in the Night album. U2 hace many.
Yep. All great choices. I showed many u2 and I Don’t Even know Myself. Losing MyTouch is on 40 Licks
Well, I bought a lot of 45's back around 1963 / 66 {Couldn't afford LP's.} The Who, mentioned, Stone's, Beatle's, Pretty Thing's {My Favourite's back then {only saw once.} Kink's, Yardbird's, you name it and I might of bought it. All gone, none I remember {other than Bald Headed Woman / The WHO} .... To be honest, I don't think I thought much of many of the 'B' side's back then. Maybe Sugar Pie DeSantos ! The 'B' side's were considered "Throw away's" ! Just mentioning this.... The 'HIT'S' were WHY we bought the single's, so we could PLAY THEM TO DEATH and dance in our bedroom's. LOL. LIVE, most Band's only had one or maybe two of their own song's and everything else they played were 'cover's. Even the Beatle's & Stone's, when they started, only had a couple of their HIT's to play..... Back then we were lucky enought to be able to see them in small venue's. Once they started getting big, they Played Cinema's as those were the biggest place's available. Then they "INVADED" America and got to play larger venue's..... It was all a lot different back then. I just feel EXTREAMLY LUCKY in being so old, I lived through the start of Rock & Pop and saaw more Band's than I can Remember. Pink Floyd being one of the last "Big Name Band's" I saw at a 'local dance'. I never got to like, having to "sit down half a mile away from the stage to see inch high figure's on a stage" LOL
I always liked The Pretty Things too. I only saw them once as well. They were the opening act for the Kinks on their Schoolboys In Disgrace Tour. It was a great double header for me. Those were the days.......
@@davidkunzli680 I saw them in the rambling {shamble's} known as the Windsor Ricky Tic. Basicly a large rambling House where they played in a room ! I think it was ajacent to the Thame's . More a Mansion than house I guess.
Great double bill - and that was when The Pretty Things were trying to make a big commercial comeback on Swan Song with the help of Led Zeppelin. Around the time of Silk Torpedo and Savage Eye. Good stuff.
You really were lucky. Pink Floyd in a small hall as a dance band. Now that's funny. Can't imagine dancing to Saucerful of Secrets...lol
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I am a big fan of those Swan Song Pretty Things releases. And of course, the Kinks schoolboy stage outfits were wonderful. It's one of my all time favorite shows. Saw it in a small theater on the campus of Tulane University.
And by the way.....Mazie says that yellow thing is your adapter. Mazie loves us......
Lol. You know I video live. That was funny. This yellow thing lol. Is there an official name for 45 spindle adapter. ?
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I was just thinking about that. I don't know. I always just called it the 45 adapter. It should have an official name 😜
@@davidkunzli680 alright you have to come up with the official plastic yellow thing 45 single record spindle adapter. Mine is too long and not catchy. Lol
Best B-side? 1972. When a Blind man Cries. Played 730 times live since Blackmore left in 1993.
Yea - great track - funny that Blackmore refused to ever play it and then finally saw the light of day on the Machine Head reissues. Great choice. I don't have the 45 though.
I'm British and in 1962 / 3 My best friend's family would buy the Number One single every week ! {I never understood the reasoning for such a {what I thought was} stupid thing to do ! Me, I might of been able to afford 1 {one} single a month. The UK was not Prosperous after the war, like in the USA. I earned £5.00 pw and an LP cost £1.50. I gave my parent's 1 pound, had to pay Bus Fare's to work 6 day's a week {Yes, back then it was a 6 day week.} You could buy 3 single's for a pound £1.00 back then. Probably the most popular LP's were sold in Woolies {Also known as Woolworth's, in the US, LOL} of Cover's of the Hit's. I can't remember how much they were, but a cheap way to get all the latest Chart Hit's. REMEMBER most live Band's would also do quite a lot of Chart Hit Cover's in their act.
wow. I also remember in the states they would sell compilation albums of the biggest hits at the time. More often then not were covers and not the original artists. But they would downplay that and when you played the albums, you were in for a rude surprise. K-tel would release albums with songs by the original artists but they would fit like 10 songs per side and the fidelity was terrible due to the limits of vinyl....really tight grooves and placement of songs vinyl couldn't handle some of the bass etc.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow That sound's like us. Cheap and awful.
Well hopefullyy we're not awful. I have kids, a house and life is very expensive so buying used inexpensive Cd's and some vinyl is the best thing for me, budget wise. Plus it's also the most fun hunting for them out in the wild. @@HTJB60
Led Zep, Hey Hey What Can I Do, b-side of Immigrant Song.
CCR had a lot of great b-sides, many which became hits.
I like Beatles b-side Don't Let Me Down better than Get Back.
@@jasonpp1973 yea fantastic choices. The Zep one is one of the greatest. For what it’s worth, I never cared for Get Back. An immediate turn off when I hear it. Thanks.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I like what Prince did with his Hits 1 and 2 comps, and added a whole cd of b-sides in a fatboy 3 cd set.
U2 had special edition 2 cd sets with their first two GH comps, each 2nd cd was a selection of b-sides.
@@jasonpp1973 Yes - fantastic - I have both of those 2cd U2 collections and they're great (U2 have always done amazing CD singles with tons of unreleased material). That Prince set is also really cool.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Funny, with the recent vinyl resurgence, 45's didn't really make a comeback like 33's did.
Like Blue Oyster Cult says, "time to play b-sides, lol.
@@jasonpp1973 That's an excellent point. Especially with the excessive cost of new vinyl album releases - you'd think 45's would be a solid alternative in certain situations. Really a wonderful point. Thanks. Love my B-sides that's for sure.
Alan .. do have Keith's the harder they come on CD?
Yes I have it on two bootleg compilations - The Killer B's (from Alt.Stones) and Clean Cuts Vol. 2 (on Efte Productions). Both great compilations.
Tull/Tori amos/suede b-sides better than their lps. Heads hands and feet b side to one woman single, dirty heavy weather road is the best song the Band never recorded
True. I only showed the ones i physically own the 45s. I have that two cd Suede set of Bsides. Fantastic stuff.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Bernard Butler was a reluctant guitar hero. Columbia records tapped him and Chris Whitley as the next Stevie ray Vaughn. Both were more innovative and exciting players especially live. Srv to me was a mix of johnny winter and Albert king. And let's not forget sand rubies guitarist rich Hopkins who sounded like Neil young on steroids. Those post srv guitar God's still resonate with me and get regular rotation
Interesting description of SRV - never thought of that. I am a big fan of SRV. I think he was an amazing guitarist and so clean. Fast, yet tasty and oh so clean.@@SpenceCurry