9 Great B Sides

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Back in the day...when singles were released on vinyl...you needed to put a song on either side of the record. Sometimes it was another version of the same song, or just the same song again, or maybe a live version...or maybe something completely different. A song that the band didn't know what to do with. Something special...something unique. What I've gathered here are 9 great B-Sides. Some are landmark singles in a bands history, some are ones you might never have heard before... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
0:04.3	history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.
0:09.3	I have a stupid question.
0:10.9	Oh, boy, go ahead.
0:12.1	I keep hearing and reading about B-sides.
0:14.5	Yeah.
0:15.2	So what's it besides?
0:17.7	What's it next to?
0:19.2	What?
0:20.1	If it's beside something, what's the other thing? Are you talking
0:23.7	about music? Yeah, and while we're at it, when they say a song is aside something, it's aside from what?
0:30.3	Is that like a soliloquy? Are you talking about A sides and B sides? Isn't that what I said?
0:36.8	You're a child of the digital age, aren't you?
0:39.1	That's me, binary boy.
0:41.1	You've never had to turn over a record?
0:43.5	What's a record?
0:45.1	I feel so old.
0:47.2	This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.
0:54.6	Back in the day, there were two sides to all the music you bought.
0:58.8	Vinyl records and cassettes had two sides.
1:01.0	Once you finish listening to one side, which usually took about 20 minutes, you had to
1:04.7	get up and physically turn the thing over so you could hear the other side.
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