It's Always Rubbish On The B-Side

 

The B-sides topic has been pretty successful so far, plenty or readers’ responses and suggestions. One of these was taking an opposite approach and instead of focussing on cool non-album tracks why not select some that were just filler (no killer!), thank you Richard and Jonder!

As one musician eloquently expressed himself: "Our Buddah releases were known for their ridiculous B-sides, like A-side played backwards in order for the business dudes to copyright something with themselves as writers, even though they couldn't write songs."

 
Jonder suggested "B-Side Pisstakes” and thinking of Napoleon XIV’s “They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” B-side (VIX noɘloqɒИ - !ɒɒɒH-ɒH ,γɒwA ɘM ɘʞɒT oT ϱnimoƆ ɘɿ'γɘ⑁T), a novelty record from 1966, yes, taking the piss indeed!

But I decided to give it another twist by having artists taking their B-sides literally…
Tracey Ullman’s “The B-Side” definitely takes it to the extreme, but don’t underestimate Morris Minor and The Majors, their “Another Boring B side” also makes it very clear how they feel about it…
On the other hand Khruangbin & Leon Bridges’ “B-Side” is a pretty cool song!

First price though must probably go to Wall Of Voodoo, they released a special 12” in 1982 named: Two Songs By Wall Of Voodoo.

Side One was their hit “Mexican Radio” and the other side just showed “There's Nothing On This Side”!

Anyway, here comes “It's Always Rubbish On The B-Side”, a highly dubious collection (from nonsense to blues to rap to rock and beyond + 2 tracks from the first compilation) which probably won’t be played often but might make you smirk a bit!

 

Question: What's your favourite novelty record?