The Verve has great B-sides.

Here goes a couple: So Sister (Bittersweet Symphony), Let The Damage Begin

Suede have some phenomenal B-sides;



Europe is Our Playground, My Dark Star, The Living Dead. They are the only band who I actually much prefer the b-sides to singles

Ocean colour scene . Bsides, Seasides and free rides is well worth checking out!

Huckleberry grove
I wanna stay alive with you
Robin Hood
Alibis
Hello Monday

To name a few!!!

I never realised that some of the best work is hidden in B-sides, or, more generally speaking, non-album tracks, until I got into Kasabian and then Oasis.

This year, when I reacquainted myself with my beloved Pogues, I came across the brilliant "Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say: Pogue Mahone!" which is an absolute treasure trove of B-sides, demos, soundtrack tracks, etc.

The Jam
The Smiths

Young Noel Gallagher was a huge fan of The Jam and he wanted to make great B-sides, as great as A-sides if he will be in a band someday.

This - easily another album's worth of tunes there. The Delaney and All At Sea are among their very best.

Apart from that I've been digging Morrissey's b-sides lately - that man was ridiculously creative in the late 80s/early 90s. To have this as a b-side:




Come to think of it, I hate how many bands have stopped doing b-sides or even some additional deluxe tracks on the album...always loved having some more stuff to dig into.

The La's.

Songs like Who Knows, Man I'm Only Human, Knock Me Down are some of their best material.

I feel like discovering bsides is something that new music fans today will never get to experience and enjoy the same way. Lucky us.

That's the feeling I had when I listenend to this video:

Good call on Embrace. I don't know how to best describe them, but I see them as the halfway point between Oasis and Coldplay.

Dry Kids is arguably their finest collection of material gathered on a single album. And underneaththesky, the whole Drawn From Memory material is brilliant. I love that album, very underrated and no two songs sound alike.

Like Dry Kids, the album criss crosses various styles and is eclectic. Really nice ballads, some great rockers and weirdly psychedelic in places (kazoos in one song!). The Love It Takes encapsulates everything great about that album - starts off typically Embrace-like as a slow mournful acoustic ballad, but before we realise it, the song builds and builds into a crescendo of noise and fury and just when I think it has peaked, it keeps on peaking!! The album in general has fantastic guitar work from Richard McNamara, and while Danny has never been the strongest singer, his apparent weakness in that department makes it feel all the more vulnerable and more sincere. But one thing Danny McNamara tops his contemporaries such as Noel, Chris Martin and Fran Healy (who are all similar in some aspects I feel) is his lyrics. Stuff like 'The awful weight I feel around me is your loving arm around me'. Ouch, so vitriolic - and somewhat darkly comedic - it could have been a Morrissey lyric! I really really love this album - it has a song for each and every emotion I feel. Far superior to the overproduced and somewhat hollow debut, and while it isn't as instantly catchy as the highlights on the first album which I listen to more as a quick fix more than anything, this second album slowly crawls under your skin and stays with you forever.

Apologies for derailing this thread so I will put it back on course by stating that the album sounds like a b-side album, but in a very good way in that it is often experimental, incredibly eclectic and unusual - and that is often the marker of what I look for in great b-sides and great bands.

oh shit, man... alcool and nostalgia were talking there.. haha
yah

Stone Roses
Arctic Monkeys, amazing lyrics as always.