History Main / BSide

** They {{exaggerated|Trope}} this with the release of the 2006 double-album ''Music/StadiumArcadium'', with a whopping 28 songs. While it earned them [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy Awards]] for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song (for lead single "Dani California"), many critics bashed its, well, bloatedness and filler. The band actually had plans to release a third album, but had to cut over ten songs at the insistence of management.

*** "Soul To Squeeze" was the B-Side to both "Give It Away" and "Under The Bridge" in 1991. In 1993 it appeared on the ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' soundtrack and was released as a single. Many people thought it was a new song, which was why the song was a hit, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top 10 in Canada and Australia.

* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Incesticide}}'' has many of their B-sides from the ''Music/BleachAlbum'' and ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' eras. Many fans consider it to be the album most representative of the band's style.

* A near example came while Music/GeorgeHarrison was working on doing a B-side for a single off his new solo album. Visiting with his friend Music/BobDylan, who had a mini recording studio in his place, he ended up doing a little song along with a few other friends, Music/RoyOrbison, [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra Jeff Lynne]] and Music/TomPetty, taking the name from a tag on one of Dylan's travel cases. When he sent it to the record company, they saw immediately that this was NOT B-side material song and asked for more. The result was that ''Handle With Care'' became the lead song from Music/TheTravelingWilburys' [[Music/TravelingWilburysVolume1 first album]].
* Music/PinkFloyd's "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene" was originally released as the B-side to the unpopular single "Point Me at the Sky", the latter of which even the band expresses dislike for. Nonetheless, CWTAE went on to become a live staple from 1968 to 1973, becoming increasingly longer and more elaborate, even seeing release on the live side of their fourth album,'''Music/{{Ummagumma}}''.

** "God Save the Queen", taken from the sessions that produced ''Never Mind the Bollocks'', was backed with "Did You No Wrong," another song from the sessions that didn't end up on the album. The song originated as "Scarface" from when Steve, Paul and Glen were performing with Wally Nightingale as the Swankers. Since the group was essentially a pub-rock group before Music/JohnLydon became the singer, it's instrumentally a pretty straightforward rock 'n' roll song with Lydon's punk vocal and rewritten lyrics laid on top.

* Music/RodStewart's "Maggie May," with the first A-side being "Reason to Believe." While "Reason to Believe" gained airplay during the summer of 1971, it wasn't long before "Maggie May" – the song about a young adult's infatuation and mixed emotions over his infatuation with an older woman – became the clear favorite of both the radio-listening audience and disc jockeys. Despite its length of 5:15 ("Reason to Believe" itself clocks in at just over four minutes), the song was fitted on a standard 7-inch single in its full edit (excepting for an early fade) ... and soon became a classic that is played heavily to this day.

* Music/PinkFloyd's ''CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene" was originally released as the B-side to the unpopular single "Point Me at the Sky", the latter of which even the band expresses dislike for. Nonetheless, CWTAE went on to become a live staple from 1968 to 1973, becoming increasingly longer and more elaborate, even seeing release on the live side of their fourth album, ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}''.

* A near example came while Music/GeorgeHarrison was working on doing a B-side for a single off his new solo album. Visiting with his friend Music/BobDylan, who had a mini recording studio in his place, he ended up doing a little song along with a few other friends, Music/RoyOrbison, [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra Jeff Lynne]] and Music/TomPetty, taking the name from a tag on one of Dylan's travel cases. When he sent it to the record company, they saw immediately that this was NOT B-side material song and asked for more. The result was that ''Handle With Care'' became the lead song from Music/TheTravelingWilburys' first album.
* Music/PinkFloyd's ''CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene" was originally released as the B-side to the unpopular single "Point Me At The Sky", the latter of which even the band expresses dislike for. Nonetheless, CWTAE went on to become a live staple from 1968 to 1973, becoming increasingly longer and more elaborate, even seeing release on the live side of their fourth album, Ummagumma.

* The first single for The Doobie Brothers' ''What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits'' was "Another Park, Another Sunday", with the album track "Black Water" as a B-side. "Another Park..." peaked at #32 on the billboard charts, which its writer Tom Johnston attributes to radio stations pulling the song from airplay due to taking the lyric "the radio just seems to bring me down" personally. Meanwhile, the B-side slowly started picking up enough regional airplay that the label decided to issue it as a single on its own, which became their first #1 Billboard hit.

* Music/{{Gorillaz}} have two whole B-side compilation albums dedicated to a specific studio album of theirs: ''G-Sides'' for [[Music/GorillazAlbum their self-titled first studio album]], and ''D-Sides'' for their second sudio album ''Music/DemonDays''. They contain both unused songs and remixes by other artists.

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s ''My Iron Lung EP'' contains outtakes from the early stages of ''Music/TheBends'' sessions. The only exception is Creep (Acoustic) which was a B side in the Pablo Honey era.

* The second disc of Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Music/GarageInc'', as mentioned above.

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s B-sides are popular among fans for their strangeness and experimentation; "Kinetic" features a looped, backwards, slowed-down vocal part.

** Their Japan-only release, ''The Special Collectors' Edition'', which collects B Sides up to the ''Music/{{Parklife}}'' singles. In terms of box sets, they have the more substantial 10th Anniversary Collection and the even more substantial Blur 21 set (of which all the albums were released as 2CD sets including most of the B-Sides).

* Music/TheCaretaker has ''Everywhere, an Empty Bliss'', a B-sides compilation of the project's GrandFinale album series ''Everywhere at the End of Time''.

* Music/{{Gorillaz}} have two whole B-side compilation albums: ''G-Sides'' for their self-titled first studio album, and ''D-Sides'' for their second sudio album ''Music/DemonDays''. They contain both unused songs and remixes by other artists.

* Music/TheBrokenSocialScene's ''Bee Hives'', which was entirely {{B Side}}s from ''You Forgot It In People''.
* The second disc of Metallica's ''Garage, Inc.'', as mentioned above.

* In the United States, "Your Song" by Music/Elton John was originally released as the B-side to "Take Me To The Pilot", but disc jockeys preferred "Your Song" and the songs were later swapped over.

* Music/JimmyEatWorld's ''[[Main/InNameOnly Singles]]'' has a collection of songs that didn't made to ''Static Prevails'' and ''Clarity'' and it was released shortly prior of them hitting big in the mainstream.

* Music/{{Gorillaz}} have two whole B-side albums: ''G Sides'' for their self-titled first album, and ''D Sides'' for their second album ''Music/DemonDays''. They contain both unused songs and remixes by other artists.

* Music/JimmyEatWorld's ''[[Main/InNameOnly Singles]]'' has a collection of songs that didn't made to ''Static Prevails'' and ''Clarity'' and it was released shortly prior they hit big in the mainstream.

** "The Jamestown Ferry" by Music/TanyaTucker, from 1972. The original A-side, "Love's the Answer" was not the answer to what would be the follow-up to the 14-year-old Tucker's first hit, "Delta Dawn."
*** In introducing the song, [=ACC=] host Don Bowman explained that by the late 1960s, record companies were servicing radio stations with vinyl 45 RPM records having the same song on both sides of the records, that is, a specific song the record company and/or artist wanted radio stations to play. (Plus, it allowed jockeys to play the other side of the record once one side became worn or "skipped.") [[note]]By this method, if the song flopped, it was no big deal; the song would fall into recurrent status and a new single would be released.[[/note]] However, "Love's the Answer"/"The Jamestown Ferry" was an exception, since -- according to Bowman -- there seemed to be uncertainty at Columbia Records which song would be the stronger hit, so the label sent out copies of what also went to the stores.

** This got crossed with GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Australia in 1969. "Edge of Reality" (from ''Film/LiveALittleLoveALittle'') was B-side of "[[Music/ElvisNBCTVSpecial If I Can Dream]]", and while the "If I Can Dream" was dominant in most of the world, in Australia "Edge of Reality" was equally, if not more, popular, with the combined sides peaking together #2 on the ARIA chart.

* Music/{{Wings}} had the double A side "Mull of Kintyre"/"Girls School". "Mull of Kintyre" was massively popular in the UK, while "Girls School" was ignored; in the USA, "Girls School" was a hit and nobody remembers "Mull of Kintyre".

* Music/GreenDay's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" was originally the B-Side to Brain Stew/Jaded (itself a Double A-Side), but rerecorded for the following album ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'', and subsequently became one of their best known (if not ''the'' best known, period) songs. The song "Maria" on ''International Superhits'' was originally released in a different version as the B-Side to the 7" version of "Waiting", which meant it was widely regarded as a new song.

* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews had their only UK top 10 hit with a double A side pairing two previous singles: "Do You Believe in Love?" and "The Power of Love". The latter was probably the side that most sold the record (thanks in large part to the home video release of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'') even though it had been a top 20 hit only the previous year.