B-side

• “Urban Dictionary even goes so far as to call a B-side “not good enough to be on the album” and just plain “left-over,” a “sub-par” track.”

  Simon & Schuster: Save as draft

• “and to a new category, B-side, which is for unwieldy or alarming amusements that don't fit well on the homepage or in the main RSS feed.”

  Boing Boing

• “Bell recorded this song in 1961, and it appeared as a B-side on the 16th single ever to be released by Stax.”

  The Guardian: How music can reach out and touch us

• “One is a single, All Our Yesterdays, and the other is the B-side instrumental, Alpha Centauri.”

  All Our Yesterdays : Bev Vincent

• “I'd once read a Pete interview where he said that whenever The Who were suffering through an awful show, they'd play "Daddy Rolling Stone" the import-only B-side of their second single, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"... a great, but, to even most Who fans, unknown R&B song.”

  The Huffington Post: Binky Philips: The Who Arrive Late, Beatles News Arrives Early, Central Park, August 1968

• “Released anyway that fall as the B-side of a 45-rpm record, the song soared to No. 21 on Billboard magazine 's Hot 100 chart — launching the hit-making careers of Ms. Warwick and songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Copycats

• “Like the B-side of an A-side that you know cos it was used on a mobile phone advert.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

• “On the Tumblr feed for Hynes's latest project, Blood Orange, there's a brilliantly incongruous picture of Florence Welch Hynes was originally part of Florence's band and co-wrote an early B-side draped over Beyoncé backstage at a Jay-Z show.”

  The Guardian: From Lightspeed Champion to Blood Orange, the many lives of Dev Hynes

• “Ms. Gaynor's "I Will Survive" originally was released as the B-side of a 1978 single.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Auld Lang Syne—With a Backbeat

• “(Sad that a B-side from another album is better than the A-sides from the new album.)”

  New U2

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