Talk:A-side and B-side

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Two questions: firstly, shouldn't this page really live at B-side, with the redirect going the other way - it's not like they only ever exist in the plural. Secondly, should it exist at all, or should it be merged with flipside, which seems to mean the same thing (I'm guessing this is a US/UK issue, cos I've only ever heard them called B-sides myself.) I may come back and sort this out sometime, seeing as neither article is very good at the moment, but I thought I'd try and bring it to the attention of anyone looking for something to do. - IMSoP 02:26, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well, I've gone ahead and moved this (from B-sides), because I really don't see why it should have to be plural. I haven't got time to deal with the flipside issue at the minute though. - IMSoP 19:41, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Unclear

Where it says: "These songs are normally songs which did not make it onto the album, either because they were not considered good enough or because they did not fit in with the overall sound of the album tracks, or remixes." Should that last part be "or because they are remixes," or is it saying something else? --LostLeviathan 21:58, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Double A-side...

redirects here. I don't think that's right.

As does A-side, which I also think isn't right, and is why I checked the talk page in the first place. The A-side != the B-side, and a Double A-side is something completely different - it hasn't got a B-side. --Kiand 03:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Well usage wise I think it's appropriate because you really only use the term "A-Side" when contrasting it to the B-Side of an album. -- 03:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 7"

I think it's highly unfortunate that this article claims that only 7" singles feature B-sides, since obviously other formats such as 12" singles do that and they are not even mentioned in the article. I think the language in the article also is a bit biased towards the impression that the 7" vinyl single is a superior format, just because something is not on a 7" single and/or the media does not have sides does not mean those songs cannot qualify as B-sides. --chsf 20:22, 2006/01/24

[edit] Two hits on the same record?

Even more rarely, both sides of the single would become hits. This feat was done repeatedly by some artists. Examples:

I think this needs more explanation, as I don't quite understand how two recordings on the same physical medium can become separate chart hits in their own right.

Put it this way: when I buy the record I automatically get both songs, regardless of which song I really want to listen to, so how can one song get to number 31 in the charts (sales figure: X) whereas the other song gets to number 7 (sales figure: some number other than X)? 220.157.85.81 04:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

well, both tracks can't become chart hits off sales, but both songs could become club/radio play hits (which actually count towards at least dance chart positions in the US, if nowhere else), and become seperately well-known. Although I know of no examples personally where that has happened. Hits doesn't solely mean Top 40/Hot 100/Top 30/whatever your country has. --Kiand 05:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not quite true..

very few vinyl singles are still released
Well, I still see a lot of new singles released on both CD and vinyl. Admittedly more are released on CD than vinyl, but to say that there are very few released at all is somewhat incorrect.

even the CD single has become virtually non-existent
That's even worse. There are hundreds of new singles released every month, to say CD singles are "virtually non-existent" is really incorrect.

What would be better ways of phrasing these? Korinkami 15:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endless Lists

Shouldn't those B-Side collections and A-Side single lists be put in a separate article? --201.66.173.224 22:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong decade?

In the "history" section, isn't wrong the 1990s in this paragraph??

By the early 1990s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, instrumental versions or simply inferior recordings were placed.

I think it should be 1970s because the continuousness of the section. 190.1.211.196 04:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Yellow Balloon"

Do I remember right that "Yellow Balloon" (artist forgotten) was backed with the same song backward? —Tamfang 06:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


you are correct.--Greenday21 (talk) 18:27, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Greenday21

[edit] Other types of non-primary sound recording

The "Other types of non-primary sound recording" seems a bit out of place. Unless it is mentioned at the end of the "B-sides" or the end of "Significane" section that these types of sound recording are occasionally included in album or on compilations, they have their own articles. This section is almost as big as the articles themselves. James Who (talk) 02:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] All about B-Sides

The article is called "A-side and B-side" but the entire article appears to be just about b-side or just a general discussion on singles. Perhaps some of this should be integrated into just a "singles" article, or the two sections should be divided up as some have suggested regarding the redirection funtion of this article. James Who (talk) 02:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)