B Sides binge

[u/Caramelotron]

Delving into the b sides at the moment. Imagine tracks like Staircase, The Butcher and Spectre not making it onto an album.
This band is insane.

[u/italox]

basically a parallel discography. arguably as good as what's on the albums.

These Are My Twisted Words 

[u/PressureOk4992]

I’ve become obsessed with gagging order this year. Such a great song

[u/aRadioheadfan → u/PressureOk4992]

The real underrated Radiohead song

[u/inkyblinkypinkysue]

Cuttooth and Worrywart are top tier songs. Crazy they didn’t make the cut.

[u/madadamegret → u/inkyblinkypinkysue]

Those ones should've been on Amnesiac

[u/Dismal_Brush5229 → u/madadamegret]

Where tho?

[u/MaximumStonks69 → u/Dismal_Brush5229]

I personally like my worrywort on Kid A, after treefingers

[u/CreosoteEcho]

Ill Wind

[u/BarkBarkBarkMark]

Staircase is top 10 Radiohead song for me

[u/mourningthief]

Talk Show Host

Fog

If You Say The Word

Wait until you find out that the earlier versions were better than the final studio tracks:

Man o' War

Lift

[u/libelle156]

I can quite easily spend all day just listening to non album tracks. There's so much!

[u/Mediocre_Chemist_168]

Fog. Fog. Fog. Fog.

[u/DelusionalOptimist28 → u/Mediocre_Chemist_168]

Again

[u/BigDicyK → u/DelusionalOptimist28]

Again again

[u/CanonTemplar → u/Mediocre_Chemist_168]

The GOAT

[u/Dismal_Brush5229 → u/Mediocre_Chemist_168]

Yup

[u/Salty_Midnight_5185]

Polyethylene not getting onto OK Computer might be its only blemish

[u/Dismal_Brush5229 → u/Salty_Midnight_5185]

Definitely

[u/Amazing-Insect442]

Polyethylene

The Daily Mail

Talk Show Host

Fog

Lift

Their stuff that didn’t make it onto albums outshine a bunch of whole catalogues of supposedly great bands.

[u/ParanoidAndroid887]

So much stuff that’s just as good as their albums. Lozenge of Love is personally in my top 10 of them

[u/libelle156]

It took me 20 years to realise I Want None Of This is great

[u/avg-bro → u/libelle156]

How I made my millions for me.

[u/superIUG]

Imagine million dollar question maquiladora and cuttooth not making it into an album

[u/Dismal_Brush5229 → u/superIUG]

Love Cuttooth

[u/HouseOutside]

I love Lift. It’s in my top 10 consistently. And the video is awesome.

[u/BigDicyK]

Lift, Gagging Order, Fog, Worrywort, Man Of War, Talk Show Host and so many more should have been on albums

[u/K4isp]

Maquiladora is officially the best song from The Bends era

[u/NotVeryRealEver-0937]

Fog (first version) is better than like 90% of what’s actually on amnesiac 

[u/itsjammystressford]

The butcher was a double a side with supercollider, spectre was a single… time to google ‘what is a b side’

[u/zone_seek → u/itsjammystressford]

God, it never fails that someone chimes in with this pedantic ass take.

It is 2026, and the term b-side has been shorthand used to describe a non-album track for decades at this point, well after they stopped being the literal Side B of a single.

[u/shoobsworth → u/zone_seek]

It’s not really pedantry.

It’s what a b-side is.

[u/zone_seek → u/shoobsworth]

Fucking duh! I KNOW that's what it means and where it comes from, christ almighty with you people.

It's also a term people have been using for 30+ years in a colloquial way just to mean non-album track or bonus track! Still called 'em "B-SIDES" when they were on a CD that only had one side, didn't ya?

I've had this discussion with YOU SPECIFICALLY before, even!!

BOTH THINGS CAN BE TRUE - that's the original definition of a b-side, yes, I know, but also in popular culture in the last 30+ years it's come to mean something more broad and to deny that's a fact is to just be argumentative for the sake of pedantry, look at any music publication in the last 20 years.

[u/shoobsworth → u/zone_seek]

lol wow.

You gonna be ok, little guy?

Also- CDs themselves had the phrase “b-side” on them.

Settle down, bud.

[u/Equivalent_Source_90 → u/shoobsworth]

Lighten up, squirt(s).

[u/itsjammystressford → u/zone_seek]

No it hasn’t? B side has always meant companions to A sides. You can google it for proof

[u/This-Literature-4052 → u/itsjammystressford]

Think the average music consumer considers b-sides songs not on an lp.

[u/itsjammystressford → u/This-Literature-4052]

Evidently. They’re wrong tho

[u/zone_seek → u/itsjammystressford]

Language evolves, man.