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Originally Posted by big screen satellite
b-sides eh?
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its got to be any track that wasn't released as a 'named' single...
so i think what we should be looking at here is what is the 'best non single released track', i.e. the tracks that don't appear as the named track on the front of the single...
i know its a confusing matter...but when it comes it charting these things, the only track that gets mentioned is the main one, the focus of the release, and anything else is either a b-side, or more like todays CD singles, a bonus / exclusive track, which is used to sell the same material to fans, to get it into the charts...
...and in all this we're totally missing out 'unreleased' / album tracks...like Oh... which never appeared as a b-side, single or anything, but is a soundtrack album only release...
ho hum...hope that clouds the issue
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i think you did a fine job explaining!
Moby tried his hand at explaining what the heck a B-Side is in this day and age for his "Play B-Sides" collection, and i think his definition was, in addition to the extra tracks put on singles, also the tracks deemed unuseable for the LP. Though he was certain to maintain that this didn't mean the left-out tracks were of lower quality (though i'm not sure i agreed with him in that case, but...that's another thread!
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I think it'd be tricky in UW's case to determine which tracks were "outtakes" from the album versus extras floating around that were never in the running for LP release, so your above-definition is just fine!
So maybe we change the name of this poll to "Fave Non LP/Non single track"?!
