Sometimes b-sides are real bangers and even better than the title track. Share here your favorite ones ! So we can discover underrated / unknown / forgotten tracks !
I have many, the list can be long but I start with some of my tops :
I’ll probably revisit this later, but for now here are some bangin’ tunes that come to mind:
Even though they only released this one CD, the B-side of aim’s single “LOST VOICE” is an absolute killer - no wonder the musicians later re-recorded it in their next band GALEYD.
BUCK-TICK is notoriously great at B-sides, so it’s hard to take a pick. Today I’m in the mood for the haunting “Asylum Garden”.
Last but not least, leave it to LUNA SEA to casually drop a B-side that actually became a signature liveshow staple, and also the name of their fanclub.
残-ZAN-“D.P.Y. Mix” is my favorite Gauze-era Dir en grey remix and one of my favorite Dir en grey B-sides in general. That’s saying something coming from me. アクロの丘 (K.N.Y. Mix) is okay, just not my thing. ゆらめき “S.N.Y. Mix” is just absolutely dreadful.
While we’re on Dir en grey, 腐海 (Fukai) off the かすみ (Kasumi) single is a straight banger. Even though the band has been using the version with new lyrics for years, I still prefer this one.
To round out the set, the second re-recording of Ash off the 脈 (Myaku) single is my favorite of them all. Note that the order goes Behind the Mask vol.2 1997 -SOL’FINSTERRE- → 「楓」~if trans・・・~-> 脈 → 人間を被る.
I only listened to them somewhere back in 2009,
but this song caught me directly. Beautiful relaxing song.
These traditionals instruments ! One of Alice Nine best songs. Pretty relaxing too.
This one is not so unknown but I could’nt not to put it here.
Well, I didn’t put rules for mini albums since we can’t really talk about b-sides but I accept it for minis and ep. And this one, god… Res favorite song and among my favorites in vk/jrock ever.
OMG!!! THIS SONG!!! YEEEEEESSSSSS~!!! this was at 1 point my GO-TO song for whenever I was needing a song to vent out any sadness I was feeling at the time!