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Superb run through, and much kudos for featuring Budgie, Montrose and especially Lone Star. Suspect that you were also glued to Tommy Vance’s Friday Night Rock Show, which is where this selection immediately transported me back to, although it’s Space Station No. 5 that will forever be etched in my mind as that show’s theme song. And if you ever get that radio show, you’re guaranteed at least one listener! Cheers, Chris!

The Stranglers made a great effort on B sides

Weiss Heim as 'B' side of All Night Long is a classic.

Love a good b side. Suede, Manics and Oasis did some great ones in the 90s.

I have just subscribed to your channel and this is an excellent guideline to punk and early wave music! Certainly subscribe also to my channel. I have interesting albums to be discovered by you, like bands as T.C.MATIC or SIGLO XX "The Belgian Joy Diviision" . Greetz Jason in Belgium

I really enjoyed this video. Great stuff, great memories, great music. Anyone who loves The Rezillos, Can't Stand the Rezillos, is a friend of mine!

Hello Chris, I just discovered your nice channel! I saw the words New Wave, Punk, and came looking here! :-) I subscribed. Subscribe also to my channel. I do vinyl videos but also other stuff. Thank you! Yean that Stranglers debut is amazing! On my wishlist is that first Ultravox album!! And also that Heartbreakers album! Yeah The Sex Pistols and The Ramones and The Stooges and Magazine are pure diamonds!! Greetings from Belgium! Jason

T Rex were amazing for their B sides , Get It On B side was Raw Ramp/There Was A Time absolutely brilliant. Telegram Sam has Cadillac and Baby Strange . Metal Guru has the brilliant Thunderwing and Lady. 🌟

I got 'em all with a few exceptions (I've always thought the Only Ones were overrated). I know Vancouver is a very long way from London, but the first D.O.A. album "Something Better Change" would make the cut, if you ever heard it.

I mean, if you only ever buy one thing by a band, having its two best hits on one single is fantastic, for fans it's a cop-out. I think you should've excluded b-sides which had been a-sides.

Rain is b side to Paperback Writer. I love you you big dummy by Magazine (b side to Give me everything) Metal Guru had both Lady , and Thunderwing on the b side.

Mate, you can get Pink Flag from HMV for about £20

Great video Chris, very well thought out & structured. Agree with your comments about Paul Dianno, definitely my favourite incarnation of the band.

Even though the list is great, I’ve missed some material from The Fall

Look forward to this … cheers

Hi Chris, I love 45s. “Penny Lane” is one of my first childhood memories along with Topol singing “if I were a rich man”. I was born in 1964 and I think both came out in early 1967. I remember my mum singing along to them on the radio ☺️ looking forward to your next video 👍

Hi Chris, bit late, watching my team Middlesbrough tonight. Great video, some of them I didn't realise were b sides which really surprised me because I've got a couple of them. Sweet were a much better flip side for me, and one I played just the other day was The Crunch by The Rah Band which has part 1 and part 2 on the flip side. Great video once again cheers.

Awesome, this brought back a lot of memories. Back in about 1981 there was a ska band here in Vancouver called the B-Sides. My favourite b-side is Zeppelin's Hey, Hey, What Can I Do. It's definitely one of my top 5 songs by them. The a-side is Immigrant Song. It wasn't on any of their proper albums. Cheers, great video

Hi Chris, I've got a lot of those, great stuff. Kept thinking he's gonna mention The Jam in a minute but no, fell into loads of categories, Smithers Jones totally different to the album version, loads of brilliant songs that you found nowhere else like Butterfly Collector. Was really disappointed when artists cheapened out by putting instrumentals then remixes on the b side. REM were the last band i remember doing it properly 👍 Cheers, enjoyed this Chris 🍻

Butterfly Collector on the B side of Strange Town.... Magazine did some great experimental and live stiff on the B sides, 20 Years Ago being a case in point. Joy Division only put out one album single (She's Lost Control) and all the other singles had great B sides

Hi Chris another wonderful video with another fantastic topic loved this one you ask at the end to name a few favorites so here goes THE SPECiALS GHOST TOWN two fantastic b-sides Friday night/Saturday morning and why both excellent tracks almost as good as the a side THE JAM A TOWN CALLED MALICE the b side precious was in my humble opinion better than the a side how about THE UNDERTONES MARS BARS a great underrated song never much listened to the b side of jimmy jimmy those are a couple of my favourites off the top of my head thanks again for another joyous video have a wonderful rest of your week STEVE

Great show again. I knew you would not miss all the Sweet singles. Many are compiled on the studio disc from the 1975 2-LP "Strung Up". The other disc is live. I may have said before but I took my then girlfriend to see them at Bolton Navada (sic) a large roller skating rink, infamous throughout Lancashire, in mid-1971 just after Funny Funny was a hit and Coco was riding high. Expecting much more of the same, I was pleasantly blown away by a heavy sound more akin to Hendrix and Cream from a wall of brand new bright Orange amps. In the same vein wrt different genre B-sides. check out the singles from Dave Dee, Dozy, Mick and Tich. The flips are all superb psych freakbeat cuts. Legend of Xanadu and Last Night in Soho are themselves great records, but listen to the b-side of Zabadak, "The Sun Goes Down" and others from the late 60's.

Unfortunately Chris, I got rid of most of my early 70's singles a while ago, the one I wish I had kept was bought in a 2nd hand store in Clydebank near Glasgow, it was Genesis 'I know what I like' on the charisma label, the b side was twilight alehouse, I think it was quite a rare 45.

Another great look at your 45s Two b/sides that spring to mind for me are reflections through the looking glass the b-side to Simon says from 1910 fruit company you wouldn’t think it was the same band and the b side from the monkees I’m a believer which is I’m not your stepping stone

If the "I Think We're Alone Now" is the song I'm thinking of, it was written and recorded by Tommy James (no relation) and the Shondells.

David Watts wasn't the double A side of Tube Station

The B side of Mud’s TigerFeet, Mr Bagatelle is a memorabele one. Very unexpected. Great stuff. Cheers and thanks foor all your content.

Hi Chris, another great selection to showcase your video. The Motors you beat the hell out of me is excellent. Very sad news about the passing of Paul Di'Anno.

Hi Chris. You really made a good case in favour of collecting singles. So many gems hidden on the B-sides. Lots of my favourites there. Coincidently I was listening yo Lulu's version of "the man who sold the world" earlier today. It has "watch that man" on the B-side. One of my favourite B-sides is Otway and Barretts "Beware of the Flowers" Cheers Mike

The specials 7inch with 5 tracks over a side/b side too much too young, gun's of navarone, b side long shot, liquidator and skinhead moonstomp.

Juliet by the 4 pennies was the first b side to get to number 1. Yardbirds did some well known b sides. My favourite b sides are M Williams Classical gas, Idle Race their knocking nails into my house, Wheels Roadblock, Disturbance The Move, . Just off the cuff without thinking.

The b side of Killing Jokes Wardance is Pssyche, amazing raw post punk rock

The vast majority of singles with great/good b sides seemed to me mostly from the 70s, there seemed to be a bit more thought from the artists off what to put on the reverse side,I loved buying 7inch singles in 70s/80s and turning it over to b side to see what it sounded like.

Class tracks Chris I am going to go through my singles boxes! I have a lot of these! I miss B sides!! 👍

I have a very eclectic taste in music from Punk to classical & also play in a brass band, but to this day Ruts/The Crack, Inflammable Material/SLF, All Mod Cons/The Jam and If You Want Blood(Live)/ACDC continue to my most ever listened to albums and still listened to regularly

I'm still making my way through your earlier videos Chris. Love the punk/new wave/pub rock stuff. I saw London supporting The Stranglers at Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1977. The singer said something the crowd didn't like - it was the first time I saw beer bottles thrown at the stage!

Hi Chris really enjoying your channel, great selections and i spent the day listening to the bands that I had long forgotten about !!! keep it up sir !

Lovely list as usual. Would you consider The Cutter leading off Porcupine or One Hundred Years opening Pornography as appropriate here?

Well done Chris fantastic video.

Hi 👋 i was 17 in 1977 , and i felt very excited about what was coming out of Britain with the Punk scene. Im 64 now and sometimes listen to albums from the past. The only thing is its all nostalgic. Long gone is the excitement that i mentioned. I have a regret that i didnt enjoy myself fully back in 1977. Im in old age now , and there is no going back. Anyway good records . I like Magazine very much.

Great selection Chris and a nice surprise at number one. I would have had Message in a Bottle and Pulling Mussells somewhere in the list.

Lots of brilliant stuff. Thanks for pointing out that my Wire LP's have become quite rare. I didn't know that. Heard you say you have Richard Hell's Blank Generation on LP. Should have made your album list imho. Do you know his 45 is a different version?

Excellent…. 2 of my fav opening tracks are Running with the boss sound from Generation x 2nd album “ Vally of the dolls” and Kill the poor , Dead Kennedy from Fresh fruit for rotted vegetables.

Always nice to see Graham Parker get a mention. He is so overlooked. Discovering Japan is a brilliant song and the whole album Squeezing out Sparks is amazing. Great from start to finish👍

Hi Chris, superb selection, and your comments spot on. Stiff Little fingers knew how to start an album, with Gotta Gettaway first off on Nobody's Heroes.

some great choices there, bit later but I thought of FFF by PIL on Album or Dumb Waiters by The Psychedelic Furs on Talk Talk Talk

Great list!!!! I’d add: - Your Phone’s Off The Hook (X) - Change Of Ideas (Bad Religion) - Private Eye (Alkaline Trio) - No Revolution (The Explosion) - That Song (The Bouncing Souls) - Walk Away (Dropkick Murphys)

Makes me lament losing most of my album collection. A great pre punk opener would be Dr Feelgood's album Down by the Jetty with She Does it Right

Nice list Chris. Other notable album openers: I Feel Like - the Stranglers Tank - the Stranglers Dazzle- the Banshees Watching the Grass Grow - Punkadelic (Nik Turner's punk band) Bata Motel - Crass (cmon Chris - where's are the Crass tracks in your list!). Cheers

Great video as normal Chris. One chord wonders would be at the top in my list as it sets the tone for the rest of the album so well. I wonder what we'll play for you tonight. Something heavy or something light. Something to set your soul alight. Those first three lines says it all.