One Sided Singles

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In the old days, a 7′ or 12′ single record would have an A-Side and a B-Side.
And, in the 90s, a CD single had four tracks on them.

But now a single comes out with just one song on it. It emphasises how lazy and how greedy the music industry has become. And most of the big names are guilty.

In recent years the Rolling Stones, the Stone Roses, U2, and Liam Gallagher have put singles out, with a weak or substandard song on the A-Side and nothing on the other side. And the cunts charge well over a tenner for it.

They try to fob off record buyers by making out the record is unique and ‘limited’.
‘But… But it has an ‘etched’ B-Side.’ Who gives a toss about that? Where is the song on the B-Side? It’s a blatant rip off and a complete piss take. Over ten quid for a mediocre one sided one song record is ridiculous. Also, what artist worth their salt can’t muster up an extra song for the other side of a single? They simply can’t
be arsed or don’t give a fuck.

The Beatles have their faults and that overhyped ‘last’ record was tiresome. But at least the old cunts put a B-side onto it. But others don’t care about fans or ripping them off. The Liam Gallagher/John Squire one is but one example of this type of modern music industry robbery…

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Nominated by Norman.

72 thoughts on “One Sided Singles”

  1. I have a turntable and amp, but they are only used for vinyl that I collected up until the late 80’s.

    People who are passionate about vinyl will tell you that the sound quality is better than any other format but I can’t tell the difference myself.

    When CD’s first appeared I brought several dozen, but mainly to play in the car.
    When it became easy to download music and burn a disc I would do that.

    Anyone remember Napster?

    Now anything that I like I will download, often from YouTube using a converter site.
    This music is then put on one of several playlists and can be played on the move or on my Internet player.

    So never having to pay for music takes the edge off not having a B side on a single.

    I know that it’s cheating the artist out of royalties, but I couldn’t give a fuck really.

    • Afternoon TAC, another fine way for free music is, if you have an amp with bluetooth, get an unlocked Spotify apk on your phone to access the premium service.

      • Thanks Thomas, and good afternoon to you.

        I will give that a go.
        I like fucking around with technology, especially when I can get free stuff.

  2. What kind of asswipe buys singles nowadays?
    Regardless of how many sides they’ve got.
    Whoever they are they deserve to be ripped off.

  3. I have a turntable to transfer from vinyl to computer. Old vynil. These singles are aimed at cunts that have been ‘seen coming’.

  4. You don’t get a ‘B’ movie in the cinema either. Just an hour and a half of adverts. Which is why I never go to the cinema.

  5. It’s a rip off certainly, except Liam Gallagher, even better Liam how about nothing on both sides.

    Madonna should be putting her stuff out on 78’s acetate would save the vinyl for her cosmetic surgery.

    Artists? Fucking con artists.

  6. How can they justify the price! I remember how shocked I was back in the day when the price of singles jumped from 45p to 99p😱

  7. In the fifties, remember going to the local park to play football with friends. Outside a shop was a bubblegum machine. For a large old penny you got a chewing gum and a surprise gift, a tiny record, one side was Be and the other Bop.

  8. I don’t remember ever having bought a single. It would’ve meant i’d been listening to the charts.

    • Nooooooo……

      Listening to the charts was for I was very young.
      The top 20 played on a Sunday evening by that annoying cunt Alan Freeman.

      Good evening Pop Pickers….. Wanker.

      We would be on stand by with our Sony Cassette player and try to record the songs that we liked before Alan Fucking Freeman started talking over the end of the tune.

      There was a stall on Ridley Road market where we would go to listen and buy vinyl that would never reach the charts.
      Several other specialist record shops too.

      I still have most of the records.
      Even then the B side would be ‘radio edits’ or ‘a capella’ versions of the main song.

      I know where the OP is coming from.

    • I’d catch the chart rundown on Sundays sometimes, just didn’t pay much attention.

      Never been a fan of pop music at any age,

  9. Remember singles 4/6, 22.5 pence to you young cunts. Put a stack on the old Dansette and guess what? One of the fuckers was warped and the others slipped on it.
    Any one who buys vinyl is deranged, wanna buy a limited Abbey Road picture disc in mint condition?

    • I remember singles being six shillings and eight pence, three for a quid. I’ve still got my collection. B sides were usually crap but sometimes they were bloody good and I grew to prefer them to the A side. One example is The Byrds’ Eight Miles High, the B side is Why and it’s a great song.

      • Why is a great tune Allan.

        Other good B Sides are Rain (Beatles), Child of the Moon (Stones), I’m Only Dreaming (Small Faces), and Circles (The Who).

  10. I bought a single in 1984 I think..First and last.

    These days I’m fully in favour of “borrowing” music,TV,films etc off the Internet,works a treat (so I’ve been told)..

    Sadly I remember the days of walking into HMV and the robbing cunts wanting £15 for an album and the same for a film on VHS..

    Fuck that and fuck the music “industry”.

  11. I’d rather eat Harvey prices shitty nappy than buy anything by twats like Liam Gallagher.

    I last bought a single 30 yrs ago.
    The first I bought was ‘ message to you rudey’ by the Specials.

    Too.late to ask for a refund now.

    • I’ve guessed the extra one, was the inside. For that, let’s make it a fourth. The outside.

  14. A good band can be judged by their great B-Sides.

    The Jam were one. Liza Radley, Shopping, The Butterfly Collector, Tales From The Riverbank.

    The Stone Roses also did some fine B-Sides like Standing Here, Mersey Paradise and Going Down. But there last two singles in 2016 (which were both shit) had no B-Sides.

  15. I remember when a single was six shillings and thruppence, my spence was one shilling a week.

    So after buying penny arrow bars and jubbly’s I could never afford one.

    First record I bought was the album “What’s going on” Marvin Gaye. When I was earning as an apprentice..

    Still got it….🎼

  16. Sorry Admin but Barry John has died. Cue the BBC to broadcast Gary Linekunt to give his memories of playing against him and Tony Blair saying that he watched him play at St Jame’s Park .
    Truth is very flexible these days,

    • The first vinyl that I can remember buying was an EP with a handful of songs from the Sargent Pepper album.

      I had to save up for it.

      I would earn 6d (2,5p) every morning by helping the milkman on his route between my house and my school.
      Starting at about 6am to get to school on time.
      2 shilling for helping all day on Saturdays and Sundays.

      I still remember how fucking cold those milk bottles were in the winter.

    • Totally agree. The 70’s were a sun-drenched fucking free for all. The shite you could get up to and nobody gave two damns.

      Be home in time for dinner or risk the belt.

      White dog shit!

    • It started out as a 12′ B-Side to ‘William It Was Really Nothing’.
      But, it was so popular with fans, Rough Trade put it out as an A-Side.

  24. 12′ singles were great years ago.

    Blue Monday, Two Tribes, White Lines, I.O.U, N-N-N-N-N 19 and many others.

    Still have a load of them.

  25. OT but could please everyone take a minute to think of poor LFC fans as they trawl through King Kenny’s big book of excuses looking to shift the blame away from their team for the whooping they just received in North London.

    Top three excuses currently.

    1. Aye lad, that fooking ref is a United fan.
    2. Arsenal fixed the grass.
    3. I never liked that German cunt anyway.

    Back to the one sided single and Sam Smiths latest offering with the wipe clean PVC sleeve.

  28. Tom Verlaine and Television decided that less is more and released Marquee Moon as both the a and b sides.

    One in stereo and one in mono.

  29. Al Jolson didn’t fuck around with single sided releases, his mammy raised him better than that.

  30. Seeing that no one can be bothered to fill up a disc on both sides, then all these tight fisted cunts should bring out new recordings on the old wax cylinders, to make it easier for them to shove up their arses.

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