During the 1960s, music fans would always anticipate the latest
single from The Beatles, who were taking the music industry by storm.
The single’s A-side was almost guaranteed to be a hit, with the B-side
usually landing with mixed results. However, Paul McCartney said The
Beatles always tried to deliver excellent B-sides, even if they
flopped.
The Beatles sometimes had B-sides better that were better than the A-sides
The
Beatles had many excellent A-side singles like “Hey Jude” and “Can’t
Buy Me Love” that dominated the charts in the 1960s and are still widely
listened to today. However, there are a few deep-cut B-sides that many
people, including The Beatles themselves, believe are better than the
A-side they were on. A few examples of these include “I Saw Her Standing
There”, “I Am the Walrus”, and “Rain”.
“Rain” was released as the
B-side to “Paperback Writer”. “Paperback Writer” was a No. 1 single,
but The Beatles thought “Rain” was the better song. In the book The
Beatles: Off the Record, Ringo Starr said “Rain” is one of his favorite
Beatles songs and said it’s the best piece of drumming he did with the
band.
“I think it’s the best out of all the records I’ve ever
made,” Starr said. “‘Rain’ blows me away. It’s out in left field. I know
me and I know my playing… and then there’s ‘Rain’.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney explained why The Beatles placed so much value on their B-sides. The B-side was typically reserved for a single that a group thought was the lesser of the two songs. However, people spent money to get those singles, and McCartney wanted to ensure fans were getting their money’s worth by getting two solid songs.
“I remember talking to Phil Spector in the early days,” McCartney said.
“Phil
used to say to us, ‘You guys, you put too much value on. You put an
A-side, and you put a good song on the B-side!’ There had been a song
called ‘Sally Go Round the Roses,’ an early thing, and on the other side
they’d put ‘Sing Along With Sally Go Round the Roses’ – just the
backing track. And we’d say, ‘Aw, Phil, you can’t do that, man. They
paid good money for this. We would feel cheated by that.’ And he said,
‘Nah, you can do that. It’s cool.’”
“That became actually the
big Beatle policy,” he added. “It was always to put a really serious
B-side on there – so you got ‘Strawberry Fields’ with ‘Penny Lane,’ and
people now talk about that. That was a factor of the Beatles’ success, I
think. It was always a killer B-side, which people often thought was as
good or better than the A-side. That was really from the same thing of
giving value for money, which George Martin used to call ‘VFM.’”
Some of The Beatles’ weirdest but most experimental songs were released as B-side singles hardcore Beatles fans find a lot to appreciate within them.
In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, McCartney said
one of his favorite Beatles songs is “You Know My Name (Look Up the
Number)” because he had so much fun making it.
“[It’s] a zany,
zany little B-side that nobody knows, but we had so much fun making it,”
McCartney shared. “But there’s a lot of songs that I love of the
Beatles.”
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