"Time to play B-Sides" (and bonus tracks!)

What are some of your favorite B-sides and/or Bonus tracks? I really like the bonus discs of the most recent priest and sabbath albums for example, paticularly the songs Snakebite and Naivete in Black.

Helloween has had some great bonus material over the years. The song Madness Of The Crowds may be my favorite.

Hadley wrote:

What are some of your favorite B-sides and/or Bonus tracks? I really like the bonus discs of the most recent priest and sabbath albums for example, paticularly the songs Snakebite and Naivete in Black.

Both of those are great!

Here's some that I like:

The Iron Maiden Castle Records 2 disc reissues that had a massive quantity of b-sides and bonus tracks. Such as:





Overkill has some really cool bonus tracks too:





Testament has several good ones as well:

Def Leppard's Retroactive is one of my favorites.

Witchfinder wrote:

What version is that located on ? It's listed on the cd itself on my copy but is not on the cd at all.

007 wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

What version is that located on ? It's listed on the cd itself on my copy but is not on the cd at all.

It's on the Japanese Import and it's also on the Prosthetic Records reissue from 2008. That's the version I have.

The Snapper Records reissues of the W.A.S.P. catalog have loads of tasty b-sides and bonus cuts, my favorites being their cover of the Stones' "Paint It Black" (on the debut) and "Lake of Fools" and "War Cry" (on The Headless Children).

The Rhino Records remasters of the Ramones catalog are also packed to the gills with demos, b-sides, live versions and other goodies.

I don't know how this was first released in the States but in Europe it was a B Side to Creeping Death 12" single

I know it's not metal, but this track always entertained the hell out of me.

And just for Headbanger Man & Metal Seminarian



  

Boris2008 wrote:

And just for Headbanger Man & Metal Seminarian



  

    

All great examples, especially the Iron Maiden tracks (I really, really want those reissues). As much as the mix suffers on the Priest reissues, I do enjoy a number of those bonus tracks.

Dream Theater never really could write a decent ballad, but this was an exception, and by far the most beautiful thing they've ever done:



Recorded during the Awake sessions, it was released with the Silent Man single in Japan.

Metal Church also has a couple of tracks released in Europe or Japan only that are as good as or better than the rest of the albums. Everyone here knows Big Guns from the debut; the others are Low to Overdrive from Hanging in the Balance and Remain Silent from the latest Generation Nothing (I can't find a clip of the latter but I have it and it really is awesome):



Also worth mentioning are the bonus tracks on the Angel Witch s/t reissue(s) and the Diamond Head white reissue.

I especially like two Savatage songs, "Stay" and "This Is Where You Should Be". Some of my favourites by the band.

007 wrote:

Helloween has had some great bonus material over the years. The song Madness Of The Crowds may be my favorite.

Wow, this is good!

As soon as the song started, I knew it must be something off The Dark Ride. That's a good record. Very dark and heavy for a Helloween album.
I really should buy it in my collection. I used to loan it from library quite often.

Was Women in Uniform a B Side/Bonus track in the U.S?

It was a modest hit single here.

It wasn't a b-side. It was a single a-side.

Maybe "non-album tracks" would be a better title for the topic? That way I could include Bruce Dickinson's Broken and Silver Wings, two songs that were only on the Best Of compilation.

Runicen wrote:

I know it's not metal, but this track always entertained the hell out of me.

I was an almost obsessed Numan fan back in the day. I had to get every record I could find, and he had excellent B-side, but I always despised that song. My favorite B-Side of his is from the same era, though. "The Image Is" is also really good, also from I, Assassin.

Running Wild

"Win Or Be Drowned"

"Hanged, Drawn And Quartered"

Both bonus tracks from Pile Of Skulls

Accept has had me confused these past couple albums. Both Blood of the Nations and Stalingrad had "bonus tracks..." that were never made unavailable anywhere. Why call them bonus tracks when they're not part of an exclusive edition?

A couple of years ago a good friend of mine (RIP, he passed away last year    ) made me a compilation of the Iron Maiden B Sides. Some great stuff on it, some seems like filler (like Roll Over Vic Vella, which is a funny tune but once you hear it, you've heard it ya know). I've Got The Fire is probably the best B Side they have. I also enjoy their version of The Ripper with Blayze on vocals.

Iron Savior does some great bonus tracks as does Sabaton.

one of my favorite bonus tracks was Jorn's version of the Bryan Adams song Run To You on the unlocking the past Japanese version...

Reckless Love..Get Electric (Bonus Track)




Reckless Love Bonus track on the uk version is better the most of the songs on the Animal Attraction Album it was released on...

Iron Maiden "Running Free" single 1980 B-side "Burning Ambition"(UK)