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I Miss the B-Sides

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Do kids nowadays know what a B-Side is?  With today’s music environment, they no longer exist.  Now when a single is released, you just download that single.  There is no longer another song purchased along with the single.  That makes me sad.

I guess the so called Deluxe Edition of albums is like getting all your B-Sides at one time, but where is the fun in that. And are albums really “deluxe editions” if they don’t offer a non-deluxe edition?  I think that would just be called an album.

Some B-Sides went on to be as big as the A-Side of even bigger.  A couple examples would be with Kiss and Queen.  For Kiss, “Beth” was the B-Side on the single for “Detroit Rock City”.  A radio station added the song to their playlist and it went on to be Kiss’ biggest hit and reached #7 on the Billboard charts.  Queen had the same thing happen. The B-Side for “We Are the Champions” was “We Will Rock You”  The 2 songs now are played together and are 2 of the bands biggest and most played songs.

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#TBT – The Coolest Songs of the 80’s – Playlist

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The 80’s was a great time in music for me. It was the time I started really getting obsessed about with it.  There were so many great songs, thanks to the dawn of MTV, during this time. They exposed us to so many more bands that our radio stations were not playing.

There are good songs, great songs, rock songs, dance songs, pop songs and some songs that are just too damn cool.  This list is what I felt were the really cool songs of the decade.  Cool could be the subject matter or the overall sound of the song and of course it is very subjective.  I wasn’t very cool back in the day so my definition of cool might not equal yours.  Come to think of it…I am not cool now.  Oh well, I hope you enjoy the playlist.

Red Rider – “Lunatic Fringe”

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Music is Magic – Playlist

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If you don’t believe magic is real, you haven’t really listened to music.  Music can instantly change your mood.  It can even let you travel through time by taking you back to a special memory.  Music can make you laugh, make you cry and make you feel so many different things.  It can make you dance and soothe your soul.

If that is not magical, then I don’t know what is.  In honor of all that, here are my favorite “magical” songs.  Sadly, there are so many songs to choose from, I ended up with a list that only covered the ’60’s – ’80’s.  I have to do another list for the ’90’s-’10’s.

“Do You Believe In Magic” – The Lovin’ Spoonful

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