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Little Labours of Love - The 100 Greatest B-Sides Like the English electric lightning that's features above on Suede's excellent B-side compilation Sci-Fi Lullabies , the B-side is a humble relic from a bygone era.  L eaving both a mountain of aural rubbish and a small but largely untold legacy of great music when artists dared to experiment, dared to take risks, dared to push themselves. B-sides were tracks that accompanied singles - or A-sides - and were their literal flipside, on vinyl or cassette that could be turned or flipped over. In the fifties and early sixties two songs could be recorded and radio would choose their preferred song to play and these became the single. So for example Bill Wither's Ain't No Sunshine was originally a B-side to the single Harlem before Radio DJs saw the obvious error and played the B-side instead. Examples such as these were purely down to chance however.  The idea that a B-side could be worthy of being taken seriously was perhaps