Where does the term B Side come from? (1 Viewer)

[StirFriedPanda]

You old folks keep your mouth shut. I want to know if the youngsters know where the term B side comes from. And don't google it either!

 

[Day]

bland side bc they're usually worse than the title track ?

Spoiler

this is a joke

 

[seoriverse]

other side of the cd or smth

 

[StirFriedPanda]

other side of the cd or smth

Wrong

 

[Myth]

It’s like alphabetical order right? A > B, with A being the title aka priority and B being the second option.

 

[StirFriedPanda]

It’s like alphabetical order right? A > B, with A being the title aka priority and B being the second option.

Wrong

 

[seoriverse]

Wrong

i literally searched on google before this thread

 

[StirFriedPanda]

i literally searched on google before this thread

Yet you still got it wrong... Imagine that, google doesn't know everything?!

 

[Myth]

It’s like alphabetical order right? A > B, with A being the title aka priority and B being the second option.

I could be wrong. Though I could have sworn I read people calling titles “a-sides” in some of the many beatles biography books I used to read… (don’t ask. I was mega obsessed and literally watched and read so many things about them…).

 

[Horizonshard]

other side of the cd or smth

Not entirely wrong. It does relate to that. But CDs stole it from Records. Records had it first.

Records had two songs on them, the A-side, and the B-side.

 

[seoriverse]

Not entirely wrong. It does relate to that. But CDs stole it from Records. Records had it first.

Records had two songs on them, the A-side, and the B-side.

oh i had cds because i own cds so i researched specifically that

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Not entirely wrong. It does relate to that. But CDs stole it from Records. Records had it first.

Records had two songs on them, the A-side, and the B-side.

You are correct, but there is debate on weather records actually stole it from cassetts. Most older records from before the 70's say side one and side two.

 

[Selfmate]

You are correct, but there is debate on weather records actually stole it from cassetts. Most older records from before the 70's say side one and side two.

that depends which came first the record or the cassette

 

[StirFriedPanda]

oh i had cds because i own cds so i researched specifically that

History started before CD's. But I appreciate the effort!

 

[seoriverse]

History started before CD's. But I appreciate the effort!

A for effort yay!!

 

[StirFriedPanda]

A for effort yay!!

 

[tricky]

I thought B-side like the other tracks in an album along with the title track lol

 

[dummi]

 

[hxney_jun]

ignorance makes me young. wonderful.

 

[Pirioca]

Kids...

We had strange round black discs in my childhood with an A-Side and a B-Side or 'Flip-Side' (yep, you need to flip this thing to listen to more music).

And no one is downloading, because we had no Internet.