I have a few "cutouts" and radio-only promotion albums.
They used to be actively traded at the Capitol Records swapmeet in Hollywood and the Pasadena City College swapmeet here in So Cal. three decades ago.
Best ones I know were promotion-only live shows put out on Warner Brothers as full length vinyl LPs. The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Dire Straits and G. Parker and the Rumour released stunning live shows in and around 1980, some of the best music of their careers and beautifully recorded and mixed off the sound boards.
Elvis Costello also released a EP, Live at Hollywood High, as part of the Armed Forces album in 1982.
All five are worth seeking out, rare in vinyl and highly collectable.
REM has issued fan club 45 singles every year of their existance and they are very quirky in song selections and genres. These occasionally end up as bonus tracks when individual albums get remastered overseas.
Bonus tracks are big in the UK. Oasis has made a career out of releasing these. The band with the best base of B-sides is Radiohead, which now offers over 30 songs, all offered on CD singles or iTune downloads. U2 had many B-sides, both as 45s and CD singles, which they consolidated in the 1980 to 1990 and 1991 to 2000 Greatest Hits compilations.
Some of their better songs are contained there.
They used to be actively traded at the Capitol Records swapmeet in Hollywood and the Pasadena City College swapmeet here in So Cal. three decades ago.
Best ones I know were promotion-only live shows put out on Warner Brothers as full length vinyl LPs. The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Dire Straits and G. Parker and the Rumour released stunning live shows in and around 1980, some of the best music of their careers and beautifully recorded and mixed off the sound boards.
Elvis Costello also released a EP, Live at Hollywood High, as part of the Armed Forces album in 1982.
All five are worth seeking out, rare in vinyl and highly collectable.
REM has issued fan club 45 singles every year of their existance and they are very quirky in song selections and genres. These occasionally end up as bonus tracks when individual albums get remastered overseas.
Bonus tracks are big in the UK. Oasis has made a career out of releasing these. The band with the best base of B-sides is Radiohead, which now offers over 30 songs, all offered on CD singles or iTune downloads. U2 had many B-sides, both as 45s and CD singles, which they consolidated in the 1980 to 1990 and 1991 to 2000 Greatest Hits compilations.
Some of their better songs are contained there.