For those of you who remember the 12" single, back in the days when we used to all get as excited about a new B-side track as we did about the extended/remixed A-sides, I'm interested to hear what everyone's top 3 favourite A and B-side combinations are.

Mine are:

Mountains(extended)/Alexa De Paris
Housequake/Shockadelica
Pop Life/Hello

Lets Pretend Were Married/Irresistable Bitch
When Doves Cry/17 Days
Rasberry Beret/Shes Always In My Hair

Honrable mentions:
Pop Life/Hello
Lets Go Crazy/Erotic City
etc

Let's Work/Gotta Stop Messin' About
Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City
Kiss/?

Shockadelica was on the b-side of If I Was Your Girlfriend not Housequake.

When Doves Cry/17 Days
Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City
Raspberry Beret/She's Always In My Hair

Hmmm, whatever happened to those classics. My faves...

When Doves Cry / 17 Days (As good as anything on the Purple Rain album)
Let's Pretend We're Married / Irresistable Bitch (We're not going to hear a song like this again!)
Raspberry Beret / She's Always In My Hair (The most prominent of Prince's "hair fetish" songs!)

(BTW Incognito - B Side to Kiss was Love Or Money - some funky Camille shit)

Also liked Scarlet Pussy - gotta be in the right mood for it though...

Okay, some "I know better" :
Shockadelica was the b-Side of If I Was Your Girlfriend and Housequake was b-side of I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man. So the combination Housequake/Shockadelica is questionable in this sense.

And Camille... is every song with a speed up voice a Camille track? So that would make songs like Automatic and Erotic City also tracks with a Camille appearance?
Whatever - Love or $ is some funky shit indeed.

Um, sorry roverlo....lol..."Housequake" was the B-side of "U Got The Look"...


Mine--

Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City
When Doves Cry/17 Days
Raspberry Beret/She's Always In My Hair

wellbeyond said:

you're right...luckily Housequake/Shockadelica remains an invalid combination as A/B-side
[This message was edited Fri May 3 12:29:19 PDT 2002 by roverlo]

if i was your girlfriend/shockadelica
i wish u heaven/scarlet pussy
scandalous/sex

Hey WB, those are my exact 3 choices... although I don't have the Let's Go Crazy single. The When Doves Cry and Raspberry Beret 45s were the only Prince 45s I've ever owned back in the 80s. Loved them!!!

"Just like the sun, the Rainbow Children rise."

wellbeyond said:

Yeah, it don't get much better.

She's always in My Hair/PaisleyPark remix
LaLaLaHeHeHe/was that Sign O Times

#1 always will be "Let's Go Crazy" b/w "Erotic City".

2) "Raspberry Beret" b/w "She's Always In My Hair"

3) "Pop Life" b/w "Hello"


LGC & EC is the one that REALLY got me into Prince's music. I was a fan before, but then I discovered the b-sides and realized how phenominal he was/is. Erotic City just blew me away back in '84.