Posted September 1, 201014 yr One of the countless reasons that I love Delta is her many GREAT b-sides. She could easily be one of those acts that could get away with releasing a b-sides compilation. Here's a comprehensive chronological list of the b-sides from all of her UK and Aus singles; Hear Me Calling Lost For Words Right There Waiting Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Happy Christmas (War Is Over) Here I Am (Piano/Cello version) Visualise How A Dream Looks Beautiful Madness Hollow No More (with Brian McFadden) Silence Be Heard The Riddle If I Forget (Demo Mix) Take Me Home Black Velvet (Live) Edge of Seventeen (Live Medley) The ones I most highly recommend are Hear Me Calling, Lost For Words (which sounds like Teardrop by Massive Attack at the start), Right There Waiting, Here I Am, Silence Be Heard, The Riddle (which was better than it's a-side A Little Too Late imo) and Take Me Home (which was seriously better than most of the 'Delta' album, why was it left off?). All would have been very worthy album tracks for their respective eras. Bizarrely, the album track In My Own Time was also a UK b-side to both Born To Try and Lost Without You, so was the 2nd Delta song I ever heard! To save you searching for my favourites, here they are; Hear Me Calling (b-side to Lost Without You) Qd30zZwwZHA Lost For Words (b-side to Innocent Eyes) 9cfdGTxhfO4 Right There Waiting (b-side to Not Me, Not I) VaAH2bpgj1M Here I Am (b-side to Predictable) lJEl-izODHA Silence Be Heard (b-side to Mistaken Identity) cR4zL7z0n44 The Riddle (b-side to A Little Too Late) S-ixAM3xICw Take Me Home (b-side to In This Life) ufp5OWJVZ3A
October 1, 201014 yr Author This needs a bump, I demand that it's not ignored :P The Riddle and Silence Be Heard deserve to be appreciated by any casual Delta listeners, both should have been album tracks somewhere along the line!
October 1, 201014 yr Author Glad you like! It was a lot more poppy than the stuff on Mistaken Identity, hence why it wasn't included I guess. Either that or it just hadn't been written yet, seeing as it didn't surface until 6 months after the album was released. A lot of people preferred the other b-side from the same release, If I Forget, but The Riddle was so infectious with a great chorus - one of my summer 05 anthems :D
October 3, 201014 yr How Take Me Home failed to make it onto the "Delta" album, I do not know! Some of the bsides I love apart from those you mentioned are Fortune and Love, Fever, If I Forget, Turn You Away and Unsure. Really looking forward to the Bsides, that Delta will dazzle us with during the next era (obviously looking forward to the new album too!)
October 3, 201014 yr Author How Take Me Home failed to make it onto the "Delta" album, I do not know! Some of the bsides I love apart from those you mentioned are Fortune and Love, Fever, If I Forget, Turn You Away and Unsure. Really looking forward to the Bsides, that Delta will dazzle us with during the next era (obviously looking forward to the new album too!) Agreed, it was one of the five best tracks of the era :wub: I mentioned If I Forget, and forgot about Turn You Away :drama: The others weren't b-sides I don't think, did they ever appear on any singles, or were they just random leaked album leftovers :unsure: Yep me too, unless she goes digital like everyone else and doesn't release CD singles or b-sides anymore :(
October 4, 201014 yr They were all Believe Again bsides. Fortune and Love was on the CD and digital copy. Unsure, was on the digital single package sold by BigPond and Fever was the exclusive itunes bside.
October 4, 201014 yr Author Ah right. My Delta knowledge is clearly sadly lacking r.e. Australian tracklists :( I have the CD single on import but it only has mixes on it I think, I guess she released two editions of the CD single? It's annoying that none of these songs ever make it onto UK iTunes.
October 20, 201014 yr I agree her b-sides are amazing, right from the original compositions to the covers like Happy Xmas (War Is Over) which was a good version.
June 17, 201114 yr Author Listening to The Riddle, and I'm just thinking how much brighter (and perhaps more successful commercially) Mistaken Identity might have been if she'd taken out some of the dark songs and thrown in a few of these much happier b-sides. Of course a couple of the darker songs would HAVE to be left in so that the album didn't feel completely inauthentic; Alternative 'happy Mistaken Identity'; 1. Out Of The Blue 2. The Analyst 3. Mistaken Identity 4. The Riddle 5. Sanctuary 6. Be Strong 7. Beautiful Madness 8. Almost Here 9. How A Dream Looks 10. Electric Storm 11. Silence Be Heard 12. Visualise 13. If I Forget 14. You Are My Rock Would have appealed far more to the Innocent Eyes crowd, although it PAINS me to see Last Night On Earth and Extraordinary Day off :drama:
June 17, 201114 yr I don't know her b-sides as well as I do the album tracks, but I do like these ones: Take Me Home Silence Be Heard The Riddle If I Forget Unsure Fever Black Velvet (Live at MAX Sessions) Edge of Seventeen (Live Medley) But I've got nothing against any of them.
June 17, 201114 yr Author The Innocent Eyes and some of the Mistaken Identity b-sides were very close to the calibre of the album tracks. And how Take Me Home was left off Delta I really don't know, could have been a classic album track, it's so anthemic and well produced - absolutely wasted as a b-side.
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