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)

 

 

Lost For Words (b-side to Innocent Eyes)

 

 

Right There Waiting (b-side to Not Me, Not I)

 

 

Here I Am (b-side to Predictable)

 

 

Silence Be Heard (b-side to Mistaken Identity)

 

 

The Riddle (b-side to A Little Too Late)

 

 

Take Me Home (b-side to In This Life)

 

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!

The Riddle is good :D

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

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!)

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 :(

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.