Posted May 21, 20214 yr Melanie C's recent infamous quote (at least, within the fan base) is "B Sides are B Sides for a reason!", implying that B Sides are tracks that aren't quite good enough to be album tracks, let alone singles. However, fans sometimes hear something special in a B Side that the artist/label seemingly didn't. Which B Sides do you think deserved to be included on their albums? Also, do you think any of them were actually good enough to have been singles? In the lists below, I'm only including their commercially released B Sides (that appeared on CD/Cassette/DVD singles). I'm not including: live tracks (for example We Are Family) / any bonus tracks that appeared on releases such as The Real Beckhams DVD or Melanie C's Live DVDs / any leaked songs... technically these are not B Sides. However, if you feel passionate enough to mention any of those tracks, then please feel free to do so. If I've left any B Sides out, apologies! Spice Spice Girls - Bumper to Bumper Spice Girls - Take Me Home Spice Girls - One of These Girls Spice Girls - Sleigh Ride Spice Girls - Baby Come Round Spiceworld Spice Girls - Spice Invaders Spice Girls - Outer Space Girls Spice Girls - Walk of Life Other Spice Girls - Christmas Wrapping A Girl Like Me Emma Bunton - (Hey You) Free Up Your Mind Emma Bunton - Merry-Go Round Emma Bunton - Close Encounter Emma Bunton - Invincible Emma Bunton - Let Your Baby Show You How to Move Free Me Emma Bunton - Don't Tell Me You Love Me Anymore Emma Bunton - So Long Emma Bunton - Takin' It Easy Emma Bunton - Eso Beso Emma Bunton - So Nice (Summer Samba) Life in Mono Emma Bunton - Midnights and Martinis Schizophonic Geri Halliwell - G.A.Y. Geri Halliwell - Summertime Geri Halliwell - Live and Let Die Geri Halliwell - Very Slowly Geri Halliwell - These Boots Are Made for Walking Geri Halliwell - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Scream If You Wanna Go Faster Geri Halliwell - Brave New World Geri Halliwell - New Religion Geri Halliwell - Breaking Glass Geri Halliwell - Getting Better Geri Halliwell - Destiny Passion Geri Halliwell - True Love Never Dies Hot Mel B - Sophisticated Lady Northern Star Melanie C - Angel on My Shoulder Melanie C - I Want You Back Melanie C - Follow Me Melanie C - Something's Gonna Happen Melanie C - I Wonder What It Would Be Like Reason Melanie C - Love to You Melanie C - Like That Melanie C - Living Without You Melanie C - I Love You Without Trying Melanie C - Wonderland Melanie C - Knocked Out Beautiful Intentions Melanie C - Everything Must Change Melanie C - Warrior Melanie C - Runaway This Time Melanie C - Fragile Melanie C - Already Gone Melanie C - We Love to Entertain You The Sea Melanie C - Stop This Train Melanie C - Cruel Intentions Melanie C - Stronger Stages Melanie C - You'll Never Walk Alone Version of Me Melanie C - One Minute (This did end up being included in the Deluxe Version of this album) Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham - In Your Dreams Victoria Beckham - Always Be My Baby Victoria Beckham - Feels So Good
May 21, 20214 yr Author Spice Girls I think the two albums have perfect track lists, so it's hard to imagine anything else being included. Maybe Take Me Home comes closest to being worthy of a slot on Spice. Spiceworld - Walk of Life could have been a nice addition, but I don't think it was a hugely missed opportunity and it's nice as part of the Too Much single package. I definitely don't think any of their B Sides were missed single opportunities! It's been an awfully long time since I heard many of the solo Spice B Sides, so I'd be interested to hear your thoughts! I can provide a few comments though. Emma Bunton I feel like Invincible could have provided a somewhat edgier moment on A Girl Like Me, it isn't hugely far removed from the vibe of What I Am. So Long is gorgeous and worthy of album track status. :heart: Geri Halliwell None of the Schizophonic era B Sides were worthy of album inclusion imo. I'm not very familiar with the Scream B Sides, I'll have to listen again. Passion - I do remember preferring True Love Never Dies to some of the album tracks. Mel B Sophisticated Lady would have stuck out on Hot. I think it's a great track though, better than some songs on Hot. Melanie C A huge number of B Sides, some I recall, some I don't... many of the Northern Star era B Sides are lovely, but I don't believe any of them are missed opportunities. Reason on the other hand... I think any of the Reason B Sides would have helped elevate the album! Already Gone is great, that definitely should have been on This Time. Victoria Beckham I find these tracks to be on par with the bulk of the album tracks tbh, in that they're fine but nothing special.
May 21, 20214 yr I always liked Bumper to Bumper but that’s just me. Probably not album material though.
May 21, 20214 yr Also I didn’t realise there were so many solo b-sides. I may need to investigate the Emma and Mel C (Northern Star era) ones.
May 21, 20214 yr Take Me Home and Walk of Life are sublime! I still listen to both regularly, not so much the others, unless its Christmas and I listen to Sleigh Ride and Christmas Wrapping
May 21, 20214 yr 'Take Me Home' is easily my favourite of all these B-Side, would've been happy to see that on 'Spice' :heart:
May 21, 20214 yr Breaking Glass is one of my favourite Geri song of all time, wouldn't have worked as a single but should have definitely been an album track.
May 21, 20214 yr YES I LOVE THIS GAME :yahoo: :cheer: Spice Spice Girls - Bumper to Bumper Spice Girls - Take Me Home I think both of these would have been incredible album tracks, of they had wanted to take the album to a 12 track and not loose its' connotations of being a classic. Certainly I would have replaced Mama with Take Me Home as it is the better song at least, but I always felt that Bumper to Bumper and Take Me Home represent two of the best qualities of the Spice Girls: one is cheeky, r'n'b summer fun, the other is a moody ballad full of introspection and soul-searching. But I am not sure they would have been great singles... Spiceworld Spice Girls - Walk of Life This one I can see being included in a special edition but I am quite glad it wasnt included in the album. It certainly would have been the weakest album track of them all. Had they released a special edition in 1998, or a delux, I think including Walk Of Life, together with Step To Me would have been great though! Emma Bunton - A Girl Like Me Not really in love with her bsides this era. The best one is Close Encounters but they all scream b-side at best to me. Emma Bunton - Free Me So Long Takin' It Easy Eso Beso So Nice (Summer Samba) In an ideal world, Emma would have released a delux version of Free Me and all of these would have been included in there. All of these are amazing songs, worth it of inclusion in the main album. So Long is definitely her 'lost' masterpiece. I get it that it probably wasnt included in the album as it is quite differnt in sound and lyrically it is actually quite close to No Sign of Life. But trully, it would have been a perfect inclusion, somehow. Takin' It Easy would have sounded great towards the beginning of the album. Eso Beso and So Nice were definitely recorded for the perfection that is the Crickets single bundle, but either would have slotted right in on the album, I think. Certainly Eso Beso sounds like it could do very easily. Emma Bunton - Life in Mono Midnights and Martinis Not sure on this one, just sad we didnt get to hear more bsides actually... Geri Halliwell I only know Breaking Glass and I think that song is probably one of her better ever, so yes. Mel B - Hot Sophisticated Lady is a cute girl and should totally have been on the album, together with Word Up, instead of ABC 123 or I Believe :blink: Melanie C - Northern Star I Wonder What It Would Be Like is a cute song and I coudl see it being on a special edition of the album, actually. Shame it never made it. Melanie C - Reason Love to You Like That Wonderland All of these should have been on the album, instead of Soul Boy, Do It or Loose Myself in You. Wonderland continues to be one of her better songs ever, a total shame that it got relegated to bside on a DVD... wild... Melanie C - This Time Fragile and Already Gone are better than quite a lot of songs in the albums and both would have been better singles than the actual singles of the album... :wacko: Victoria Beckham In Your Dreams could have been cute instead of IOU....
May 21, 20214 yr Breaking Glass is one of my favourite Geri song of all time, wouldn't have worked as a single but should have definitely been an album track. She wanted it on there but the album had been finalised and mastered by the time she recorded it. I think Take Me Home Outer Space Girls Breaking Glass Summertime Brave New World Getting Better Free Up Your Mind So Long I Want You Back Angel on My Shoulder Like That Love to You All deserved album track status.
May 22, 20214 yr Spice None. Take me home is good but the album is already perfect as it is I wouldn't remove anything to replace it with a Bside. Spiceworld Again none the album is perfect as it is. I do think Walk of life is album worthy material and could maybe have been an extra track having 11 tracks and not 10 but I wouldn't remove any for that song. Free Me Emma Bunton - So Long Emma Bunton - Eso Beso Emma Bunton - So Nice (Summer Samba) All of the above are way better than Crickets I would take that out and replace with one of the above. Life in Mono Emma Bunton - Midnights and Martinis Actually a very nice track I'm not sure what I'd take out to replace it with though? Schizophonic None of the B-sides were stronger than album tracks. I do have a massive soft spot for her cover of TBAMFW though. Don't think it would fit the album however. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster Geri Halliwell - Brave New World Geri Halliwell - New Religion Geri Halliwell - Breaking Glass Geri Halliwell - Getting Better Geri Halliwell - Destiny All of these tracks are better than Shake your bootie cutie and Feels like sex so any of the two to replace those two. Brave New World and Getting better maybe? Passion Geri Halliwell - True Love Never Dies I actually really like Passion and I'm not sure which track I would remove to fit this in... the ballads on Passion are highlights of the album. It's a great track though and album worthy. Hot I think Sophisticated Lady is a great track but it wouldn't fit on HOT. Maybe if she had done a more versatile album ala Northern Star then it could have gone on it. Northern Star Melanie C - I Want You Back I adore this track however I don't know which track I would be willing to replace it with as I love the Northern Star album. Tbh pretty much all the NS era B-sides are album worthy but she definitely chose the right tracks. Reason Melanie C - Love to You Melanie C - Like That Melanie C - Living Without You Melanie C - I Love You Without Trying Melanie C - Wonderland Melanie C - Knocked Out ALL of these songs are better than several Reason tracks (Lose yourself in me, Do I, Soul boy). I think I love you without trying is actually single worthy nevermind album worthy, Beautiful Intentions Melanie C - Everything Must Change Love this song and think it is definitely album worthy and actually potentially single worthy, however I love Beautiful Intentions and would struggle to remove a track for it... This Time Melanie C - Fragile Melanie C - Already Gone Melanie C - We Love to Entertain You All three of these tracks are more worthy of being album tracks over quite a few This Time ones. Already Gone is single material. The Sea Melanie C - Cruel Intentions I think this could have replaced a couple of The Sea tracks, maybe Beautiful Mind would be a good place for it. Stages None Version of Me None Victoria Beckham Can't comment I've never had the interest to listen to them.
June 30, 20223 yr I Want You Back, Something's Gonna Happen & I Wonder What It Would Be Like would have been worthy additions to Northern Star. I love their rocky vibe. :music: Already Gone should definitely have been a single from This Time. I adore it so much. It's actually one of my favorite Melanie songs ever. Her adlibs in the end are everything. :heart: Although it's quite an up-tempo song, the lyrics are quite poignant & sad. :cry: I think it's Melanie's most popular B Side on YouTube. uExtlcFMQH8 Special mention also goes to Fragile. It's so beautiful. :wub: RTPIMQa-zdo
June 30, 20223 yr Breaking Glass is one of my favourite Geri song of all time, wouldn't have worked as a single but should have definitely been an album track. It kind of shows just how bad her vocals are though! There's a good song in there though, perhaps its potential could have been realised in different hands.
June 30, 20223 yr WAIT!!!!!!!! Spice Free Me Emma Bunton - So Long Emma Bunton - Eso Beso Emma Bunton - So Nice (Summer Samba) All of the above are way better than Crickets I would take that out and replace with one of the above. What the BUNTON HELL is this @spiceboy????? You are hereby REMOVED from The Flawless Fandom for sacrilege against Emma Bunton herself! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
July 1, 20223 yr Crickets was a bizarre cover, let alone as a single choice... With everyone "coming" everywhere. Breathing and No sign of Life were right there. But even So Long would've been a better choice for the album and single. Edited July 1, 20223 yr by McAndrew
July 1, 20223 yr Crickets was a perfect single and that is a hill I will die on Here lies Mr X he died from terrible emma music choices…
July 1, 20223 yr Take me Home Walk Of Life Geri Halliwell - Brave New World . Geri Halliwell - Breaking Glass . Emma Bunton - So Long Emma Bunton - So Nice (Summer Samba) OMG Mel C a lot really lol Melanie C - I Want You Back Melanie C - Love to You Melanie C - Like That Melanie C - Living Without You Melanie C - I Love You Without Trying Melanie C - Everything Must Change Melanie C - Fragile Melanie C - Already Gone Melanie C - We Love to Entertain You Melanie C - Cruel Intentions
July 1, 20223 yr Here lies Mr X he died from terrible emma music choices… Sorry I dont speak to ex-Flawless fans :P
July 1, 20223 yr I love Is This Love, but I have no idea from what era it is. And the story about this song. Spice : Take Me Home - album track Spice World: Walk of Life - album track forever: Woman 😂 - album track and lead single
