You can live without
them. Far too many artists never gave a fuck or chose to include everything
worthy on the actual album. Like I say, not the end of the world and hardly a
sign of severe songwriting ineptitude. Unless it’s some god-awful remix, in
which case it’s just laziness and poor taste.
However, I have an
utmost respect for an artist who can record a terrific B-side and then leave it
at that. Of course, on occasion it simply goes to show that the artist in
question has no control over quality and can’t tell good from bad, but that is
hardly the case with songs like Nick Cave’s “Little Empty Boat”, Pulp’s “Ansaphone”
or, say, Luke Haines’ “Car Crash”.
Oh the number of
fuckers who would kill for coming close
to this brilliance:
