Latest b-side tracks
Care - An Evening In The Ray
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “This one has been inspired by Revolutionary Spirit : A Post-Punk Exorcism, a book published in late 2023 by Jawbone…” on Jan 30th, 2024 →
The Wedding Present - Niagara
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A slight deviation from the norm today. Dalliance was the 13th single. It was released in at the beginning of…” on Jan 20th, 2024 →
The Wedding Present - Box Elder
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A month after Kennedy had grabbed the indie-world by its lapels and given it the most almighty of shakes, the…” on Dec 16th, 2023 →
Ride - Stampede
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A GUEST POSTING by ERIC from OAKLAND RIDE “b-sides and album tracks” ICA I’ve been digging through my RIDE collection…” on Dec 12th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - Unfaithful
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The next 45 from The Wedding Present has proved to be the most popular of them all among the fan…” on Dec 9th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - I'm Not Always So Stupid
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Debut album George Best, released in October 1987, had been a hit. The end of year polls in most of…” on Nov 18th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - Every Mothers Son
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “We’ve now reached 1987, the year in which The Wedding Present would break out of cult status and take firm…” on Nov 5th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - At The Edge Of The Sea
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It took around nine months after the debut before the second 45 from The Wedding Present was available to buy.…” on Oct 15th, 2023 →
Electronic - Lucky Bag +3 remixes
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Yup. It’s come out in the 7″ lucky dip. I wrote about it in October 2013. I’m more than happy…” on Oct 4th, 2023 →
The Smiths - Handsome Devil (live)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “My recollections of 1983 being as great a year as there has ever been in terms of the singles charts…” on May 22nd, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Sexy Northerner
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A little bit of background as it’s something I was very much unaware of. This is all from the ‘History’…” on May 7th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “What follows is likely to be the longest single posting in the series……but that’s as much down to contemporary review…” on Apr 23rd, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Hit And Miss
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The first sighting of the Pet Shop Boys in 1996 came on 19 February at the Brit Awards. Not that…” on Apr 16th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Decadence +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “No sooner had Go West taken its leave of the singles charts was another single readied from Very. I Wouldn’t…” on Apr 2nd, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Music For Boys
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “As mentioned last week, Pet Shop Boys spent much of the first half of 1991 on a world tour which…” on Mar 19th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Don Juan +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “And now we reach what I think is my favourite phase of the Pet Shop Boys between September 1988 and…” on Feb 18th, 2023 →