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Yep, the Manics have got a lot of good B-sides. What are your favourites? I like;

- Comfort Comes
- Sepia
- Can't take my eyes off you
- Raindrops keep falling on my head
- Dead Trees & Traffic Islands
- Prologue to History

I wonder what the chances are of a B-sides album ever coming out. I have comfort comes on cassette, but the recording has become a little screwed up after repeated playing. I'd love it on CD or MP3.

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Strange.

Mine are: Dead Yankee Drawl, A vision of dead desire, and the cover of the Guns and Roses classic Its so easy.

For my sins researcher 195959 I have never heard the B-sides that you mention. I mean I know of them, but I still haven't heard them. I remember coming across a bootleg CD a couple of years back in a market called 'Manic's Acoustics' or something ike that, and it was basically a whole load of B-sides from the GT era. Damn I really should have bought that when I saw it. Every time I went back there looking, it was never again on show.

Well it's not so much a B-side but i loved it anyway:-
On TV in about 1995 I saw James do a solo acoustic version of Whams ' Last Christmas'
it sounded sooooo much better than the original cack!
Sorry I meant 'track'

I have an ancient tape of Manics B-Sides, but haven;t been able to find them elsewhere, until recently. Try manics.net for hard to find MP3's.

Mokey

Oooh, I'm a big fan of Richey-era Manics (thus I belong to the Old Fanbase), and I loved their b-sides so much. The first one that springs to mind is their cover of The Happy Mondays' "Wrote for Luck", but they have so many that I can't even remember them.

I loved them so much... they were to me what Nirvana were to a lot of people.

james does an version of bright eyes.. on an accoustic.. its brilliant..