Pop.1280

For our ‘kill your darlings’ issue, we decided to give our monthly playlists a different focus and provide our dear readers with hidden music. Brooklyn cyberpunks Pop. 1280 helped us kindly with this task and sent us their ten favourite B-sides. It’s hard to think why these songs didn’t make the cut back in the day. Wonderful material. Dig in!

 

1. HTRK – Panties (live)

 

B-side from their Ha single. Guitar sound KILLS.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/KvUTWlz9cwM

 

2. Queen – Blurred Vision

 

A very successful studio experiment from the one of our greatest bands. B-side to One Vision, from the album A Kind of Magic. Understand? Step to Queen.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/lpJKRr1FIvA

 

3. Motörhead – Waltz of the Vampire

 

Every motorhead song is good, but this one is exactly the same as another song just with a different name. Earlier and far superior version of ‘Dance’.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/dgNZL68opKw

 

4. Yvette – Cold Sweat

 

Somebody get Yvette to score a film, goddammit!

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/lfC5DpF4Sfk

 

5. Killing Joke – Pssyche

 

B-side to Wardance 7″. One of the best songs by possibly the sickest band ever. Dodge the bullets or carry the gun, the choice is yours!

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/-RnYhOxz_Zs

 

6. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Burning Fever

 

B-side to Cut Down 12″. Basically every song this band ever wrote was a killer single, even the B-sides. So much better than Joy Division.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/349HbAZrSBM

 

7. Ministry – Tonight We Murder

 

This song makes me want to listen to Ministry all day. B-side to Stigmata 12″.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/Xx4ZVvYvtlM

 

8. Six Finger Satellite – Human Operator

 

Great B-Side from a perpetually overlooked band from the 90’s. Maybe Juan Maclean will lose his mind and decide to reunite 6fs. It is useless to resist.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/3ZsKrQ3eTSk

 

9. OMD – 66 and fading

 

The B-Side to Telegraph single. A great song that didn’t make it on to my favorite OMD record. It’s all synth washes but manages to carry a lot of nuance and emotion.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/SXa1vAtFpSE

 

10. John Cale – Captain Hook

 

Off the Sabotage/Live LP recorded at CBGB’s. Cale sounds like he’s getting to the end of his rope on this track and the lyrics make the narrator sound the same way on his journey to India. By hook or by crook I am the captain of this line.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/HO3qk1ME3EY

 

Pop. 1280 play on 21 January at OCCII, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.