This is kind of the topic of my column in Write Hear, but since that's more about b-sides, I'll list a few personal double sided faves:
Argosy: Imagine/ Mr.Boyd
Velvet Opera: Theres a hole in my pocket/ she keeps giving me these feelings
Terry Britten: 2,000 weeks/Bargain Day
Freedom: Where Will You be Tonight/Trying to get a glimpse of you
Toast: Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall/ Summer of Mrand
The Exselsior Spring: Happy Miranda/ It
The Tickle: Subway/ Good Evening
The Quotations: Hello Memories/ Pretend
Jon Plum: you Keep Changing Your Mind/ An Apple Falls
These are 45s where the b-side pleases me pretty much as much as the a-side.

Well, of course this can be highly subjective. However, I have looked through the list of my my 45s and come up with quite a few. I've stuck to UK 45s and here are my selections for B-M (couldn't find any UK double siders under 'A' that were not more 'fampus'). I'll now scour N-Z. These are in my opinion good double siders.That is to say I like the B side as much as the A side. I've stuck to 1965-70 largely, or I would have gone into a whole other realm of junk shop glam as well. These are not largely psych obvisouly, but pop and beat sometimes from the same era. I've tried to avoid anything too obvious but there again what's obvious to one person someone else may never have heard.

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Baskin & Copperfield - Stranger On The Ground / I Never See The Sun (Decca 1970)
George Bean – The Candy Shop is Closed / Smile From Sequin (1967, CBS)
Dave Berry & The Sponge – Huma Lama / Oh What A Life (Decca, 1969)
Matthew Bones – I Am The Pixie / Two Sugars (Pye 196
Breakthru’ – Ice Cream Tree / Julius Caesar (Mercury, 196
Pete Brown & Pibloko - Living Life Backwards / High Flying Electric Bird (Harvest 1969)
Buggy – Roly Pole Coaster / Harry The Keeper (Parlophone, demo, 1970
Sasha Caro – Grade 3, Section 2 / Little Maid’s Song (Decca, 1967)
David & David – In The City / Good Morning Morning (Columbia 1970)
The Decision - In The Shade of Your Love / Constable Jones (MCA 196
The Eggy – You’re Still Mine / Hooky (Spark, 1969)
Eli – Never Mind / I’ll Be Looking Out For You (Parlophone,1967)
Kenny Everett – Nice Time / And Now For A Little Train Music (Deram, 196
Adam Faith – Cowman Milk Your Cow / Daddy What’ll Happen To Me (Parlophone, 1967)
Peter Fenton – Marble Breaks, Iron Bends / Small Town (1966, Fontana)
Wayne Fontana – Never An Everyday Thing / Waiting For A Break In The Clouds (Fontana 196
Dean Ford & The Gaylords (UK) – The Name Game / That Lonely Feeling (Columbia, 1965)
The Fortunes - The Idol / His Smile Was A Lie (United Artists 1967
Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon – I’ m Beside Myself / Animal Song (Marmalade, 1969)
Zion de Gallier – Me / Winter Will Be Cold (Parlophon, 196
Colin Giffin – Changes In Our Times / When I Was So Young (CBS 1969)
Trev Gordon (UK) – Floatin’ / Everyone Knows (PYE, 1966)
Jet Harris – My Lady / You Don’t Live Twice (Fontana 1967)
Alex Harvey – The Sunday Song / Horizons (Decca, 1967)
The Hi Fis – Snakes And Ladders / Tread Softly For The Sleepers (Star Club, Germany, 1967)
High Noon – Old Fashioned Feeling / Drivin’, Drivin’ (CBS 1970)
High Noon – Dragonfly / Bring Back That Love Again (CBS demo, 1970)
High Noon – Living Is A Lovin’ Thing / Blind Alley (CBS 1971)
Eddie Howell – Easy Street / Judy’s Gone (Parlophone,1969)
Greg Hunter – 5 0’Clock World / Away From Happiness (Parlophone, 1966) B side is by..
Kris Ife – Imagination / I’m Coming Round (To Her Way Of Thinking) (Columbia, demo, 196
The Illusive Dream – Electric Garden / Back Again (RCA, 1969)
The Imp-acts – Dum Dum Song / If I Were The Only One (1965, PYE)
Ipsissimus – Hold On / Lazy Woman (Parlophone, 1969)
Jigsaw – Lollipop & Goodie Man / Seven Fishes (1970, Fontana)
Jiminy Crikitt – Life’s A See-Saw / Isabella (MCA UK, 1970)
Joyce’s Angels - Flowers For My Friends / Reginald Smithfield Harvey Jones (Major-Minor 1967)
Jupiter – The Meteor Song / Life Is Getting Better Every Day (Parlaphone demo, 1972)
Billy J Kramer – Town of Tuxley Toymaker Part 1 / Chinese Girl (Reaction, 1967)
The Laurels – Sunshine Thursday / Threepence A Tune (1968, RCA)
Legs – So Many Faces / You Bet You Have (Warner Bros., 1973)
Mike Lennox – Images of You / Words I Like (Decca 196
Lyons & Malone – Dr Gentle / She’s Alright (Jayboy, 1969)
The Magic Lanterns – Rumplestiltskin / I Stumbled (CBS 1966)
Magicians - Painting On Wood / Slow Motion (MCA UK 196
Midas Mould – Information Emily / Love Sweet Love (Columbia, 1972)
The Ministry of Sound (UK) – White Collar Worker / Back Street Driver (Decca 1966)
The Mirror – Gingerbread Man / Faster Than Light (Phillips UK, 196
The Mojos – Until My Baby Comes Home / Seven Park Avenue (Liberty UK, 196
The Monopoly – We’re All Going To The Seaside / It Isn’t Easy (Polydor, 1967)
The Moving Finger – Jeremy The Lamp / The Pain of My Misfortune (Mercury,196

...and here's N-W
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The Nashville Teens (UK) – Ella James / Tennessee Woman (1971, Parlophone)
The Noy’s Band (UK) – Love Potion No.9 / Eldorado (Dawn, demo, 1974)
Octopus – River / Thief (1970, Penny Farthing)
Roger Earl Okin – Yellow Petals / I Can’t Face The Animals (Parlophone, 1967)
The Pentad – Don’t Throw It All Away / Too Many Ways (Parlophone, demo, 1965)
Rockin’ Horse – Biggest Gossip In Town / You Say (1971, Phillips)
Rockin’ Horse – Julian The Hooligan / Stayed Out Late Last Night (Phillips 1971)
Saker – Hey Joe / Constantly (Columbia, 1969)
The Scaffold – Charity Bubbles / Goose (1969, Parlophone)
Selwyn & John - Bogey Man / When God Gave Us Names (CBS UK 67)
Sight & Sound – Ally, Ally / Little Jackie Monday (Fontana, 1968)
Paul Slade - Sound of Love / Odyssey (London, USA 1968)
Paul Slade – Remember Daphne / Heaven Held (Decca, 1968)
Peter Lee Stirling (UK) - Oh What A Fool / I’m Sporting A New Baby (Decca, 1966)
Peter Lee Stirling (UK) - Goodbye Thimble Mill Lane / Hey Conductor (Decca, 1967)
Taiconderoga – Witchi Tai To / Speakin’ My Mind (Stateside Italy, 1970)
Vineyard – Ghost Train (Here It Come Again) / Unicorns And Minatours (Decca, 1974)
Vineyard – Myla / Charlemaine (1974, Deram)
Keith West – On a Saturday / The Kid Was A Killer (Parlophone, 1968)
Wilfred – Candle In The Wind / Between The Lines (Parlophone 1970)

I am very much liking a record by Tracey Dean I do not know if this is band name or vocalist name but the two sounds are Moonshiner & Boy On The Ball. Interesting mix of psych and glamrock and vocals very similar to Sharkey from Undertones but this came out many years before. Any here know it or have more info for me?
Best, Eggy

Hi eggy,
Welcome to the wonderful world of junk shop glam. All manner of below the radar boot stompers, Bowie wannabe’s, producers taking a shot at a one-off alter image etc. in the 1970s

Tracey Dean aka P.J Hollywood was in fact Pete Bellotte who worked with Donna Summer, Janet Jackson etc. But before all that he was Tracey Dean. See two links below.

http://purepop1uk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/my-version-is-better-than-yours-part-11.html
Tracey Dean - Moonshiner

http://crazeekids-music.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/tracey-dean-moonshiner-1974.html

for pic sleeves of Moonshiner – sound files not there though.

If you’re interested or anyone else is – I long ago compiled a comp from my own junk shop glam 45s of the most uber-tub thumping, terrace boot stompers from around the European 1970s inclusing Tracey Dean's 'Moonshiner'and called it ‘Glam Slam’ You can d/l it from my dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oprpom0g8i8lqje/AACcCMNtR8_FzBkpMA9ndI3Xa?dl=0

Glam Slam – art and track list:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9gvzsln627xym88/AAAWQ4LtuYG3aUqH2gnmSAVBa?dl=0

I also wrote an article about JSG for Bucketful of Brains #75 which I also uploaded to dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/28rk2gvmkis2o28/AACOAVIVw6_ibh2mzlR0z720a?dl=0

I hope you enjoy explolring this stuff!
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Thanks for that Paul,its only recently ive ventured into the world of glam,i bought a cd titled Velvet Tinmine,i thoroughly enjoyed it and am open to other cd comps or artistes albums what may tickle the glitterball in me.I did get introduced by a good guy on here to the glam(and hard rock) sounds of The Sweet albums,so i've bought a few Sweet albums which do feature a mix of glam and hard rock....I think someone mentioned The Glitter Band on here a wee while ago,what is their best album??I feel sorry for the Glitter Band as a mention of glitter always seem too remind folk of that horrible excuse for a human being Gary Glitter(i personally wouldve hung him up by his balls).See what i mean ,i just couldnt resist mentioning the odious git.


Sorry!!!I bet they're a pretty good band on their own.Open to suggestions.

By the way Paul what a fab list of good double siders!!!!!

Hi Stuart,
Junkshop Glam comps on CD are all a few years old now. The more recent comps have been on vimyl ('Glam Stains Across Europe' Vols.1 & 2 for instance). However, CD comps that I would recommend if you enjoyed Velvet Tinmine are:

Glitter From The Litterbin (Pye sides) (Sanctuary)
Blitzing The Ballroom – 20 UK power glam incendiaries (Psychic Circle PCCD7021)
Boobs! The Junkshop Glam Discoteque (RPM)
Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet: 24 Nederglam tracks from the early 70s (Excellsior, Nederlands)- easy to find in Uk though

There's another on RPM I can't recall the name of at the moment as well.

Also, for the hard rockin' stuff (like the Sweet B Sides of the 73-8 era) I would definitely point you towards the much overlooked album from 1977 - Slade - 'Whatever Happened To Slade?' On this one they are a match for any hard rock band of the era. It was reissued by Salvo a few years ago on CD along with all their back catalogue. The Glitterband albums have been reissued on the Cherry Red umbrella imprint '7Ts' label, so you should find them easily enough on Amazon etc. Also try forgotten Glitter Band fan-band 'Hello' also reissued by 7Ts.

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