Jana's Piano Bench: B-Sides Want List

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The B-Sides Want List
and my trading rules

Tori puts songs on her singles that aren't on the albums, and some of them are as good as anything she's ever done. A few of the singles only came out in England, so tracking them all down is half the fun and most of my grocery money. Here's where my collection stands.

HAVE = I own it and can make you a tape. WANT = please, please, please.

Me and a Gun (1991, England)

Thoughts WANT

Silent All These Years (1991-92)

Upside Down HAVE
Ode to the Banana King HAVE
Song for Eric HAVE

China (1992)

Sugar HAVE
Flying Dutchman HAVE
Humpty Dumpty WANT

Winter (1992)

The Pool HAVE
Take to the Sky HAVE
Sweet Dreams HAVE

Crucify (1992)

Here. In My Head HAVE
Mary HAVE
and the three covers, Angie, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Thank You HAVE (two copies; see below)

Cornflake Girl (1994)

Sister Janet HAVE
Honey HAVE
Daisy Dead Petals HAVE
the covers, A Case of You, If 6 Was 9 and Strange Fruit WANT

God (1994)

Home on the Range (Cherokee Edition) HAVE
Over It HAVE

Pretty Good Year (1994)

Black Swan WANT

Caught a Lite Sneeze (1996)

Graveyard HAVE
Hungarian Wedding Song HAVE
This Old Man HAVE
Toodles Mr. Jim HAVE
Samurai WANT
That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song) WANT

Talula (1996)

Frog on My Toe HAVE
Sister Named Desire HAVE
Alamo WANT
London Girls WANT
Amazing Grace / Til the Chicken WANT

Spark (1998)

Purple People HAVE
Bachelorette HAVE
Cooling HAVE

Jackie's Strength (1998)

Never Seen Blue WANT
Beulah Land WANT

THE HOLY GRAIL

Y Kant Tori Read, the 1988 album, on anything: record, tape, CD, a tape of a tape of a tape WANT WANT WANT

Favorites among what I have, if you're new to the B-sides and want to know where to start: Upside Down, Take to the Sky, Honey, Sugar (which she still plays live), and Cooling, which I think is the most beautiful thing on this page. I don't know why some of these didn't make the albums. I've decided that's her business.

Trading rules

1. I trade tapes, I don't sell them. Never. If anybody ever tries to sell you a dub of a B-side for money, don't. And buy her actual records. She earned it.

2. Blank for blank. Send me good blank tapes and return postage and I'll send them back full. If you've got something on my WANT list, I'll make your tapes for free and pay the postage too.

3. Good tapes only. TDK SA90s or Maxell XLIIs, or something just as good. Nothing from the grocery store checkout lane. They stretch.

4. Tell me what generation it is. If your copy is a tape of a tape of a tape, say so. I'll say so on mine too. I write everything on the J-card.

5. Pack them right. Padded envelope, cases taped shut, nothing loose.

6. Be patient in December and April. Those are juries. I will not be dubbing anything. I'll be in Room 14 with Brahms.

7. Real CD singles too. I'll trade my spare Crucify (I have two) toward any of the English singles above, or pay what's fair.

Write to me at [email protected] with what you have and what you want, and tell me your favorite song while you're at it. I always want to know.

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list updated September 25, 1999