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Hidden, uncredited, on the B-side of Mercury Rev’s first CD single Car Wash Hair is Untitled, a 30-minute bad acid comedown of scathing guitar loops and low sine waves, soured by repeated screams of “I want to be inside you”. New blog: b-side.website/2025/03/31/unt…

Performed at New York’s Baseball Hall of Fame on a bat-shaped guitar, Centerfield’s broad appeal put Creedence Clearwater Revival songwriter John Fogerty back in the game. Its riff-based homage helped A-side Rock And Roll Girls into the US charts, 40 years ago this month.

Released #OTD 60 years ago, Who’ll Be The Next In Line was a passive-aggressive tune about broken hearts. The nagging, nervous flip of Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy, it continued the Kinks tradition for B-sides better than their A-sides (and later gained top billing in the US).

#enclosurethree @Headpress For the next week this self-printed ARC will be my constant companion. A show based on this book is due in May. Hope until then it can be bought over here on the continent. Dear #bleepbloopfriends: It is ace.

A game-changer that set the pop-disco template for the remainder of Hot Chocolate’s career, You Sexy Thing didn’t initially float the boat of super-producer Mickie Most. He made it B-side of Blue Night #OTD 50 years ago before having a change of heart.

Book Review: FASCINATION: THE CELLULOID DREAMS OF JEAN ROLLIN by David Hinds from @Headpress Publishing hayeshudsonshouseofhorror.blogspot.com/2025/02/book-r…

North Carolina songwriter Ben Folds didn’t delete the expletives with his uninhibited piano take on Dr Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit, B-side of Landed. Released 20 years ago, it quickly became a live favourite. Wary of getting ‘cancelled’, Folds excised it from his sets in the 10s.

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#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander's interview with Nicky Henson features in ART! TRASH! TERROR! "This script comes through the letterbox one day from my agent and I was already a motorcyclist..." #psychomania #cultfilm

The greatest song of hope was initially given B-side status. A Change Is Gonna Come came to Sam Cooke fully-formed, following an altercation at a whites-only motel. That incident reprised itself with tragic consequences prior to its release, 60 years ago, on the flip of Shake.

#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander has picked his nine unforgettable episodes of The Twilight Zone in the pages of ART! TRASH! TERROR! but there are so many possibilities...

#arttrashterror countdown! They both put their own stamp on the role, but if you *had* to choose, which version of Maniac is your favourite, the original with Joe Spinell or the remake with Elijah Wood?

An occasional book recommendation to those who love a book recommendation. I didn't quite know what to expect of this- well, I did. I expected some trashy bloggers treatment of grim sites of death written in the glib style of Hello. BUT. It was an informative revelation.

It's also definitely worth checking out this wide-ranging interview with @SongsofMaldoror about his work: yperion.substack.com/p/interview-wi…

*NEW ON THE BLOG* @harbottlestores reads @SongsofMaldoror's Flowers Blooming Fire and reminisces about transgressive fiction of the 1990s and early 2000s. headpress.com/blog/2025/01/3…

#arttrashterror countdown! With less than a week to go until the release of Chris Alexander's ART! TRASH TERROR!, which Nic Cage are you today?

Fabulous review of Heidi Honeycutt's I Spit On Your Celluloid in the latest @cine_excess Journal! Read it and an excellent set of articles on Demons, Darkness and the Abject here: cine-excess.co.uk/heidi-honeycut…