100 (or perhaps more) great double A-sided singles...

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The rules!

It has to have two songs equally credited on the front cover (so no Grass/Dear God). Both of them have to be great, so just picking a song which is great that had a rub-AA with it doesn't count (i.e. Heartbeat/Tragedy). Also, it has to be the first single release for both sides of the coin (so no everything you were about to post)

To start, then.

ELO - Confusion/Last Train To London
Pulp - Mis-shapes/Sorted for E's and Wizz
Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving/Who Do You Think You Are?

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

I think Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane was a double a-side.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

procession/everythings gone green

― zappi (joni), Monday, 17 October 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

prince and the revolution - let's go crazy/erotic city

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 October 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Going Underground/Dreams of Children

Peaches/Go Buddy Go

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, James, was there a different release than this? According to that, "Erotic City" isn't credited equally to LGC.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Abba - Voulez-Vous/Angel Eyes
Au Pairs - Diet/It's Obvious
BDP - My Philosophy/Stop The Violence
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Cure - Killing An Arab/10.15 Saturday Night
The Fall - Couldn't Get Ahead/Rollin' Dany
Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby/Will The Wolf Survive
The Normal - TVOD/Warm Leatherette
Propaganda - Duel/Jewel
Robert Rental - Paralysis/ACC
The Slits - Typical Girls/I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Stone Roses - Fools Gold/What The World Is Waiting For
Tyla Gang - Styrofoam/Texas Chainsaw Massacre Boogie

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.on-fiction.com/images_cure/TIB/killinganarab_cov.jpg

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tinyrecords-web.com/jacket/ROSES7.jpg

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

808 State - Cubik/Olympic

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

George Harrison - My Sweet Lord / Isn't it a Pity
Interpol - NYC / Say Hello to the Angels
Beach Boys - Wouldn't it Be Nice / God Only Knows
Sly & the Family Stone - Thank U Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again / Everybody is a Star
Toni Braxton - You're Making Me High / Let it Flow

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

DoubleHappys - Double B Side (The Others Way/ Anyone Else Would)

fits the rules if not the heading...

― bernard, Monday, 17 October 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I

that's a medley, i.e. on the b-side, the two tracks run together.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Beatles, "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" (see other thread on this)

and y'all are gonna hate me for this, but the songs were memorable:
Jewel, "You Were Meant for Me" / "These Foolish Games"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Mekons "Where Were You/"I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own)"

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

2Pac - "California Love / How Do U Want It," "I Get Around / Keep Ya Head Up"
Beastie Boys - "Hey Ladies" / "Shake Your Rump"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps the granddaddy of them all...

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/dp570_a.jpg

Great thread.

― white dolemite (White Dolemite), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

While I will concede that NOBODY bought it for the AA, both sides were fantastic:

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Get Over You/Move This Mountain

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

more recently, Outkast's Hey Ya/The Way You Move

― Jack L., Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Was that an AA in the US? Because they were two separate singles in most other markets...

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

"it has to have two songs equally credited on the front cover"

not all singles came in pic sleeves (pre-CD)...WHAT cover???

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Mekons - "Snow"/"Another One"

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Or at least equally credited in chart records/discographies and such, Rev, would do.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

if it doesn't have a sleeve, then A on one label (or injection mould) and AA on the other would be a big hint

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure Hey Ya/The Way You Move was AA in Canada at least. All the times I've seen it, it's been marked A both sides.

― Jack L., Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

KIT BRASH: this A/AA must be a Euro thing, 'cause (a) here in the US, I seldom see that (it's usually A/B), (b) several US singles have no A/B designation at all, and (c) the public (and the radio) usually decide(d) what a double-sided hit is (was) going to be. Producers (like Phil Spector) used to make the B-side intentionally terrible or unmemorable, so the deejays WOULDN'T flip it over...

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 20 October 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

here in the US, I seldom see that (it's usually A/B)

Then it's not a double A-side!

if there's no A or B on the label, then check the inscription in the run-out groove for an -A or -1.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Come out 2nite/How I Was Made

(altho technically 'Skillex')

― davidmc, Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that is the 'Skillex' EP AS CLEARLY LABELLED ON THE SPINE, not any kind of b/w c/w situation! Must try harder, 1/10.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

'High and Dry'/'Planet Telex' Radiohead

― MitchellStirling, Monday, 14 November 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Slits, The - Typical Girls / I Heard It Through The Grapevine

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Touch Too Much/Whole Lotta Rosie (live) - AC/DC

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and..

Hells Bells/Rock & Roll (ain't noise pollution) - AC/DC

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

hey sleeve, thank you for reminding me about "where were you" by the mekons!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/h.gagnon/Slits/pic/SlitsTypicalGirls45.jpg

I couldn't be much more dubious about those AccaDacca ones either

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 14 November 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

This is the correct answer. Backed with "High Blood Pressure," Ace records, 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FzqtmdaC0Ag

― Jazzbo, Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:23 (thirteen years ago)

still threadcoppin' seven years later: the first word of your second sentence contradicts your first sentence.

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:27 (thirteen years ago)

The Beat - Drowning/All Out To Get You

― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Sunday, 27 January 2013 06:55 (thirteen years ago)

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