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Originally Posted by sugarbasil
If it went the way A BEST 2 went...all the songs I hated off the last 3 albums. -_-
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HAHA. <3 This made me laugh so hard...
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Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU
Well, half of A BEST 2 was also featured on A COMPLETE, so I don't think she really cares if things overlap.
Also, A COMPLETE featured the main A-sides only, so she could still include the other songs on A BEST 3. Like Beautiful Fighters, fated, Decision, etc. Or even album tracks that definitely deserve to be on her BEST, like Marionette.
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I'd like to see A BEST 3 be made up of all the songs off albums that got PVs... like Marionette, JEWEL, and others.
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Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU
Don't be that way.
It all depends on what you consider an "A-side" or "B-side", since they don't actually exist anymore. I mean we don't flip around the CD anymore, do we.
In your definition, a B-side is a song that is only included on a single and not on an album. However, you could also define a B-side as a song that's not included in the title of the single.
So.. You were.../BALLAD = Double A-side. But in BLUE BIRD's case, BLUE BIRD is the A-side and Beautiful Fighters is the B-side.
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You're right, we don't flip over anything. So the standard definition of a B-side these days is any song included on a single but not promoted. 'Beautiful fighters' and 'decision' are A-Sides: both have PVs, and promoted in the CMs for the singles. The question boils down to whether 'Beautiful fighters' and 'Decision' were played on music channels across Japan... if they were, they are technically A-Sides, regardless of whether they were intended to be or not.
Songs like 'teens', 'Life', and 'SEVEN DAYS WAR' are true B-Sides. They have no PV, are not featured in promotional materials for the singles, and more commonly do not end up on records. (Though Ayumi did put RED LINE on RnRC...)
In the case of 'blossom', it is technically an a-side because it was promoted as such. It was included in the CM for MOON/blossom, and is featured in the title, and even if it didn't have an accompanying PV, those former two things establish it as an a-side.
It sounds weird, but it's really just a very obscure thing. I wish the idea of B-sides would drop already.