What is B-Sides?
B-Sides was to be the companion disc to A-Sides; a collection of live tracks, alternate takes, soundtrack offerings and other non-album tracks for the dedicated Soundgarden fan or collector. “We have a couple of dozen songs that were never available on a Soundgarden album; they were always released as B-Sides in European, Australian or Japanese singles packages, or on movie soundtracks. So we want to put them together in an album format, and I think our fans would love that. That is not a cynical thing to do, that is the best tip of the hat to fans: rather than having to go out and buy the two dozen different singles or cassettes or CDs on which these tracks appeared, they can buy one album and have them altogether. You’d have to be a pretty insane collector to pick up all those little things from international releases and movie soundtracks and I think, as a fan, I would love to be able to have all those songs in my collection without having to hunt down all the various obscure releas
