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Beside
is a preposition that means 'next to', 'close to' or 'by the side of', 'at the side of'.
Besides
is a preposition that means 'in addition to' or 'apart from'.
Besides
is also an adverb that means 'in addition', 'also'.

B-side
in recorded music, the term B-side refer to one side of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The term have come to refer to the songs conventionally placed being the "flipside" and secondary in importance.

The terms came into popular use with the advent of 45 rpm vinyl records in the early 1950s. It became conventional to release "singles" containing two songs, one on each side of the record. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side and which would be a B-side.

As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. Generally, the song on the A-side was the song that the record company wanted radio stations to play. By the early 1990s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, instrumental versions or simply inferior recordings were placed.

The term B-side is still frequently used to refer to the "bonus" tracks or "coupling" tracks on a CD single, and a very few vinyl singles are still released.

On a few occasions, the B-side became the more popular song. This was usually because a DJ preferred the B-side to its A-side and played it instead. Then the B-side would in a sense become the A-side, by virtue of being the preferred side (See Example:* Deee -Lite - What Is Love?/Groove Is In The Heart).



That definitely proves the flip side of a single does not necessarily contain B-side material.

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