Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post originated in my 45 B-side appreciation series The Other Side Of The Hit, in this case spreadin' the ol' appreciation to "Take It Or Leave It" by the Barbarians.
Other installments of The Other Side Of The Hit (B-Side Appreciation) have cast the Boppin' spotlight on flips by the Go-Go's, the Ramones, Yoko Ono, and the Monkees. The Barbarians entry was also considered for inclusion in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but is not currently a part of that book. On the other hand (or other side), both the Monkees' B-side appreciation bit ("The Girl I Knew Somewhere") and Yoko Ono's ("Kiss Kiss Kiss") will be in the book, as will a Beatles B-side and both sides of a Buddy Holly 45, though neither of those pieces was part of The Other Side Of The Hit.
The groove less traveled. I'm sure I'll return to The Other Side Of The Hit for further B-side appreciations. For now, a B-side by a 1960s Boston band called the Barbarians provides the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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