AA better than A? You tell me.

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As the new Spice Girls single is decidedly lacklustre, I was pleased to see that it was a double A sided single. Though 'Holler' (lousy name) is the A side, there is that quaint invention the AA side. So I wondered, why would you make a track an AA side instead of the A side - unless the A side was better.

Sure there are some classic B-sides out there, but are there any AA sides which are better than the A side?

This question appears to belie a history in mathematics, doesn't it?

― Peter Baran, Tuesday, 12 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

It's just a marketing exercise. The "A" side is presumably the one they're pushing (and the one they've shot a video for), but they're hoping also to pick up a lot of additional radio play (and sales) with the "AA" side. If it was classified "B" it would just be ignored.

― David, Tuesday, 12 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

The tendency is for bands to pull this trick when it's 3rd-single-off- album time, and shove a new track (i.e. a B Side) on the AA side. Or just, as in the last time the Spicies tried it, put two more-or-less duff album tracks on a single together to save the hassle of doing another B-Side of the caliber of "Spice Invaders".

As an aside, that single really is apalling.

Which bunch of indie arses was it who did a triple-A-side? I'll just bet it was Dodgy.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Yes, Tom, IIRC it was Dodgy who released a triple A-side, and what a horrendously, unspeakably "wacky" gesture it was, even for them ...

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 13 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Ah, but I remember Salad doing the triple-a first!

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 25 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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