Bands cannot always be trusted to make the correct decision. They’re artistes, you see, and artistes sometimes have wonky temperaments and make baffling choices that the rest of us mere mortals shake our heads at. This is especially obvious when you cast an eye over the number of would-be classic songs that never quite got the exposure they deserved. Sometimes they languished away as a B-side or got put on a shelf and eventually surfaced as an extra on a reissue or never even got an official release at all, only heard via a leaked bootleg. This is a tale as old as time: back in the Paleolithic Era, there was probably a caveman refusing to stick the painting everyone knew was his best one on a wall because, like I said, artistes. Here’s ten songs from the 90s that found their way out into the wild in one way or another but really deserved to take pride of place on an album proper:
