B‑side collections the world never expected: Sugababes — 'The Complete Bs'

Only a small number of acts are well known for their high quality b‑sides. These are acts who treated fans to secret gems hidden away on CD singles and, with the advent of the digital bundle, chose to show those fans a whole new side to their music through adven­tur­ous forays into new musical ter­rit­or­ies via numerous bonus tracks. For these acts the b‑side is not a failed a‑side or a song not good enough to go on an album. It is an art form. 

The Sugababes, obviously, are not one of those acts.

Last month a col­lec­tion called 'The Complete Bs' appeared online without fanfare. The seven-disc download (?!) features precisely one hundred tracks that were bundled with Sugababes a‑sides during the Island years. Most of the b‑side songs are awful,  the majority of the remixes really take the major label will-this-do usual suspects biscuit, and the handful of cover versions touches on the sublime ('I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor') but usually scrapes the barrel of Live Lounge ridicu­lous­ness ('Come Together', Hard-Fi's 'Living For The Weekend', 'Hey There Delilah').

Here's a good one — 'Someone In My Bed'.