Besides is the final release from 90's alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Sugar. As the title suggests, it collected the various B-sides from their previously released singles. The album also contained live and remixed versions of existing tracks from the band's two full albums and one EP, as well as several studio and live versions of tracks that had been unavailable on any of their previous albums.

The CD also included a Quicktime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

 video for the single "Gee Angel", although this was not advertised on the CD packaging.

Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Mould except where indicated.

1. "Needle Hits E" – 3:21
2. "If I Can't Change Your Mind" (Solo Mix) – 3:20
3. "Try Again" – 4:42
4. "Where Diamonds Are Halos" (Barbe) – 4:17
5. "Armenia City in the Sky" (Keene) – 3:26
6. "Clownmaster" – 3:20
7. "Anyone" (Barbe) – 2:43
8. "JC Auto" (live) – 6:02
9. "Believe What You're Saying" (Campfire Mix) – 3:52
10. "Mind Is an Island" – 3:39
11. "Frustration" (Barbe) – 5:20
12. "Going Home" – 2:41
13. "In the Eyes of My Friends" (Barbe) – 3:35
14. "And You Tell Me" – 5:03
15. "After All the Roads Have Led to Nowhere" – 3:21
16. "Explode and Make Up" – 4:41
17. "The Slim" – 6:26

The Joke Is Always on Us, Sometimes.

The first 25,000 copies of Besides were packaged with a bonus disc titled The Joke Is Always on Us, Sometimes. The disc is a live Sugar concert from November 2, 1994, at First Avenue club in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Track listing

1. "Gift"
2. "Company Book"
3. "Hoover Dam"
4. "After All The Roads Have Led To Nowhere"
5. "Where Diamonds Are Halos"
6. "Slick"
7. "Going Home"
8. "Running Out Of Time"
9. "Frustration"
10. "Changes"
11. "Can't Help You Anymore"
12. "Helpless"
13. "If I Can't Change Your Mind"
14. "In The Eyes Of My Friends"
15. "Clownmaster"
16. "Gee Angel"
17. "Explode And Make Up"
18. "The Slim"