My Heart Will Go On (The B-Side)
A Titanic Love Story Told Through Rock’s Hidden Tracks
They met where most love stories don’t — just off to the side. Not centre stage. Not under the spotlight. Somewhere between Side A and Side B, where the deep cuts live.
He believed the best songs were the ones you had to find. She liked a good chorus, something familiar, something safe. They locked eyes as the ship pulled away — the band tuning up below deck, far from the grand ballroom.
This wasn’t a love story meant to top the charts. This was a B-side romance.
The Band Played On (And No One Requested These Songs)
As the ship sailed, the music grew stranger, braver, more emotional. These weren’t songs built for radio rotation or greatest-hits compilations. They were confessions. Experiments. Cracks in the armour.
Love, like B-sides, doesn’t announce itself loudly. It sneaks in when you’re not looking.
Below deck, the band struck up something heavier.
1. Black Sabbath – “Laguna Sunrise”
A rare moment of stillness from a band known for doom.
Soft, reflective, almost fragile — like watching the ocean at dusk and realising you’re too far out to turn back.
This is the moment they lean on the railing together. No words. Just the sea. Just the feeling.
When the Iceberg Isn’t Obvious
The thing about icebergs is you never see the real danger coming. Sometimes it looks like success. Sometimes it sounds like a hit single.
B-sides don’t survive because they’re easy. They survive because someone cared enough to listen.
The water is getting colder now.
2. The Smiths – “Jeane”
Tender, awkward, painfully human. A song about wanting something you don’t quite know how to hold.
This is love whispered, not shouted. The kind of affection that never gets its moment in the spotlight — but lasts longer in memory.
Love Comes Tumbling (Literally)
The ship begins to tilt.
Reality sets in.
Some songs float.
Some sink.
The difference?
Not quality — context.
3. U2 – “Love Comes Tumbling”
Hopeful, idealistic, and quietly heartbreaking. Love crashing into the real world, ideals slipping beneath the surface.
This is the point where they realise: not every beautiful thing gets saved.
The Cold Water Moment
The lights flicker.
The band keeps playing.
Not for applause.
Not for legacy.
Just because someone needs to hear it.
4. The Cure – “The Exploding Boy”
Urgent, emotional, bursting with unspoken feeling.
Love that burns fast and bright — fully aware it may not last the night. This isn’t a slow dance. It’s a last one.
The ocean doesn’t care about chart positions. It takes everything equally. But some songs — like some loves — refuse to disappear.
5. Joy Division – “Atmosphere”
Sparse. Haunting. Eternal. The sound of the ship finally going quiet.
No drama. No explosion.
Just the echo of something that mattered.
Why B-Sides Make Better Love Stories
B-sides were never meant to survive alone.
Yet here they are — still played, still loved, still passed between listeners like secrets. They don’t beg for attention. They don’t promise forever.
They simply exist…and sometimes, that’s enough.
So this February, forget the obvious love songs. Forget the grand gestures. Give me the tracks that went down with the ship — playing on until the very end.
Because somewhere, just off to the side of the record,
love is still spinning.
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