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Originally Posted by Villavic

I understand you mean those B sides not included in albums, don't you? I think they count, but to a lesser or different way.

Cause in my experience a B side is enough related to an album, even if it wasn't included on it. I didn't by the Rumours album in 1977. But we had the YMLF single at home because my older brother bought it. I remember I liked to play it, also side B, Gold Dust Woman. At that moment I didn't know the complete track list of the album, I was only 11 and I don't think I identified the album cover, but I read the name Rumours in the record, so I knew which album was this single from, both songs.

So anyone who bought the GYOW single could hear SS and think that it was a Rumours song, just reading the label in the 45 rpm record, and didn't buy the album. Or at least learned it belongs to the Rumours "universe", if they got the album later. Yes I suppose SS wasn't played much on the radio and I don't think it was on the charts in 1977, but it counts somehow.

Yes, I do know some B sides are on the album.

Sometimes they are not: Ricky, SS, Cool Water, or a live cut, etc.
But, SS will never in my mind be a part of the actual Rumours' album. I don't really like the studio version very much. I do think of it as part of The Dance. I think it's optimal in that moment in time.