Jihen for the win. As much as I love solo Ringo, Jihen's b-sides are above and beyond. Ringo's b-sides are playful and experimental, so some work really well, and some not so much. Jihen, on the other hand, almost always has b-sides that on level, if not above and beyond (Variety???) album material. The only exception I have for Jihen would be Kao, which still tends to make a lovely piano ballad, ala Just Can't Help It.
Also, Ringo's last two solo singles, KYNK and AT have both had kind of iffy b-sides. SG ~Superficial Gossip~ was exciting and great on first listen, but there is just something about it that doesn't make me actually want to listen to it as a legit single track, probably all the hype about it serving as a preview for the album, makes it seem more like a preview than an actual song able to stand on its own.
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