B-Sides (Avril Lavigne album)

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B-Sides
Official CDr promo cover
Compilation album by Avril Lavigne
Released	June 4, 2002
Genre	Alternative rock pop-punk post-grunge pop rock
Length	63:18
Label	Arista
Producer	The Matrix
Avril Lavigne chronology
B-Sides (2002) Let Go (2002)

B-Sides, also known as Let Go: B-Sides, is a promotional album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne. It was published before her debut studio album Let Go by Arista Records in 2002. The compilation contains demo and original tracks not included on the final Let Go release. The songs were written and produced in 2001 under the management of Nettwerk in Los Angeles by Lavigne, her post manager Clifford Fabri, the production team the Matrix, and songwriter Cliff Magness^[1] after Arista sent her to Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk, in an attempt to fit her image and attitude with her voice.^[2]: 165 Though Lavigne would release Let Go through Arista, she continued with Nettwerk for her management.^[3]

• The demo version of "I Don't Give" is an explicit version in which Lavigne sings "I don't give a damn / I don't give a shit". The clean version, in which she sings "I don't give it up / I don't give a damn", appears as a B-side on some formats of Lavigne's debut single "Complicated" and on the American Wedding soundtrack.
• The demo version of "Get over It" is an explicit version in which Lavigne sings "Don't turn around, or you will get punched in the face". The clean version, in which she sings "Don't turn around, I'm sick and I'm tired of your face", appears as a B-side on some formats of Lavigne's second single "Sk8er Boi".
• Lavigne recorded two different songs called "Take Me Away": one on this album mainly titled (Pick Me Up) Take Me Away, and the other on Under My Skin (2004).
• "Falling into History" was sold to Brie Larson in 2005.
• Breaway was sold to Kelly Clarkson in 2004 for the 2004 film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and later on her second studio album of the same title name and in 2022 Lavigne re-recorded the song for the 20th anniversary of Let Go.
• "Falling Down" is featured in the soundtrack for the 2002 film Sweet Home Alabama.
• A different version of "Things I'll Never Say" made the tracklist of the final Let Go album.
• Despite the album Let Go being named after the song with the same title, it was not included on that album.
• Remixed versions of "Falling Down", the single version of "Get over It", "I Don't Give" and a re-recorded version of Breakaway were included in the 20th anniversary edition of Let Go.^[4][5]

All tracks produced by the Matrix.