There are more than 60 tracks on Flotsam And Jetsam, which is a digital/streaming-only release and, it has to be said, more than just B-sides are included. Taking in bonus tracks, remixes and compilation-only recordings, the running order is not far off the many “remixes and rarities” Peter Gabriel bootlegs that I’ve been buying for many a decade. All those mythical early gems are present and correct (and, unlike the bootlegs, coming from official master tape sources), like Perspective (single version) and Teddy Bear, the two B-sides of 1978’s D.I.Y., as well as Shosholoza and Jetzt Kommt Die Flut (the German rendition of Here Comes The Flood) which backed up 1980’s Biko.
My personal favourites come from the height of Gabriel’s classic pop era, of course: A previously unreleased full version of Don’t Break This Rhythm (the B-side of Sledgehammer) and the sublime Curtains, from the B-side of Big Time. There’s the even more sublime Broad Curtains from the soundtrack to a 2004 Xbox game, Myst IV: Revelation, too.