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Is there a reason the 12GCG deluxe is so much better than the C&C one?

I’m not saying the Chocolate And Cheese deluxe was bad… we got tons of unreleased outtakes, many of which had never even been heard of in discussions of rarities. But looking at this new deluxe edition of 12 Golden Country Greats… we got demos of the entire album (plus demos for the songs that didn’t make the album too), tons of outtakes, and the two b-sides from the album’s singles as well as a soundtrack song from the era. And it’s not vinyl-only either!

The Chocolate & Cheese deluxe didn’t even include the b-sides from the era that were actually released on the physical singles (but haven’t made their way to streaming) like Vallejo, There’s A Pig, Bakersfield, etc, and many well-known outtakes of the era were excluded as well. The argument I heard many make at the time was “well most hardcore fans will have all those anyways, best to include the stuff that even they don’t have”, but this new deluxe seems to blow that argument out of the water.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, I’m glad we’re getting more unreleased Ween, and I did thoroughly enjoy all the unheard songs bon the C&C deluxe, but I can’t be the only one that feels there was a lot that was unnecessarily left out of it?

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