The "Oog" that yr friend is referring to is called "Blowjob", which was the original title of the song "Mildred Pierce" - taken from a Raymond Pettibon painting. They probably did release it as a bootleg under many different titles but "Blowjob" is the most common version of it. If you find the bootleg, it's pretty cool and has a picture of Cher and David Geffen on the cover.

Yes, the tracks on disc two are the ones your co-worker is talking about.

Goo is my absolute favorite album out of all the bands I am a fan of, my "desert island" album. I just bought the disc set yesterday, and have yet to do an A/B comparison of the sound quality. Some of the 8 tack demos where available on the singles (Kool Thing, Disapearer) and I do remember seeing Blowjob out there, but didn't get it for some reason. The 8 track demos where bootlegs prior to this, so most of the copies floating around out there definitely had worse sound quality. The liner notes are ok. And the audio from Interview Flexi is interesting, more artsy than informative.

I was really hoping for something more. After spending a day with this reissue, it seemed to me that the record industry trying to get creative and has resorted to trying to sell the same music to us diehard fans, since most of the music out there is sucking or the good stuff is just hard to discover. They are thinking "lets 're-master' it and then put the crapy leftover out-takes on it, make it two CDs long so it has to sell for around $25." There is in insert in the CD for other Deluxe Edition Series by other artists under the name Universal Chronicles at www.universalchronicles.com . Well, it worked, and I was suckered into making this purchase. I am a big fan of this album, so I probably would have purchased it anyway.

I would have loved to see more technical liner notes, interviews with the band and the engineers (maybe available online as MP3s that only purchasers of the CD could have access to as I have seen on some other recent releases). I did find this link from the site in the News section that was put up with the reissue was released that does give some insight into the re-mastering process: www.sonicyouthmedia.com/alt-ma...op.html After reading this, I does appear that this entire re-mastering process was pretty arduous. Lee, Steve, and engineer Aaron Mullan worked on the project, digging through tape vaults and remixing some of the b side tracks. This band is so rich with technical details about their guitars and tunings, all of which is available on their site at www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/...main.html . It would have been nice to get a all Goo-related section of the site for the release of this CD, along with audio from interviews done around that time if it was available. After some digging around I did find an interview with Lee related to the Goo reissue here: www.pitchforkmedia.com/interv...outh-05 . I want the audio of this interview. I am expecting a more interactive experience.

My point is, the bar has been raised for music purchases, and it would have been easy to make my experience just a little bit better by including these details. I do appreciate the hard work done by Lee, Steve, and Aaron Mullan for this project. But if this is not your favorite SY album and you already have the original, I suggest that you skip this re-issue.