I'm still trying to figure out what a goooge is. Apparently something to do with Alice Cooper.

What immediately came to mind when you mentioned little known classics, Bri, were the Wheedle's Groove reissues, a collection of rare and dismissed 45s compiled and reissued a few years ago, as well as similar efforts from the Numero Group, my knowledge of which is directly credited to Derek, who bought me a series of these for my birthday a few years back.

But a direct reissue example, again courtesy Deeman's patronage, would be Opa's Back Home, some jazz fusion from the mid 70s. Surely there are others as well. All are very different from the 'take an album from 20 years ago and sell it again with a few lesser versions tacked onto the end' reissue.

Mike your comments echo my reaction to the Nevermind reissue, some of which I listened to on Rdio recently, and contains similarly underwhelming 'additions'. Tried playing the alt-take of Lithium and stopped it halfway through to return to the original. Which is probably what God, and certainly Kurt, intended.