12 Golden Country Greats
by Ween

12 Golden Country Greats by Ween
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-07-16
Overall rank: 4,142nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 119 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (84th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (676th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,142nd)

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Ween bestography

12 Golden Country Greats is ranked 6th best out of 24 albums by Ween on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ween is The Mollusk which is ranked number 559 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,064.

Ween album bestography « Higher ranked (4,058th)
Pure Guava
This album (4,142nd)
12 Golden Country Greats
Lower ranked (7,790th) »
God Ween Satan - The Oneness

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12 Golden Country Greats track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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12 Golden Country Greats rankings

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Overall rank: 4,142nd | 1990s rank: 676th | 1996 rank: 84th

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.

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70/100
Their sound and humor doesn't completely translate to country, but the songs are generally more enjoyable than any contemporary country music.
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85/100
I know it's kind of a joke, but the music is really good. I actually like some of the more serious songs like I'm holding you and I don't want to leave you on the farm
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Even if it's a parody of Country music, it's more listenable than the top 40 country
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Ween have always been good at switching up styles within the same album, but on the single occasion that they buckled down and hammered out an album of tunes of the same genre, they really fucking hit it out of the park. Even with all the cringe-worthy mainstream country songs with overused chord progressions, Ween manages to make straight up country music stand out on one of the very few times that it ever has.
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