Why are so many CWCC songs from Ferment and Chrome?
The easy answer is that more people decided to cover these songs. Only five songs from the first two albums weren’t picked. Most of the people participating have been fans of the band for a long time, so there’s a good chance that they picked the songs most familiar to them, the ones they’ve heard literally hundreds of times. Newer songs haven’t been around long enough to attain that level of familiarity. It could also be that, in some ways, the older songs are slightly less complex and therefore easier to play or sing. Although there’s plenty of tricky guitar and vocal work going on in early songs, most people would probably agree that “Here Comes the Fat Controller” has more stuff to figure out than a song such as “Flower to Hide.” Another answer: for the early CWCC discs, we picked songs that, in our opinion, produced the best results. These songs tended to be the more upbeat, less complicated ones, which are found in abundance on the first few albums. You’ll also find many b-sides
