Greatest Hits | ||||
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Released | 22 February 2002 | |||
Recorded | 1985–2001 | |||
Length | 57:15 | |||
Label | Alphabet Business Concern | |||
Producer | Tim Smith | |||
Cardiacs chronology | ||||
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Greatest Hits (or Cardiacs Greatest Hits) is a compilation album by the English rock band Cardiacs, released on 22 February 2002.
The album is amusingly titled[1] as it lacks many better-known songs including their biggest hit "Is This the Life".[2]
Greatest Hits features one new and otherwise unavailable track, called "Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain". This is described as having been taken from the then-forthcoming and as-yet untitled album that was to follow Greatest Hits, the creation of which has evidently been abandoned by the band (not to be mistaken for LSD, a later album left in a similar incomplete state.)
On 22 February 2002,[3] the Alphabet Business Concern released Greatest Hits through CD, distributed by Plastic Head Distribution (PHD).[4] The Cardiacs website announced its release on 2 April.[5]
In a retrospective review of On Land and in the Sea (1989), Nick Reed of The Quietus highlighted the Greatest Hits track "Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain" as "excellent".[6]
All tracks are written by Tim Smith, except where noted
No. | Title | From the album | Length |
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1. | "There's Good Cud" | Guns 1999 | 2:22 |
2. | "Manhoo" (Jon Poole) | Sing to God (part one) 1995 | 3:22 |
3. | "Buds and Spawn" | On Land and in the Sea 1989 | 6:40 |
4. | "Core" | Heaven Born and Ever Bright 1991 | 2:32 |
5. | "Fairy Mary Mag" | Sing to God (part one) 1995 | 3:09 |
6. | "Odd Even" | Sing to God (part two) 1995 | 3:18 |
7. | "She Is Hiding Behind the Shed" | Heaven Born and Ever Bright 1991 | 4:09 |
8. | "The Breakfast Line" | A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 1988 | 4:55 |
9. | "Mares Nest" (William D. Drake, Smith) | On Land and in the Sea 1989 | 4:16 |
10. | "Wind and Rains Is Cold" | Guns 1999 | 3:20 |
11. | "Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain" | The forthcoming album with no title yet 2001 | 5:54 |
12. | "Victory Egg" | A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 1988 | 3:04 |
13. | "Dirty Boy" | Sing to God (part two) 1995 | 8:56 |
14. | "Plane Plane Against the Grain" | Songs for Ships and Irons 1988 | 1:18 |
Total length: | 57:15 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.[7]
The people who are in...or have once been in Cardiacs
Photographers
"Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain"[8]
Guest: