Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)
'Greatest Hits' is a compilation album by the English rock group Cardiacs, released in 2002.
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| Released | 2 April 2002[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1985–2001 | |||
| Genre | Art rock • progressive rock • post-punk | |||
| Length | 57:15 | |||
| Label | Alphabet Business Concern | |||
| Producer | Tim Smith | |||
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The album's title may be ironic, as the extent to which Greatest Hits is a "greatest hits" album (in the usual sense of the phrase) is debatable. It contains only two single a-sides ("Manhoo" and "Odd Even"), features few tracks from the earlier part of the band's career, and does not feature many of their better-known songs (including their biggest hit, "Is This the Life?"). In some ways, it can be seen as a follow up to the 1995 compilation album Sampler, with an arbitrary track list chosen by the band.
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.)
Track listing
All songs written by Tim Smith, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "There’s Good Cud" (from Guns, 1999) | 2:22 | |
| 2. | "Manhoo" (from Sing to God, 1996) | Jon Poole | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Buds and Spawn" (from On Land and in the Sea, 1989) | 6:40 | |
| 4. | "Core" (from Heaven Born and Ever Bright, 1992) | 2:32 | |
| 5. | "Fairy Mary Mag" (from Sing to God, 1996) | 3:09 | |
| 6. | "Odd Even" (from Sing to God, 1996) | 3:18 | |
| 7. | "She Is Hiding Behind the Shed" (from Heaven Born and Ever Bright, 1992) | 4:09 | |
| 8. | "The Breakfast Line" (from A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, 1988) | 4:55 | |
| 9. | "Mare’s Nest" (from On Land and in the Sea, 1989) | Smith, William D. Drake | 4:16 |
| 10. | "Wind and Rains Is Cold" (from Guns, 1999) | 3:20 | |
| 11. | "Faster Than Snakes with a Ball and a Chain" (previously unreleased, 2001) | 5:54 | |
| 12. | "Victory Egg" (from A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, 1988) | 3:04 | |
| 13. | "Dirty Boy" (from Sing to God, 1996) | 8:56 | |
| 14. | "Plane Plane Against the Grain" (from Big Ship, 1987) | 1:18 | |
| Total length: | 57:15 | ||