Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Cardiacs
Released	2 April 2002
Recorded	1985–2001
Length	57:15
Label	Alphabet Business Concern
Producer	Tim Smith
Cardiacs chronology

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the English rock group Cardiacs, released on 2 April 2002.[1]

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 tracks are written by Tim Smith, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
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.	"Mare's 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"		Previously unreleased	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

References

"Greatest Hits by Cardiacs (Compilation, Progressive Rock): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 20 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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[1] "Greatest Hits by Cardiacs (Compilation, Progressive Rock): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 20 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)