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 as it lacks many better-known songs including their biggest hit "Is This the Life".
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 completed by different personnel.)
Release On 22 February 2002, the Alphabet Business Concern released Greatest Hits through CD, distributed by Plastic Head Distribution (PHD). The Cardiacs website announced its release on 2 April.
Critical reception 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".
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.
The people who are in...or have once been in Cardiacs
Tim Smith Jim Smith Jon Poole Bob Leith Sarah Smith William D. Drake Tim Quy Dominic Luckman Christian Hayes Mark Cawthra Michael Pugh Margurite Jonston Peter Tagg Colvin Mayers Ralf Cade Mr. Hiles Graham Simmonds The Consultant Miss Swift
Photographers
Val Langmuir Caroline and Lucy Cook Steve Payne Matt Anker David Oliver Marc Palmer Simone Buddemeijer Steve Randall Dominic Search Robin Francella Des Berkensure Loads more
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