Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)
{{Short description|2002 compilation album by Cardiacs}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Greatest Hits
| type = greatest
| artist = Cardiacs
| cover = Cardiacs Greatest Hits.png
| alt =
| released = 22 February 2002
| recorded = 1985–2001
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 57:15
| label = Alphabet Business Concern
| producer = Tim Smith
| prev_title = Cardiacs and Affectionate Friends
| prev_year = 2001
| next_title = The Special Garage Concerts
| next_year = 2005
}}
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{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Lance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |publisher=Rough Guides |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85828-457-6 |editor-last=Buckley |editor-first=Peter |edition=3rd |location=London |chapter=The Cardiacs}} as it lacks many better-known songs including their biggest hit "Is This the Life".{{Cite web |last=Sgrignoli |first=Marco |date=20 July 2022 |title=Cardiacs - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto |url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/cardiacs.htm |access-date=27 May 2023 |website={{interlanguage link|Ondarock|it}} |language=it}}
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.)
Release
On 22 February 2002,{{Cite web |date= |title=Greatest Hits [Explicit] by Cardiacs |url=https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09635FNZR |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=27 May 2023 |publisher=Alphabet Business Concern |language=en |via=Amazon Music}} the Alphabet Business Concern released Greatest Hits through CD, distributed by Plastic Head Distribution (PHD).{{Cite web |title=Greatest Hits |url=http://www.cardiacs.com/greatesthits.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020416192156/http://www.cardiacs.com:80/greatesthits.html |archive-date=16 April 2002 |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=The Consultant's Memorabilia Collection |publisher=The Cardiacs}} The Cardiacs website announced its release on 2 April.{{Cite web |date=2 April 2002 |title=News |url=http://www.cardiacs.com/news.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020408222319/http://www.cardiacs.com:80/news.html |archive-date=8 April 2002 |access-date=25 May 2023 |website=The Cardiacs}}
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".{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Nick |date=20 May 2014 |title=Once In A Lifetime: On Land And In The Sea By Cardiacs Revisited |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/15286-cardiacs-on-land-and-in-the-sea-review |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=The Quietus}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Tim Smith, except where noted
| extra_column = From the album
| title1 = There's Good Cud
| extra1 = Guns 1999
| length1 = 2:22
| title2 = Manhoo
| length2 = 3:22
| extra2 = Sing to God (part one) 1995
| note2 = Jon Poole
| title3 = Buds and Spawn
| length3 = 6:40
| extra3 = On Land and in the Sea 1989
| title4 = Core
| extra4 = Heaven Born and Ever Bright 1991
| length4 = 2:32
| title5 = Fairy Mary Mag
| length5 = 3:09
| extra5 = Sing to God (part one) 1995
| title6 = Odd Even
| length6 = 3:18
| extra6 = Sing to God (part two) 1995
| title7 = She Is Hiding Behind the Shed
| length7 = 4:09
| extra7 = Heaven Born and Ever Bright 1991
| title8 = The Breakfast Line
| length8 = 4:55
| extra8 = A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 1988
| title9 = Mares Nest
| length9 = 4:16
| extra9 = On Land and in the Sea 1989
| note9 = William D. Drake, Smith
| title10 = Wind and Rains Is Cold
| length10 = 3:20
| extra10 = Guns 1999
| title11 = Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain
| length11 = 5:54
| extra11 = The forthcoming album with no title yet 2001
| title12 = Victory Egg
| length12 = 3:04
| extra12 = A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 1988
| title13 = Dirty Boy
| length13 = 8:56
| extra13 = Sing to God (part two) 1995
| title14 = Plane Plane Against the Grain
| length14 = 1:18
| extra14 = Songs for Ships and Irons 1988
| total_length = 57:15
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.{{cite AV media notes |title=Greatest Hits |type=liner notes |others=Cardiacs |publisher=Alphabet Business Concern|year=2001 |id=ALPH CD029}}
The people who are in...or have once been in Cardiacs
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- 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
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Photographers
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- 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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Notes
{{Notelist}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs master|2156191}}
{{Cardiacs}}
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