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The Greatest Hits (Cheap Trick album)

{{Infobox album

| name = The Greatest Hits

| type = greatest

| artist = Cheap Trick

| cover = cheaptrick_greatest.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1, 1991

| recorded = 1976–1990

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Rock|hard rock|pop rock|new wave|power pop}}

| length = 52:33
109:55 (Japanese edition)

| label = Epic

| producer = US version:
{{hlist|Jack Douglas|Tom Werman|Cheap Trick|Roy Thomas Baker|Todd Rundgren|Richie Zito}}Japanese edition only:
{{hlist|Ian Taylor|George Martin|Tony Platt}}

| prev_title = Busted

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Woke Up with a Monster

| next_year = 1994

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r3738|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

|rev2 = Select

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Putterford|first=Mark|date=December 1991|title=Reviews: Re-issues - Sound Bites|magazine=Select|page=90}}

}}

The Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by Cheap Trick. It contains many of Cheap Trick's popular songs, as well as a previously unreleased cover version of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour", which according to the liner notes, was an outtake from the Lap of Luxury album. Though it peaked at only #174 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it remained a steady seller, and was certified platinum for one million U.S. shipments seven years after its release.{{cite web |url= https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Cheap_Trick&title=Greatest%20Hits&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50|title= RIAA — Gold & Platinum — Searchable Database|accessdate= February 27, 2010}}

Rendered obsolete by succeeding compilations that contain almost all of the songs in this album, it was nonetheless re-released in 2003, in a re-mastered edition with the addition of "Clock Strikes Ten".

Track listing (1991 U.S. release)

  1. "Magical Mystery Tour" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:08
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant, Mark Radice) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame [live version]" (Antoine Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Bob Mitchell, Nick Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Tom Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22

Track listing (2003 international remastered re-release)

  1. "Clock Strikes Ten [live version]" – 3:20
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Blackwell, Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Brandt, Nielsen, Radice, Zander) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame [live version]" (Domino, Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Mitchell, Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22
  14. "Magical Mystery Tour" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:08

Track listing (Japanese edition)

In Japan, this compilation was released as a double album consisting of two compact discs, one entitled "Cheap Side" and the other "Trick Side".{{cite web |url= http://music.yahoo.co.jp/record/dtl/LAA001676/|title= チープ・トリック/グレイテスト・ヒッツ - チープ・トリック - Yahoo! ミュージック|work= music.yahoo.co.jp|accessdate= February 27, 2010}} This extended version has gone out of print since the issue of the remastered edition in 2003.

=Disc 1 ("Cheap" Side)=

  1. "Hello There" – 1:41
  2. "On Top of the World" – 4:01
  3. "ELO Kiddies" – 3:41
  4. "Hot Love" – 2:30
  5. "Big Eyes" – 3:10
  6. "Clock Strikes Ten" – 2:59
  7. "California Man" (Roy Wood) – 3:44
  8. "Stop This Game" (Nielsen, Zander) – 3:57
  9. "I Know What I Want" – 4:29
  10. "Just Got Back" (Nielsen) – 2:05
  11. "The Doctor" – 4:03
  12. "High Roller" (Nielsen, Petersson, Zander) – 3:58
  13. "Gonna Raise Hell" – 9:20
  14. "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" (Terry Reid) – 4:35
  15. "Day Tripper" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:33

=Disc 2 ("Trick" Side)=

  1. "Magical Mystery Tour" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:08
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Blackwell, Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Radice, Brant, Nielsen, Zander) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame" (Domino, Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Mitchell, Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22

Charts

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
scope="col"| Chart (1991)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"|Australian Albums (ARIA){{cite web|url=https://www.bubblingdownunder.com/2021/12/week-commencing-3-december-1990.html|title=Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 3 December 1990|website=www.bubblingdownunder.com|date=December 3, 2021|access-date=December 7, 2021}}

|align="center"|170

scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon){{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}

| align="center"| 49

{{album chart|Billboard200|174|artist=Cheap Trick|rowheader=true|access-date=July 10, 2024}}

Certifications

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References

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Category:1991 greatest hits albums

Category:Albums produced by Todd Rundgren

Category:Albums produced by Jack Douglas (record producer)

Category:Albums produced by Roy Thomas Baker

Category:Albums produced by Tony Platt

Category:Cheap Trick compilation albums