Greatest Hit...And More

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Greatest Hit...And More
Greatest Hit...And More cover
Greatest hits by Reel Big Fish
Released November 21st, 2006
Recorded 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005
Genre Ska Punk
Professional reviews
Reel Big Fish chronology
Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album
(2006)
Greatest Hit...And More
(2006)
Duet All Night Long
(With Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer)
(2007)


Greatest Hit...And More is a greatest hits album released by Jive Records. After Reel Big Fish was dropped from the label (much to the pleasure of the band) Jive Records released this album. Jive owns all of Reel Big Fish's music excluding their live album and Everything Sucks, meaning Reel Big Fish could do nothing about its release.

Reel Big Fish's live album was released only 3 months prior to Greatest Hit...And More and the band has said that Jive Records only released this CD to try and detract sales from their live album and it does not support the band themselves.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sell Out" – 3:47
  2. "Take On Me" – 3:02
  3. "She's Famous Now" – 3:05
  4. "Don't Start A Band" – 3:18
  5. "Cheer Up" – 2:42
  6. "The Set Up (You Need This)" – 4:21
  7. "Beer" – 3:30
  8. "I Want Your Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend Too" – 2:52
  9. "Your Guts (I Hate 'Em)" – 2:07
  10. "Ban The Tube Top" – 3:10
  11. "She Has A Girlfriend Now" – 3:05
  12. "Thank You For Not Moshing" – 2:41
  13. "Everything Sucks" – 2:40
  14. "Suckers" – 3:57
  15. "The Fire" - 3:05
  16. "Where Have You Been?" - 3:59
  17. "Trendy" - 2:23
  18. "Give It To Me" - 3:14
  19. "One Hit Wonderful" - 4:19

[edit] Band's Reaction

When word spread of this album being released, the members of Reel Big Fish were angered and believed Jive was trying to unfairly make money from their band. Frontman Aaron Barrett even discouraged fans from buying the album, as all the tracks were in-studio tracks from previous albums.

On Myspace, Aaron Barrett posted this bulletin:

Hey friends!
So Jive records (our former label) is putting out an RBF greatest hits CD because they see how well our live album is doing and they pretty much just want to screw us any way they can!
they see that there's still money to be made from the Reel Big Fish so they are trying to get a last little piece!
There's really nothing we can do to stop them since they own ALL our previous recordings!
Anyway, tell all your friends NOT to buy the new greatest hit CD, it's really not that cool, it's just stuff from our 4 studio albums that you ALREADY have (you do have all the RBF albums right!?)!!
and if you do decide to pick it up, we still love ya, as long as people are enjoying our music in some way or another ya know!? We're just glad to have people listening!
thx for supporting RBF! you guys rule!

In response, many fans discouraged other fans from buying the album as well and the album was given unusually low ratings on iTunes.

About a month after the CD's release, Barrett released this statement:

So Jive just sent us a box of the "Greatest Hit" album (how nice of them)and i couldn't resist popping it in the old CD player and checking it out. To my absolute horror i realised that they did a really awful re-mastering job and made all the music sound like CRAP!! it sounds like somebody went in and cranked up the Bass obnoxiously loud and then did the same with the high end. Now i'm not a huge fan of how our old albums sound but over the years i have learned to love them (lol) but this is rediculous! Jive continues to screw us every chance they get! I'm sure most people wouldn't notice but i do and it pisses me off!! haha
Reel Big Fish
Aaron Barrett | Scott Klopfenstein | Matt Wong | Dan Regan | Ryland Steen | John Christianson
Releases
Everything Sucks | Turn the Radio Off | Teen Beef | Keep Your Receipt EP | Why Do They Rock So Hard? | Favorite Noise | Cheer Up! | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy | Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album | Greatest Hit...And More | Duet All Night Long w/ Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer | Blank CD | You're All In This Together
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