Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)

'Greatest Hits' is a compilation album by the English rock group Cardiacs, released in 2002.

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 tracklist chosen by the band.

Greatest Hits features one new and otherwise unavailable track, called "Faster Than Snakes With A Ball And A Chain". is exclusive to this album. This is described as having been taken from the then-forthcoming and as-yet untitled album which was to follow Greatest Hits (presumably the "lost" album which was abandoned following a hard disc crash in Cardiacs' studio, and which would have been replaced by the similarly incomplete and unreleased LSD album in the late 2000s).

Track listing

1. "There's Good Cud"
2. "Manhoo"
3. "Buds And Spawn"
4. "Core"
5. "Fairy Mary Mag"
6. "Odd Even"
7. "She Is Hiding Behind The Shed"
8. "The Breakfast Line"
9. "Mares Nest"
10. "Wind And Rains Is Cold"
11. "Faster Than Snakes With A Ball And A Chain"
12. "Victory Egg"
13. "Dirty Boy"
14. "Plane Plane Against The Grain"