Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Released22 February 2002
Recorded1985–2001
Length57:15
LabelAlphabet Business Concern
ProducerTim Smith
Cardiacs chronology
Cardiacs and Affectionate Friends
(2001)
Greatest Hits
(2002)
The Special Garage Concerts
(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[1] as it lacks many better-known songs including their biggest hit "Is This the Life".[2]

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.)

  1. ^ Phillips, Lance (2003). "The Cardiacs". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). London: Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-85828-457-6.
  2. ^ Sgrignoli, Marco (20 July 2022). "Cardiacs - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto". Ondarock [it] (in Italian). Retrieved 27 May 2023.