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 as it lacks many better-known songs including their biggest hit "Is This the Life".
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 completed by different personnel.)
On 22 February 2002, the Alphabet Business Concern released Greatest Hits through CD, distributed by Plastic Head Distribution (PHD). The Cardiacs website announced its release on 2 April.
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".
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.
The people who are in...or have once been in Cardiacs
Photographers