Greatest Hits (Cardiacs album)

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 left in a similar incomplete state.)

Release
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.

Critical reception
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".

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.

The people who are in...or have once been in Cardiacs


 * Tim Smith
 * Jim Smith
 * Jon Poole
 * Bob Leith
 * Sarah Smith
 * William D. Drake
 * Tim Quy
 * Dominic Luckman
 * Christian Hayes
 * Mark Cawthra
 * Michael Pugh
 * Margurite Jonston
 * Peter Tagg
 * Colvin Mayers
 * Ralf Cade
 * Mr. Hiles
 * Graham Simmonds
 * The Consultant
 * Miss Swift

Photographers


 * Val Langmuir
 * Caroline and Lucy Cook
 * Steve Payne
 * Matt Anker
 * David Oliver
 * Marc Palmer
 * Simone Buddemeijer
 * Steve Randall
 * Dominic Search
 * Robin Francella
 * Des Berkensure
 * Loads more

"Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain"

Guest:
 * Tim Smith – guitar, keyboards, vocals
 * Jon Poole – guitar, vocals
 * Bob Leith – drums
 * Jim Smith – bass, vocals, engineering
 * Sarah Smith – saxophones, vocals