Greatest Hits Redux

Greatest hits album by Cracker

Released

February 21, 2006

Recorded

December 2005

Genre

Alternative

Length

67:08

Label

Cooking Vinyl

Cracker chronology

Countrysides
(2003)

Greatest Hits Redux
(2006)

Get On With It: The Best of Cracker
(2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Greatest Hits Redux is a compilation album that was released on the Cooking Vinyl label the same day as another Cracker greatest hits compilation called Get On With It: The Best of Cracker released by Virgin Records. The reason for this album release on the same day is that the band was unhappy with their former label Virgin Records not allowing them to participate in the compilation project they were preparing, so they retaliated by re-recording a selection of their signature tunes and releasing this new album on the same day.^[2] In a similar fashion, the Redux versions of the songs undercut the price of the originals on iTunes, resulting in greater sales for the Redux versions.^[3] Nine of the 13 songs that appear here are also on the Virgin compilation.

Since these songs were re-recorded, there are some subtle differences scattered throughout such as changed lyrics or different instrument fills. Knowing this, a true fan could reasonably argue that this is in fact not a compilation, but a new studio recording, even though the songs had all been recorded and released prior to this album (except for "Something You Ain't Got", which would appear a few months later in the year on their Greenland release).^[4]

Track listing

"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
"I See the Light"
"Mr. Wrong"
"Low"
"Get Off This"
"Lonesome Johnny Blues"
"Euro-Trash Girl"
"Sweet Thistle Pie"
"Big Dipper"
"The World Is Mine"
"Duty Free"
"Ain't Gonna Suck Itself"
"Something You Ain't Got"

References

Cracker

David Lowery Johnny Hickman Bryan Howard CoCo Owens Thayer Sarrano Pistol Stoessel Davey Faragher Bruce Hughes Bob Rupe Brandy Wood Victor Krummenacher Sal Maida Phil Jones Michael Urbano Joey Peters David Lovering Johnny Hott Charlie Quintana Frank Funaro Kenny Margolis

Studio albums	Cracker (1992) Kerosene Hat (1993) The Golden Age (1996) Gentleman's Blues (1998) Forever (2002) Countrysides (2003) Greenland (2006) Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey (2009) Berkeley to Bakersfield (2014)

Singles/EP's	"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" (1992) "Tucson" (1993) "Low" (1993) "Get Off This" (1994) "Euro-Trash Girl" (1994) "I Hate My Generation" (1996) "Nothing To Believe In" (1996) "The Good Life" (1998) "The World Is Mine" (1998) "Shine" (2002) "Merry Christmas, Emily" (2002) "Something You Ain't Got" (2006) "Give Me One More Chance" (2006) "Everybody Gets One For Free" (2006)

Compilations	The Virgin Years (1995) Garage D'Or (2000) Hello, Cleveland! Live at the Metro (2002) O' Cracker Where Art Thou? (2003) Get On With It: The Best of Cracker (2006) Greatest Hits Redux (2006)

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