The Greatest Hits (Cheap Trick album) explained

The Greatest Hits
Type:greatest
Artist:Cheap Trick
Cover:cheaptrick_greatest.jpg
Released:October 1, 1991
Recorded:1976–1990
Length:52:33
109:55 (Japanese edition)
Label:Epic
Producer:US version:
Japanese edition only:
Prev Title:Busted
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:Woke Up with a Monster
Next Year:1994

The Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by Cheap Trick. It contains many of Cheap Trick's popular songs, as well as a previously unreleased cover version of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour", which according to the liner notes, was an outtake from the Lap of Luxury album. Though it peaked at only #174 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it remained a steady seller, and was certified platinum for one million U.S. shipments seven years after its release.[1]

Rendered obsolete by succeeding compilations that contain almost all of the songs in this album, it was nonetheless re-released in 2003, in a re-mastered edition with the addition of "Clock Strikes Ten".

Track listing (1991 U.S. release)

  1. "Magical Mystery Tour" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:08
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant, Mark Radice) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame [live version]" (Antoine Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Bob Mitchell, Nick Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Tom Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22

Track listing (2003 international remastered re-release)

  1. "Clock Strikes Ten [live version]" – 3:20
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Blackwell, Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Brandt, Nielsen, Radice, Zander) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame [live version]" (Domino, Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Mitchell, Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22
  14. "Magical Mystery Tour" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:08

Track listing (Japanese edition)

In Japan, this compilation was released as a double album consisting of two compact discs, one entitled "Cheap Side" and the other "Trick Side".[2] This extended version has gone out of print since the issue of the remastered edition in 2003.

Disc 1 ("Cheap" Side)

  1. "Hello There" – 1:41
  2. "On Top of the World" – 4:01
  3. "ELO Kiddies" – 3:41
  4. "Hot Love" – 2:30
  5. "Big Eyes" – 3:10
  6. "Clock Strikes Ten" – 2:59
  7. "California Man" (Roy Wood) – 3:44
  8. "Stop This Game" (Nielsen, Zander) – 3:57
  9. "I Know What I Want" – 4:29
  10. "Just Got Back" (Nielsen) – 2:05
  11. "The Doctor" – 4:03
  12. "High Roller" (Nielsen, Petersson, Zander) – 3:58
  13. "Gonna Raise Hell" – 9:20
  14. "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" (Terry Reid) – 4:35
  15. "Day Tripper" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:33

Disc 2 ("Trick" Side)

  1. "Magical Mystery Tour" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:08
  2. "Dream Police" – 3:49
  3. "Don't Be Cruel" (Blackwell, Presley) – 3:07
  4. "Tonight It's You" (Radice, Brant, Nielsen, Zander) – 4:47
  5. "She's Tight" – 2:58
  6. "I Want You to Want Me [live version]" – 3:38
  7. "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
  8. "Ain't That a Shame" (Domino, Bartholomew) – 5:10
  9. "Surrender" – 4:16
  10. "The Flame" (Mitchell, Graham) – 5:36
  11. "I Can't Take It" (Zander) – 3:28
  12. "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen, Zander, Petersson) – 3:45
  13. "Voices" – 4:22

Charts

Chart (1991)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] 170
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[4] 49

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RIAA — Gold & Platinum — Searchable Database. February 27, 2010.
  2. Web site: チープ・トリック/グレイテスト・ヒッツ - チープ・トリック - Yahoo! ミュージック. music.yahoo.co.jp. February 27, 2010.
  3. Web site: Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 3 December 1990. www.bubblingdownunder.com. December 3, 2021. December 7, 2021.
  4. Book: Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Oricon Entertainment. Roppongi, Tokyo. 2006. 4-87131-077-9. ja.

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