The Greatest Hits (Cheap Trick album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Greatest Hits
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Cheap Trick


Released = 1991
Recorded = 1976 - 1990
Genre = Rock
Hard rock
Pop rock
New Wave
Power pop
Length = 52:33
109:55 (Japanese edition)
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Jack Douglas, Tom Werman, Cheap Trick, Roy Thomas Baker, Todd Rundgren, Richie Zito
(U.S. version)
Ian Taylor, George Martin, and Tony Platt
(Japanese edition only)
Reviews =
* Allmusic (rating|3|5) [http://wc01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifexqw5ldde link]
Last album = "Busted"
(1990)
This album = "The Greatest Hits"
(1991)
Next album = "Woke up with a Monster"
(1994)

"The Greatest Hits" is the first compilation album by Cheap Trick. It contains many of Cheap's Trick's popular songs, as well as a previously unreleased cover version of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour, recorder with Jon Brant originally for "The Doctor". 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. sales seven years after its release.

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

Track listing (1991 U.S. release)

*All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.
# "Magical Mystery Tour" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) - 4:08
# "Dream Police" – 3:49
# "Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley) - 3:07
# "Tonight It's You" (Mark Radice/Jon Brant/Rick Nielsen/Robin Zander) - 4:47
# "She's Tight" – 2:58
# "I Want You to Want Me [Live Version] " - 3:38
# "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
# "Ain't That a Shame" (Antoine Domino/Dave Bartholomew) - 5:10
# "Surrender" - 4:16
# "The Flame" (Bob Mitchell/Nick Graham) - 5:36
# "I Can't Take It" (Robin Zander) – 3:28
# "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Rick Nielsen/Robin Zander/Tom Petersson) - 3:45
# "Voices" – 4:22

Track listing (2003 international remastered re-release)

*All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.
# "Clock Strikes Ten" - 2:59
# "Dream Police" – 3:49
# "Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley) - 3:07
# "Tonight It's You" (Jon Brandt/Nielsen/Mark Radice/Robin Zander) - 4:47
# "She's Tight" – 2:58
# "I Want You to Want Me [Live Version] " - 3:38
# "If You Want My Love" – 3:36
# "Ain't That a Shame" (Antoine Domino/Dave Bartholomew) - 5:10
# "Surrender" - 4:16
# "The Flame" (Nick Graham/Robert Mitchell) - 5:36
# "I Can't Take It" (Robin Zander) – 3:28
# "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Rick Nielsen/Robin Zander/Tom Petersson) - 3:45
# "Voices" – 4:22
# "Magical Mystery Tour" (John Lennon/Paul 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". This extended version has gone out of print since the issue of the remastered edition in 2003.

Disc 1 ("Cheap" Side)

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

Disc 2 ("Trick" Side)

# "Magical Mystery Tour" (Lennon/McCartney) - 4:08
# "Dream Police" - 3:49
# "Don't Be Cruel" (Blackwell/Presley) - 3:07
# "Tonight It's You" (Radice/Brant/Nielsen/Zander) - 4:47
# "She's Tight" - 2:58
# "I Want You to Want Me [Live Version] " - 3:38
# "If You Want My Love" - 3:36
# "Ain't That a Shame" (Domino/Bartholomew) - 5:10
# "Surrender" - 4:16
# "The Flame" (Graham/Mitchell) - 5:36
# "I Can't Take It" (Zander) - 3:28
# "Can't Stop Fallin' into Love" (Nielsen/Zander/Petersson) - 3:45
# "Voices" - 4:22

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