''Greatest Hits'' is a compilation album of
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alternative rock band
Catatonia
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's best known songs, mainly the singles, but also includes collaborations between Cerys Matthews with Space (on "
The Ballad of Tom Jones
"The Ballad of Tom Jones" is a song by English band Space and Cerys Matthews, lead singer of Welsh band Catatonia. Lead singer Tommy Scott described Tom Jones as "brilliant". The song became a highly successful radio single, and resulted in Sp ...
") and with Tom Jones himself (on "
Baby, It's Cold Outside
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film '' Neptune's Daughter''. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter ...
").
The album was released as a 1CD and 2CD limited edition. The second disc of the two CD edition included lesser known album only tracks and some B-Sides, where although 10 tracks are listed, two hidden tracks are included at the end; "All Girls Are Fly" and "Blues Song".
Despite the band having not releasing any new material since their splitting following their last album, ''
Paper Scissors Stone'', yet another compilation was released in 2006, ''
The Platinum Collection''.
Critical reaction
Joe Goodden, writing for the
BBC
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's Wales Music section, said: "Greatest Hits, a non-chronological run through their singles, is for the most part a cracking ride. 'Road Rage' and 'Mulder And Scully' sound as fresh today as they first did on the radio, and 'You've Got A Lot To Answer For' was a perfect realisation of the terrors of home pregnancy testing."
I review in ''entertainment.ie'' said: "this 15-track singles collection arrives as the perfect reminder of the band's all-too-brief time in the spotlight. Catatonia weren't a great band, exactly their sound was too generically indie for that. But they had two major assets: their ear for a winning melody and Matthews's genuine star quality, ..."
Dave Thompson, writing in ''
Allmusic
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'' said: "A sensibly titled 15-track epitaph to one of the most premature of all the Brit-pop bandwagon's many casualties, ''Greatest Hits'' rounds up each of Catatonia's major U.K. hits, alongside a clutch of well-chosen album cuts and, by way of completeness, the two duets that further established vocalist Cerys Matthews among the country's best-loved performers ... "
Track listing
;Disc 1
#"Mulder and Scully"
#"
The Ballad of Tom Jones
"The Ballad of Tom Jones" is a song by English band Space and Cerys Matthews, lead singer of Welsh band Catatonia. Lead singer Tommy Scott described Tom Jones as "brilliant". The song became a highly successful radio single, and resulted in Sp ...
" (Space & Cerys Matthews)
#"Strange Glue"
#"Road Rage"
#"Stone by Stone"
#"Londinium"
#"Game On"
#"Dead From the Waist Down"
#"You've Got a Lot to Answer For"
#"
Baby, It's Cold Outside
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film '' Neptune's Daughter''. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter ...
" (Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews)
#"Karaoke Queen"
#"Lost Cat"
#"I Am the Mob"
#"Sweet Catatonia"
#"Bleed"
;Disc 2 (Limited edition bonus disc)
#"Do You Believe in Me?" (B-Side)
#"The Mother of Misogyny"
#"Indigo Blind" (B-Side)
#"Godspeed"
#"Imaginary Friend"
#"Way Beyond Blue"
#"Dream On"
#"Whale"
#"Branding a Mountain" (B-Side)
#"Acapulco Gold" (B-Side, contains hidden tracks "All Girls Are Fly" and "Blues Song")
Certifications
References
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2002 greatest hits albums
Catatonia (band) compilation albums