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from

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. The record, which represents the first best-of album by the Go-Go's, includes most of the hits and stand-out tracks from the band's first three

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s, 1981’s '' Beauty and the Beat'', 1982’s ''

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'', and 1984‘s ''

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'', only omitting three minor hit singles, " He's So Strange," "This Old Feeling" and " Yes or No". The collection does not include any new songs, except for a re-recording of the 1960s

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of " Cool Jerk" (the 'original' version of the cover was already on the Go-Go's second album, ''Vacation''), which was also released as the one single from the compilation, reaching #60 in the

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, in 1991, this way becoming the second Go-Go's song to ever enter the

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charts (the third and highest UK hit from the band would eventually be "

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''). A mint-green vinyl re-release of the album was released through

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in July 2020.

Track listing

Chart positions

Album

Singles

References

1990 greatest hits albums The Go-Go's albums I.R.S. Records compilation albums Albums produced by Martin Rushent Albums produced by Richard Gottehrer {{1990s-compilation-album-stub