''Greatest Hits Redux'' is a compilation album by the American rock band
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featuring re-recordings of previously released material.
The album was released on February 21, 2006 on the
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label, the same day their previous label
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issued ''Get On With It: The Best of Cracker'', which featured the original versions of many of the same songs, but was released without the band's permission or cooperation. In a similar fashion, the ''Redux'' versions of the songs undercut the price of the originals on
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, resulting in greater sales for the ''Redux'' versions. 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. The one new song, "Something You Ain't Got", would appear a few months later in the year on their ''
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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
2000 compilation albums
Cracker (band) compilation albums
Cooking Vinyl compilation albums
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