Greatest Hits Redux is a compilation album that was released on the Cooking Vinyl label the same day as another Cracker

Cracker (band)

Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring founders/songwriters singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Euro-Trash Girl", and "Get Off This".Founders Lowery and Hickman...

 greatest hits compilation called Get On With It: The Best of Cracker released by Virgin Records

Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

. The reason for this album release on the same day is that the band was unhappy with their former label Virgin Records

Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

 not allowing them to participate in the compilation project they were preparing, so they retaliated by re-recording a selection of their signature tunes and releasing this new album on the same day. 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. Knowing this, a true fan could reasonably argue that this is in fact not a compilation, but a new studio recording, even though the songs had all been recorded and released prior to this album (except for "Something You Ain't Got", which would appear a few months later in the year on their Greenland

Greenland (album)

-Track listing:# "Something You Ain't Got"# "Maggie"# "Where Have Those Days Gone"# "Fluffy Lucy"# "The Riverside"# "Gimme One More Chance"# "I'm So Glad She Ain't Never Coming Back"# "Sidi Ifni"# "I Need Better Friends"# "Minotaur"# "Night Falls"...

release).

Track listing

1. "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
2. "I See the Light"
3. "Mr. Wrong"
4. "Low"
5. "Get Off This"
6. "Lonesome Johnny Blues"
7. "Euro-Trash Girl"
8. "Sweet Thistle Pie"
9. "Big Dipper"
10. "The World Is Mine"
11. "Duty Free"
12. "Ain't Gonna Suck Itself"
13. "Something You Ain't Got"