Greatest Hits (Rheostatics album)

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Greatest Hits is the first studio album by Canadian rock band Rheostatics.<ref name=conventions>"Rheostatics defy pop conventions". The Globe and Mail, January 1, 1991.</ref> Only 1,000 copies were released in 1987, and all sold out.<ref name=conventions/> The album was rereleased in 1996.

Despite the album's name, it is not a greatest hits compilation in the conventional sense. It does, however, compile songs from the band's pre-1987 demo releases. The album's best known song is "The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts I and II", an ode to Toronto Maple Leafs player Wendel Clark.<ref name=conventions/>

Track listing

1. "Crescent Moon" (Dave Bidini) – 2:58
2. "Canadian Dream" (Tim Vesely) – 4:05
3. "The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts I and II" (Bidini, Martin Tielli) – 3:30
4. "Ditch Pigs" (Tielli) – 4:22
5. "Higher and Higher" (Bidini) – 3:53
6. "OK by Me" (Bidini, Tielli, Vesely) – 3:20
7. "Churches and Schools" (Vesely) – 3:04
8. "Public Square" (Vesely) – 2:31
9. "Delta 88" (Bidini, Janet Morassutti) – 3:34