Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)

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Greatest Hits (2020 Versions)
Studio album by
Released13 March 2020 (2020-03-13)
Recorded8 November 2019
Studio Abbey Radio, London, England
Genre Alternative rock
Label Marshall Records
Producer Chris Sheldon
Therapy? chronology
Cleave
(2018)
Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)
(2020)
Hard Cold Fire
(2023)
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Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session) is a live-in-studio album by the rock band Therapy?. It was released by Marshall Records on 13 March 2020. [2] The 12 tracks, all re-recordings of UK Top 40 singles originally released between 1992 and 1998, were recorded on 8 November 2019 at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Contents

The album was released on black vinyl, translucent green vinyl and double CD. While initial pre-order physical copies carried the "Abbey Road" subtitle, following an issue raised by the studio over naming rights, re-pressings and all digital copies were retitled Greatest Hits (2020 Versions).

The second part of the double CD release, entitled Official Bootleg 1990–2020, features 15 live songs (one to represent each studio album in the band's discography) recorded between 1990 and 2018, compiled from the band's personal archives.

Track listing

Disc 1: Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Teethgrinder"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
2."Screamager"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
3."Opal Mantra"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
4."Turn"Cairns 
5."Nowhere"Cairns 
6."Trigger Inside"Cairns 
7."Die Laughing" (featuring James Dean Bradfield)Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
8."Stories"Cairns, McKeegan 
9."Loose"Cairns 
10."Diane" Grant Hart  
11."Church of Noise"Cairns 
12."Lonely, Cryin', Only"Cairns 
Disc 2: Official Bootleg 1990–2020
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Loser Cop (Belfast, N. Ireland 20.06.90)"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
2."Skinning Pit (Vienna, Austria 17.04.92)"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
3."Perversonality (Osaka, Japan 11.10.93)"Cairns, Ewing, McKeegan 
4."Brainsaw (New York, USA 11.05.94)"Cairns 
5."Jude the Obscene (London, England 19.12.15)"Cairns 
6."The Boy's Asleep (London, England 07.12.98)"Cairns, McCarrick, McKeegan 
7."Big Cave In (Zurich, Switzerland 26.11.99)"Cairns, McCarrick, McKeegan, Hopkins 
8."Body Bag Girl (Berlin, Germany 17.11.01)"Cairns, McCarrick, McKeegan, Hopkins 
9."Nobody Here But Us (St. Gallen, Switzerland 29.06.03)"Cairns, McCarrick, McKeegan, Cooper 
10."Long Distance (Werchter, Belgium 02.07.05)"Cairns, McKeegan, Cooper 
11."Dopamine Seratonin Adrenaline (Lokeren, Belgium 04.08.06)"Cairns, McKeegan, Cooper 
12."Bad Excuse For Daylight (Tilburg, Netherlands 04.11.09)"Cairns, McKeegan, Cooper 
13."Before You, With You, After You (Dortmund, Germany 29.10.11)"Cairns, McKeegan, Cooper 
14."Torment Sorrow Misery Strife (Utrecht, Netherlands 03.04.15)"Cairns 
15."Crutch (Leuven, Belgium 23.10.18)"Cairns 

Personnel

Therapy?

Additional musicians

Production

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [3] 9
UK Albums (OCC) [4] 40

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