Greatest (The Go-Go's album)

Greatest is a 1990 compilation album by American rock band the Go-Go's. 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 studio albums, 1981's Beauty and the Beat, 1982's Vacation, and 1984's Talk Show, only omitting three minor hit singles, "He's So Strange", "This Old Feeling", and "Yes or No".

ReleasedOctober 5, 1990

Recorded1981–1984, 1990

GenresPop rock, new wave, post-punk

Length46:45

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Greatest
Greatest hits album by the Go-Go's
Released	October 5, 1990
Recorded	1981–1984, 1990
Genres	Pop rock, new wave, post-punk
Length	46:45
Label	I.R.S.
The Go-Go's chronology
Talk Show (1984) Greatest (1990) Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's (1994)
Singles from Greatest
"Cool Jerk" / "We Got the Beat" Released: 1990

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AllMusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]
The Village Voice	A[3]

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The collection does not include any new songs, except for a re-recording of the band's cover version of "Cool Jerk" (which had first been covered by the band on Vacation), which was also released as the one single from the compilation, reaching number 60 on the UK Singles Chart in 1991 and becoming the second Go-Go's song to ever enter the British charts (the third and highest UK hit from the band would eventually be "The Whole World Lost Its Head", peaking at number 29, from their second greatest hits album, 1994's Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's).

A mint-green vinyl re-release of the album was released through Target in July 2020.