The Greatest Hits – Why Try Harder is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by English big beat

Big beat

Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...

 musician Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim

Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...

, released on 19 June 2006. In addition to previously released material, the album includes two new tracks: "Champion Sound" and "That Old Pair of Jeans". A collection of music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s titled The Greatest Hits – Why Make Videos was also released in 2006.

Release history

To save space on the audio disc, the songs are shorter radio edits with the exception of the final track. The profanity in "Wonderful Night" remains intact in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 edition, but was removed for the United States

United States

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. "Champion Sound" is also significantly different on the U.S. edition, as it contains verses that are absent from the UK release.

Cover art

For the U.S. release, the front cover was altered to that of Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Joe Dirt, Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New...

 from the "Weapon of Choice" music video. The title of the compilation comes from the slogan on the T-shirt

T-shirt

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 of the obese man who adorns the non-U.S. covers of both this album and You've Come a Long Way, Baby

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 19 October 1998 through the label Skint Records. The album liner notes state that the album was made at The House of Love. The album peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number...

, "I'M #1 SO WHY TRY HARDER".

Track listing

The Greatest Hits – Why Make Videos DVD

1. "Praise You"
2. "The Rockafeller Skank"
3. "Weapon of Choice (Starring Christopher Walken)"
4. "Gangster Trippin'"
5. "Wonderful Night"
6. "Right Here, Right Now"
7. "Going Out of My Head"
8. "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)"
9. "Everybody Loves a Carnival"
10. "Don't Let the Man Get You Down (Swimming Ending)"
11. "Demons"
12. "Slash Dot Dash"
13. "Santa Cruz"
14. "Ya Mama"
15. "Star 69"
16. "The Joker"
17. "That Old Pair of Jeans"

Rare and Unseen Videos

1. Sunset (Bird of Prey) (Directors Cut)
2. Star 69 (Animated Version)
3. Everybody Needs a 303 (Pigboy)
4. The Rockafeller Skank (Spike Jonze Audition Demo Version)
5. Build It Up, Tear It Down

• Why Make Videos (documentary)

Special Bonus Section

1. Are We Having Fun Yet?
2. Live from Brighton, Brazil & Brixton

Sales and certifications

The album sold 20,014 copies in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

in its first week.