Spiderbait - Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation album by Australian rock band Spiderbait, originally released in September 2005 via Universal Music.

Formed in 1989 and boasting seven albums between 1992 and 2013, Spiderbait can proudly call themselves Australian Indie Rock pioneers; blending left-of-centre lyricism, crunchy riffs and a punk attitude into a distinctively Australian context.

Spiderbait originated in Finley, a small town in rural New South Wales, by bass guitarist Janet English, singer-drummer Mark Maher (better known as Kram), and guitarist Damian Whitty. In 2004 the group's cover version of the 1930s Lead Belly song “Black Betty” reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart.

They have five top 20 albums: The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (1995), Ivy and the Big Apples (1996), Grand Slam (1999), Tonight Alright (2004), and Greatest Hits (2005).

After a hiatus from 2004, the band released their first studio album in nine years, the self-titled Spiderbait in November 2013.

The band decided to put out the compilation in 2005 after discovering newer fans had not been aware of Spiderbait before “Black Betty”. "We'd talk to these excited kids who didn't know our previous albums," recalls Kram. "It was like Tonight Alright was our debut album in some ways".

The sequencing of Greatest Hits was done in reverse order, with the new song “On My Way” at the start and “Circle K” from 1991 at the end.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the band’s formation, Greatest Hits was released on vinyl for the very first time in 2016.

This double album 2LP record set is a 2026 repress on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in Australia via Universal Music.