Top 40 Hits

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Top 40 Hits
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Studio album by Anal Cunt
Released March 7, 1995
Recorded 1994
Genre Grindcore
Length 38:56
Label Earache
Producer Tina Morrissey
Anal Cunt chronology
Howard Is Bald
(1995)Howard Is Bald1995
Top 40 Hits
(1995)
40 More Reasons to Hate Us
(1996)40 More Reasons to Hate Us1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 1.5/5 stars [1]

Top 40 Hits is the second full-length album by Anal Cunt, released in 1995 on CD and cassette by Earache Records as MOSh 129 CD. It has 40 tracks, like the title implies, but the average track length is less than a minute long.

The cover of this album is a parody of the compilation albums released in the 1970s by TV advertising company K-Tel; these were the first compilation albums ever created.

The album was recorded in 1994 as part of the band's attempt to move from playing noisecore to playing fast hardcore songs, although the album contains both styles. There are also numerous cover songs on the album including those of Rupert Holmes's "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)", The Guess Who's "American Woman", Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", The A-Team theme song, and a cover of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive". Their "Oi! version" of this song was also released as a promotional single before the album was released.

The album reached number 8 in the CMJ Loud Chart, and in 2004, the album was made available for download from the official Anal Cunt webpage.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Some Hits"   Anal Cunt 1:18
2. "Some More Hits"   Anal Cunt 0:45
3. "Pepe, the Gay Waiter"   Seth Putnam 0:38
4. "Even More Hits"   Anal Cunt 0:49
5. "M.J.C."   Anal Cunt 1:27
6. "Flower Shop Guy"   Putnam 0:51
7. "Living Colour Is My Favorite Black Metal Band"   Anal Cunt 0:49
8. "Lenny's in My Neighborhood"   Anal Cunt 0:40
9. "Stayin' Alive (Oi! Version)"   The Bee Gees, arranged by Anal Cunt 1:23
10. "Benchpressing: The Effects on Kevin Sharp's Vocals"   Anal Cunt 0:38
11. "Josue"   Anal Cunt 0:11
12. "Delicious Face Style"   Putnam 2:01
13. "#19 to Go"   Putnam 0:16
14. "'Stealing Seth's Ideas': The New Book by Jon Chang"   Anal Cunt 1:06
15. "Morbid Dead Guy"   Putnam 1:00
16. "Believe in the King"   Anal Cunt 0:57
17. "Don't Call Japanese Hardcore Jap Core"   Putnam 0:35
18. "Shut Up Mike (Part 2)"   Bratface, Anal Cunt 0:33
19. "Hey, Aren't You Gary Spivey?"   Anal Cunt 0:43
20. "Breastfeeding Jm J. Bullock's Toenail Collection"   Putnam 4:49
21. "Fore Play with a Tree Shredder"   Putnam 0:50
22. "2 Down, 5 to Go"   Anal Cunt 0:31
23. "I Liked Earache Better When Dig Answered the Phone"   Anal Cunt 0:29
24. "Brain Dead"   Kozik, Putnam 1:34
25. "Newest H.C. Song #3"   Habelt, Patties, Putnam 0:25
26. "The Sultry Ways of Steve Berger"   Anal Cunt 0:52
27. "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"   Rupert Holmes, arranged by Anal Cunt 1:00
28. "Lives Ruined by Music"   Putnam 2:12
29. "Still a Freshman After All These Years"   Anal Cunt 0:47
30. "I'm Still Standing"   Elton John and Bernie Taupin, arranged by Anal Cunt 0:10
31. "Art Fag"   Kraynak, Putnam 0:48
32. "John"   Anal Cunt 0:37
33. "Newest H.C. Song #4"   Putnam 0:15
34. "Song #9"   Putnam 1:33
35. "Cleft Palate"   Anal Cunt 0:18
36. "Theme from The A-Team"   "Some Guy" 0:46
37. "Old Lady Across the Hall with No Life"   Anal Cunt 1:06
38. "Shut Up, Paul"   Anal Cunt 0:23
39. "Lazy Eye (Once a Hank, Always a Hank)"   Anal Cunt 1:03
40. "American Woman"   Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson 2:05

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