First-ever vinyl reissue for this seminal compilation of early California Hardcore Punk, originally issued on the NEW UNDERGROUND label in 1983. Featuring such names as the GERMS, M.I.A., CHINA WHITE, SHATTERED FAITH along with more obscure ones as Marshall Mellow, Ill Will, Powertrip.

Artwork by Raymond Pettibon.
LIMITED EDITION ON ORANGE VINYL. WITH FULLY REMASTERED AUDIO, INCLUDES DOUBLE SIDED INSERT WITH LINER NOTES BY SUSAN SWEAR.
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“Once you listen to the bands on Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself, and the other two volumes: Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods and Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record, the listener will agree that these are some of the best punk compilations of their time. No punk record collection is complete without copies of these albums, and it is amazing how time has forgotten and overlooked the impact and important piece of punk music history they are a part of. Now, thanks to Radiation Records, all three Life Is record compilations by New Underground Records are being re-released. Almost 40 years after their initial release, the Life Is compilations are the perfect soundtrack for the chaotic world we are currently living in.”

(Susan Swear)

Tracklist

Bags We Will Bury You

Anti Up At Four

Anti Repressed Agression

Shattered Faith Victims Of Society

Shattered Faith Short-Haired Thugs

Shattered Faith What Happened?

China White Danger Zone

M.I.A. Last Day At The Races

M.I.A. Missing Or Captured

Ill Will Ill Will Theme Song

Ill Will Mr. Government

Germs Media Blitz (Live At The Hong Kong Caf)

Germs What We Do Is Secret (Live At The Hong Kong Caf)

Minutemen – Prelude

Bpeople I Said Everybody

Mood Of Defiance Girl In A Painting Part 2

Mood Of Defiance Flower Child

Invisible Chains Eienstiens Followers

Marshall Mellow Marshmellow Children

Zurich 1916 – Sugars Sugar

Zurich 1916 Interconnected Amplifier Feedback Loop Piece #2 Section E (1979)

Vox Pop Good Times Pt.1

Vox Pop Paint It Black

Powertrip Iron Horse