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, MINUTEMEN, SIN 34, SHATTERED FAITH along with more obscure, experimental ones as DOO-DOOETTES, MODERN TORTURE, and TONE DEAF.

Artwork by Raymond Pettibon.
LIMITED EDITION ON RED 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

A1 Germs Strange Notes

A2 Germs Caught In My Eye

A3 Minutemen Base King

A4 Redd Kross Out Of Focus

A5 Modern Warfare Moral Majority

A6 Shattered Faith The Omen

A7 Anti Without Love We Will Die

A8 Mood Of Defiance American Love Song

A9 Hari-Kari Prey For Peace

A10 Sin 34 – Forced Education

B1 Artistic Decline Friday Punk

B2 Modern Torture – Fascist Media

B3 Invisible Chains – Paisley Douche / Cactus Juice

B4 Slivers Restraint For Style

B5 Vox Pop Tumble Bug

B6 Marshall Mellow Marshmellow Children

B7 Carl Stone Jang

B8 Doo-Dooettes Red Wrec. Said (Version)

B9 Zurich 1916 No Canvas

B10 Tone Deaf Story Of A T.V. Murder

B11 Debt Of Nature And It Got Hit By A Truck

B12 Debt Of Nature Your Life Means Nothing