Life’s Hard and Then You Die

Tracklist

• CD 1: Original Album Remastered, Plus B‐sides & Single Versions
• 1
  Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune)
  4:13
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Happy Talk
  5:30
• 3
  Rope
  3:36
• 4
  The Better Idea
  5:41
• 5
  Space
  3:59
• 6
  The Sweet Life
  4:38
• 7
  Festival Time
  3:53
• 8
  Ed’s Funky Diner
  3:06
• 9
  Hang on Sleepy Town
  4:21
• 10
  Lullaby
  6:27
• 11
  Washing the Air (single version)
  3:25
• 12
  We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (The Enthusiast’s Song)
  4:31
• 13
  Only the Lonely
  3:47
• 14
  A Crooked Tune
  3:41
• 15
  Trains, Boats, Planes
  3:51
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Hereby Hangs a Tale
  4:09
• 17
  Kissing With Lord Herbert
  3:01
• 18
  Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune) (single version)
  3:52
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Space (single version)
  4:04
• CD 2: Peel Sessions & Remixes
• 1
  Space (John Peel session)
  3:48
• 2
  Hang on Sleepy Town (John Peel session)
  4:11
• 3
  Festival Time (John Peel session)
  3:31
• 4
  Rope (John Peel session)
  3:32
• 5
  Ed’s Funky Diner (The Keinholz Caper)
  5:55
• 6
  Washing the Air (Rub a dub mix)
  5:30
• 7
  Driving Away From Home (Wicked Weather for Walking)
  7:12
• 8
  Ed’s Funky Diner (Friday Night, Saturday Morning)
  8:06
• 9
  We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (When the Revolution Comes)
  4:07
• 10
  Driving Away From Home (I Mean After All It’s Only ‘Dead Man’s Curve’)
  6:31
• 11
  Space, He Called From the Kitchen
  7:11
• 12
  Rope (extended mix)
  6:08
• 13
  Space (instrumental)
  4:03
• 14
  Jazz Bo’s Holiday Transatlantique
  4:49
• 15
  Driving Away From Home (original 4‐track demo)
  3:13

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Release credits

• Alastair Thain
  task
• Brenda Kenny
  performer, marimba [2.11, 2.13, 1.5, 1.19]
• Cürt Evans
  task
• Dale Griffin
  producer [1-4]
• David Bascombe
  liner notes, additional [15, 18], producer [2.5-6, 1.8, 1.13], remixer [15, 18]
• Felix Kendall
  engineer
• Gillian Miller
  performer, background vocals [7]
• Henry Priestman
  performer, organ [6], saxophone [7]
• It’s Immaterial
  art direction, design, producer [1.12, 2.5, 2.9, 2.15], recording [15, 18]
• Jarvis Whitehead
  liner notes, bouzouki [9], cello [10], recorder [7]
• John Campbell
  liner notes
• Keystone
  task
• Martin Colley
  engineer [1-4]
• Merran Laginestra
  performer, vocal [1.1, 1.18, 2.7, 2.10]
• Nick Watson
  mastering
• Red Ranch
  art direction, design
• Roddy Lorimer
  performer
• Ross Stapleton
  liner notes
• Steve Wickham
  performer, violin [1.3, 1.9, 2.12]
• Tansy Spinks
  task
• Tarrant Bailey Jr.
  performer, banjo [1.3, 2.12, 2.14]
• The Christians
  performer, background vocals [1.8, 2.5, 2.8]
• The Photosource Ltd
  task
• Show all credits (23)

Issues

• L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  CD
  24 November 1986
• L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  12" Vinyl
  1986
• L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  CD
  1986
• L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  CD
  1986
• 

  L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  2x CD (deluxe edition)
  1 July 2016
• L
  Life’s Hard and Then You Die

  12" Vinyl
  January 2024