Tracklist
- 1Girl Singing in the Wreckage2:42
- 2England Made Me4:00
- 3New Baby Boom2:10
- 4It's Only the End of the World5:22
- 5Ideal Home2:39
- 6Child Psychology4:08
- 7I.C. One Female2:19
- 8Uptown Top Ranking4:08
- 9Swinging3:52
- 10Kidnapping an Heiress2:46
- 11Wonderful Life2:16
- 12Hated Sunday3:16
- 13The Art of Driving4:25
- 14Weekend2:27
- 15The English Motorway System4:40
- 16May Queen3:39
- 17Sex Life2:56
- 18French Rock'n'Roll3:01
- 19The Facts of Life4:37
- 20Straight Life4:09
- 21Gift Horse3:30
- 22The Deverell Twins2:43
- 23Goodnight Kiss3:36
- 24The School Song3:35
- 25Gsoh Q.E.D.3:46
- 26British Racing Green4:34
- 27Being Number One3:26
- 28The New Diana2:49
- 29These Are the Things3:59
- 30Andrew Ridgley3:48
- 31When Britain Refused to Sing3:14
- 32Girls Guide for the Modern Diva4:09
- 33I Ran All the Way Home4:27
- 34The Facts of Life (single version)3:12
- 35Start As You Mean to Go On2:30
- 36Soul Boy2:08
- 37The Facts of Life (Chocolate Layers remix)6:25
- 38Uptown Top Ranking4:08
- 39Brutality2:18
- 40Watch the Angel Not the Wire2:26
- 41Rock'n'Roll Suicide (BBC session)3:07
- 42The Art of Driving - BBC Session4:30
- 43Straight Life - BBC Session4:10
- 44Goodnight Kiss - BBC Session3:33
- 45Land of Our Fathers3:05
- 4617 and Deadly2:24
- 47Passionoia Megamix3:40
- 48Lord Lucan Is Missing1:47
- 49Keep It in the Family3:01
- 50Do You Believe In God?4:03
- 51Wonderful Life2:16
- 52British Racing Green4:34
- 53England Made Me4:00
- 54Girl Singing in the Wreckage2:42
- 55I.C. One Female2:19
- 56Child Psychology4:08
- 57Lord Lucan Is Missing1:47
- 58Child Psychology4:08
- 59England Made Me4:00
- 60The Facts of Life4:37
- 61The Art of Driving4:25
About This Album
Black Box Recorder featured The Auteurs‘ frontman Luke Haines, Sarah Nixey and John Moore, formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Haines and Moore wrote the songs and Nixey sang them. The single The Facts of Life reached number 20 in 2000 and remains the biggest hit of any single that Luke Haines has had a hand in writing. Life Is Unfair contain all three albums — England Made Me (1998), The Facts of Life (2000) and Passionoia (2003), as well as a 16 track bonus CD of unreleased material, BBC Sessions, single versions and remixes. …Like the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder’s songs commented on the state of English affairs, both social and personal, often using character sketches that exposed the less-than-pleasant…