Life Is Unfair by Black Box Recorder

Album cover for Life Is Unfair - Black Box Recorder
1. Girl Singing in the Wreckage
2:42
2. England Made Me
4:00
3. New Baby Boom
2:11
4. It's Only the End of the World
5:22
5. Ideal Home
2:40
6. Child Psychology
4:08
7. I. C. One Female
2:20
8. Uptown Top Ranking
3:58
9. Swinging
3:53
10. Kidnapping an Heiress
2:46
11. Wonderful Life
2:17
12. Hated Sunday
3:17
1. The Art of Driving
4:26
2. Weekend
2:27
3. The English Motorway System
4:41
4. May Queen
3:39
5. Sex Life
2:56
6. French Rock 'n' Roll
3:01
7. The Facts of Life
4:38
8. Straight Life
4:10
9. Gift Horse
3:31
10. The Deverell Twins
2:43
11. Goodnight Kiss
3:35
1. The School Song
3:41
2. GSOH Q.E.D.
3:46
3. British Racing Green
4:34
4. Being Number One
3:26
5. The New Diana
2:49
6. These Are the Things
3:58
7. Andrew Ridgley
3:48
8. When Britain Refused to Sing
3:14
9. Girls Guide for the Modern Diva
4:09
10. I Ran All the Way Home
4:27
1. The Facts of Life (radio edit)
3:12
2. Start as You Mean to Go On
2:31
3. Soul Boy
2:09
4. The Facts of Life (Chocolate Layers remix)
6:25
5. Uptown Top Ranking
4:06
6. Brutality
2:18
7. Watch the Angel, Not the Wire
2:23
8. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
3:07
9. The Art Of Driving (BBC Session)
4:30
10. Straight Life (BBC Session)
4:10
11. Goodnight Kiss (BBC Session)
3:33
12. Land of Our Fathers
3:02
13. 17 And Deadly
2:25
14. Passionoia Megamix
3:39
15. Lord Lucan Is Missing
2:23
16. Keep It in the Family
3:01
17. Do You Believe in God?
4:03
1. Wonderful Life
2:28
2. British Racing Green
4:45
3. England Made Me
3:53
4. Girl Singing in the Wreckage
2:36
5. I.C. One Female
3:05
6. Child Psychology
4:10
7. Lord Lucan Is Missing
2:11
8. Child Psychology
4:08
9. England Made Me
4:00
10. The Facts of Life
3:17
11. The Art of Driving
3:42

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…