Three Factory Twelves in 24-Bit

Life - Dites Moi

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Factory Benelux Records (FBN 37) to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. A couple of years back, I spent December ripping Factory Records for fun on ESWA. Here are a couple which didn't feature back then for your listening pleasure. Everybody incl. Blogmeister works so hard.

A1 Dites Moi
A2 Tell Me Theme
B Tell Me

The Wake - Talk About The Past

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Factory Records (FAC 88) in 1984 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio.

A1 Talk About The Past
B1 Everybody Works So Hard

Miaow -When It All Comes Down

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Factory Records (FAC 179) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio.

A1   When It All Comes Down (Catechism)
B1   Did She
B2   When It All Comes Down

Life - 2x7" Singles

Tell Me : ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on Factory Records (FAC 106) in 1984 to lossless FLAC audio.

A. Tell Me

B. Tell Me (Theme)

Hear

Optimism / Better : ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on Factory Records (FAC 122) in 1985 to lossless FLAC audio.

A. Optimism

B. Better

Listen

Life - Tell Me / Better / Optimism / Dites Moi

Life were Graham, Rita, Terry & Andy with a little help from Gillian & Steve! Their short lived career produced just two UK 7" singles (with 12" versions in Europe) and a handful of live gigs. I was lucky to see them support The Fall at The Hacienda and remember them actually being rather good, or was it that Rita was in fact rather fit, I can't really recall. ;-) From memory they performed about 6 songs as a three piece with backing tapes and a drum machine. Steve Morris worked the tape machine from the left of the stage & Peter Hook acted as guitar roadie! Andy is in fact Andy Robinson, former New Order manager, I've no clue where Rita and the rest of Life have ended up.

Here is their rather limited discography ripped from various sources: the original Tell Me 7", the Better/Optimism UK 7" , both released on Factory Records and the Factory Benelux released Dites Moi. The live track was from a 1983 demo recorded live at Brixton Fridge in 1983, it is bloody awful but I've included it for completeness.

Choose Life!