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Is This the Life?

1988 single by Cardiacs
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Is This the Life?

Summary

Is This the Life? is a single[1]. Is This the Life? ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Is This the Life?'s instance of is recorded as single[3].
  • Is This the Life? followed There's Too Many Irons in the Fire[4].
  • Is This the Life? was followed by Susannah's Still Alive[5].
  • Is This the Life? was performed by Cardiacs[6].
  • Is This the Life? was released on March 1988[7].
  • Is This the Life?'s single taken from the album or EP is recorded as A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window[8].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Release type: Single[9]

  • First release date: 1988-03-21[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 82d2f8a1-3bcc-4835-8fc6-b48d659b834d[11]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Is This the Life? was Cardiacs[6].

Publication

Is This the Life? was released on March 1988[7].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Is This the Life? followed There's Too Many Irons in the Fire[4]. Is This the Life? was followed by Susannah's Still Alive[5].

Why It Matters

Is This the Life? ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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