| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
|---|
| 1 | The Modern World | The Jam | | 2:32 |
| 2 | Neat Neat Neat | The Damned | | 2:41 |
| 3 | Into the Valley | Skids | | 3:10 |
| 4 | Staring at the Rude Boys | The Ruts | 5 | 3:13 |
| 5 | Germ Free Adolescents | X‐Ray Spex | 2 | 3:12 |
| 6 | Mary of the 4th Form | The Boomtown Rats | | 3:48 |
| 7 | Is She Really Going Out With Him | Joe Jackson | | 3:34 |
| 8 | Life in a Day- engineer and producer:
- John Leckie
- bass guitar:
- Derek Forbes
- drums (drum set) and percussion:
- Brian McGee
- guitar:
- Charlie Burchill
- keyboard:
- Michael MacNeil
- lead vocals:
- Jim Kerr
- vocals:
- Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Michael MacNeil and Brian McGee
- arranger:
- John Leckie and Simple Minds
- recorded at:
- Farmyard Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1979-01)
- mixed at:
- The Town House in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Fulham, London , England, United Kingdom (from 1979-02-19 until 1979-02-28)
- recording of:
- Life in a Day
- lyricist and composer:
- Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr
- publisher:
- EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (from 1979 until 2007), Hornall Music (from 2008 until 2014), JKMC-Bucks Music Group Ltd (from 2008 until 2014) and BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (from 2015 to present)
| Simple Minds | | 4:08 |
| 9 | Swords of a Thousand Men | Tenpole Tudor | 4.5 | 2:56 |
| 10 | Airport | The Motors | 3 | 4:31 |
| 11 | (I Can’t Get Me No) Satisfaction | DEVO | 4.6 | 2:40 |
| 12 | Teenage Depression | Eddie & the Hot Rods | | 2:55 |
| 13 | Touch and Go | Magazine | | 2:57 |
| 14 | Woman in Disguise | Angelic Upstarts | | 3:07 |
| 15 | Billy Bentley | Kilburn and The High Roads | | 3:00 |
| 16 | Kicker Conspiracy | The Fall | 5 | 4:15 |
| 17 | Follow the Leaders | Killing Joke | | 4:05 |
| 18 | I Heard It Through the Grapevine | The Slits | 4 | 3:58 |
| 19 | Solitary Confinement | The Members | | 3:54 |
| 20 | Nights in White Satin | The Dickies | | 2:55 |
