Life Was Better was the second EP release by Australian rock band Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially known as Deer Bubbles and then The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in...

. It was released in November 1994 on the Melbourne independent label Au Go Go Records

Au Go Go Records

Au Go Go Records is the name of a Melbourne, Australia based independent record label.It was founded by Bruce Milne and Philip Morland from a house in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979 and is now operated by Greta Moon....

. This was the band's first recording after regrouping in the wake of a split in April 1994, brought about by singer/guitarist Adalita Srsen

Adalita Srsen

Adalita Srsen is an Australian rock musician, known best as a founding member of rock band Magic Dirt.-Early life and childhood:Adalita was born in Geelong, Australia on 25 February 1971. She told Rolling Stone magazine in 2003 that her father, a Croatian cabaret performer, named her after a...

 and bass player Dean Turner ending their relationship.

Both "Ice" and an edited version of "Amoxycillin" (the EP version includes ten minutes of feedback

Feedback

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) found significant radio support, pushing the EP to #1 on the Australian independent records chart. "Life Was Better" remained on the chart for 75 weeks, eventually selling over 20,000 copies, equivalent to gold record status.

CD track listing

Personnel

• Adalita Srsen
  Adalita Srsen
  Adalita Srsen is an Australian rock musician, known best as a founding member of rock band Magic Dirt.-Early life and childhood:Adalita was born in Geelong, Australia on 25 February 1971. She told Rolling Stone magazine in 2003 that her father, a Croatian cabaret performer, named her after a...
  
   - vocals, guitar
• Dean Turner - bass
• Adam Robertson - drums
• Daniel Herring - guitar