Editing Life in General (album)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Life in General
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[MxPx]]
| cover      = MxPx - Life in General cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start-date|November 19, 1996}}
| recorded   = April 1996 (1st recording)<br />July 1996 (2nd recording) at West Beach Studios, Hollywood
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Punk rock]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=MxPx, "Life In General" Review |url=http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/lifeingeneral.asp |access-date=December 23, 2017 |website=www.jesusfreakhideout.com}}</ref><ref name="underground">{{Cite web |title=MxPx Plans Within Plans |url=http://undergroundmusicunites.com/mxpx-plans-within-plans/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423181845/http://undergroundmusicunites.com/mxpx-plans-within-plans/ |archive-date=April 23, 2012 |publisher=Underground Music Unite}}</ref> [[skate punk]],<ref name="underground" /> {{nowrap|[[pop punk]]<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 15, 2017 |title=50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-pop-punk-albums-122677/the-jam-snap-1983-124387/ |access-date=February 12, 2021 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>}}
| length     = 43:46
| label      = [[Tooth & Nail Records|Tooth & Nail]]
| producer   = [[Steve Kravac]]
| prev_title = On the Cover
| prev_year  = 1995
| next_title = [[Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo]]
| next_year  = 1998
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Life in General
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Doing Time
 | single1date = 1997
 | single2     = Move To Bremerton
 | single2date = 1997
| single3 = Chick Magnet
| single3date = 1998
}}
}}
{{Album reviews
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Life in General - MxPx &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/life-in-general-mw0000087968 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
| rev2      = Punknews.org
| rev2score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=River |first=Julie |title=MXPX - Life in General |url=https://www.punknews.org/review/14468/mxpx-life-in-general |access-date=February 13, 2021 |website=www.punknews.org|date=June 23, 2016 }}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''
| rev3Score = 4.5/10<ref name=RHreview>{{cite web|url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/mxpx-life-in-general_181787.html|title=MxPx Life in General|work=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]|author=Jaedike, Jan|date=May 27, 1998|access-date=September 3, 2022|language=DE}}</ref>
}}

'''''Life in General''''' is the third studio album by American [[punk rock]] band [[MxPx]], released on November 19, 1996. The album features "Chick Magnet". The album features artwork by the artist [[Coop (artist)|Coop]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coop - Interviews - Entertainment - Bizarre Magazine UK<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/interviews/6999/coop.html |access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> Prior to the release of ''[[Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo]]'' (1998), the album had sold over 89,000 copies.<ref name="Reece18">Reece 1998, p. 18</ref>

==Track listing==
{{ track listing
| total_length    = 43:46
| all_writing     = Mike Herrera
| title1          = Middlename
| length1         = 2:55
| title2          = My Mom Still Cleans My Room
| length2         = 2:50
| title3          = Do Your Feet Hurt
| length3         = 3:10
| title4          = Sometimes You Have to Ask Yourself
| length4         = 2:19
| title5          = The Wonder Years
| length5         = 1:51
| title6          = Move to Bremerton
| length6         = 3:35
| title7          = New York to Nowhere
| length7         = 2:16
| title8          = Andrea
| length8         = 1:46
| title9          = Your Problem, My Emergency
| length9         = 3:16
| title10         = Chick Magnet
| length10        = 3:12
| title11         = Today Is in My Way
| length11        = 3:06
| title12         = Sorry So Sorry
| length12        = 2:14
| title13         = Doing Time
| length13        = 1:23
| title14         = Correct Me If I'm Wrong
| length14        = 2:33
| title15         = Cristalena
| length15        = 2:01
| title16         = Destroyed by You
| length16        = 2:33
| title17         = Southbound
| length17        = 2:34
}}

==''Life in General 2.0''==
To celebrate the album's 20th anniversary in 2016, the band re-recorded the album and released it via e-mail to fans for just one day only. In August 2017, the band officially released it through various streaming services as ''Life In General 2.0''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2017 |title=MxPx's 'Life In General' re-recording is now available for streaming |url=https://www.altpress.com/mxpx_life_in_general_20th_anniversary/|access-date=September 23, 2023 |website=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]}}</ref> 

==Personnel==
'''MxPx'''
* [[Mike Herrera]] – bass guitar, vocals
* Tom Wisniewski – guitar, background vocals
* Yuri Ruley – drums

'''Production'''
* [[Steve Kravac]] – producer, [[Audio engineering|engineer]], drum tech
* [[Brandon Ebel]] – executive producer, [[A&R]]

'''Artwork'''
* Coop – cover art, back art
* Claire Bigbie – layout
* Michele Herrera – photography
* Brandon Ebel – photography

==Charts==
'''Album'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (1996)
!scope="col"|Peak<br>position
|-
|align="left"|[[Top Heatseekers]]
|align="left"|22
|-
|align="left"|Top Contemporary Christian
|align="left"|16
|}

==References==
; Citations
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;Sources
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* {{Cite magazine |last=Reece |first=Doug |date=May 23, 1998 |title=A&M Rounds Up Existing Fan Base For MxPx's 'Buffalo' Set |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=110 |issue=21 |issn=0006-2510}}
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