"Screaming Life [along] with its 1988 follow-up, the Fopp EP, [is] being reissued by Sub Pop - only this time with a needed Jack Endino remastering job and one bonus track, the jokey throwaway jam "Sub Pop Rock City", drawn from 1988's Sub Pop 200 compilation. The latter is sheer filler, as is the six-minute dub version of Fopp's title track and the passable, unremarkable cover of Green River's seminal "Swallow My Pride". That leaves eight songs out of 11 worth listening to on the reissue-some more than others".