Dying Happy was the fifth of five albums of home-made recordings, released by Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones (Baby Bird)

Stephen Jones is an English musician and novelist.- Lo-fi period :After studying at Nottingham Trent University, Jones became involved with an experimental theatre company, Dogs in Honey, in Sheffield in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions.By 1994, Jones had written over 400 songs and...

 under the name Baby Bird in 1996.

It was originally a limited edition release, but is now available as part of the 2002 CD box set The Original Lo-Fi

The Original Lo-Fi

The Original Lo-Fi is a CD box set compiling five albums of home-made recordings released by Stephen Jones under the name Baby Bird between 1995 and 1997, plus a sixth CD , consisting of additional material recorded during the 1990s.-CD one :#"Blow It To The Moon"#"Mans Tight Vest"#"Lemonade...

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Track listing

All tracks by Stephen Jones

1. "Losing My Hair"
2. "Tomorrow's Gone"
3. "Petrol Cigarette"
4. "When Everyone Speaks English, The World Will Explode"
5. "Homesick Satellites"
6. "TV"
7. "The Unemployable Rub Oil On Her Coffin"
8. "Grandma Begs To Be 18 Again"
9. "It's Alright Dad, Isn't It"
10. "Lead Cloud"
11. "Cheap Astronaut"
12. "Metal Waterpistol"

Reviews

"Halfway between songs and instrumentals, some of the tracks on Dying Happy just don't work at all, but some of them are riveting." - The Times

The Times

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