The Happiest Man Alive was the fourth 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 1995.

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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The album includes a version of the song "Candy Girl", subsequently a UK top-ten hit for Jones' band Babybird

Babybird

Babybird are a British indie band formed in 1995. The band is fronted by Stephen Jones, who has also released records as a solo artist, using his own name.-Career:Jones had begun...

 (written as one word).

Track listing

1. "Razorblade Shower"
2. "Sundial In A Tunnel"
3. "Little White Man"
4. "Halfway Up The Hill"
5. "Horsesugar"
6. "Please Don't Be Famous"
7. "Louise"
8. "Copper Feel"
9. "Seagullably"
10. "Dead In Love"
11. "Candy Girl"
12. "Gunfingers"
13. "Married"
14. "In The Country"
15. "Planecrash Xmas"
16. "This Beautiful Disease"
17. "You'll Get A Slap"
18. "In The Morning"

Reviews

"...an oblique sadist of spectacular talent. The Happiest Man Alive has an entire central nervous system

Central nervous system

The central nervous system is the part of the nervous system that integrates the information that it receives from, and coordinates the activity of, all parts of the bodies of bilaterian animals—that is, all multicellular animals except sponges and radially symmetric animals such as jellyfish...

 of its own. It's a Frankenstein's monster

Frankenstein's monster

Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...

 of an album, gruesome and miraculous, stitched together from what would appear to be fragments of a dozen different psyches lodged inside one head." - Melody Maker

Melody Maker

Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...