The Original Lo-Fi is a CD box set compiling 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 between 1995 and 1997, plus a sixth CD (entitled The Black Album), consisting of additional material recorded during the 1990s.

CD one (I Was Born A Man)

1. "Blow It To The Moon"
2. "Mans Tight Vest"
3. "Lemonade Baby"
4. "C.F.C."
5. "Cornershop"
6. "Kiss Your Country"
7. "Hong Kong Blues"
8. "Dead Bird Sings"
9. "Baby Bird"
10. "Farmer"
11. "Invisible Tune"
12. "Alison"
13. "Love Love Love"

CD two (Bad Shave)

1. "KW Jesus TV Roof Appeal"
2. "Bad Jazz"
3. "Too Handsome To Be Homeless"
4. "Steam Train"
5. "Bad Shave"
6. "Oh My God You're A King"
7. "The Restaurant Is Guilty"
8. "Valerie"
9. "Shop Girl"
10. "W.B.T."
11. "Hate Song"
12. "45 & Fat"
13. "Sha Na Na"
14. "Bug In A Breeze"
15. "It's Okay"
16. "Happy Bus"
17. "Swinging From Tree To Tree"
18. "Past Lasts Longer"
19. "Why?"

CD three (Fatherhood)

1. "No Children"
2. "Cooling Towers"
3. "Cool & Crazy Things To Do"
4. "Bad Blood"
5. "Neil Armstrong"
6. "I Was Never Here"
7. "Saturday"
8. "Good Night"
9. "I Didn't Want To Wake You Up"
10. "Iceberg"
11. "Aluminium Beach"
12. "Goddamn It, You're A Kid"
13. "Daisies"
14. "Failed Old Singer"
15. "Fatherhood"
16. "Dustbin Liner"
17. "Not About A Girl"
18. "Good Weather"
19. "But Love"
20. "May We"

CD four (The Happiest Man Alive)

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"

CD five (Dying Happy)

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"

CD six (The Black Album)

1. "Pipes Of Heaven"
2. "Come On (Home)"
3. "Coming Alive In Your Eyes"
4. "I'm So Tired"
5. "I Know"
6. "To Find The Sunshine"
7. "The Lights Go Out"
8. "When The Sun Is Shining"
9. "All I Want"
10. "Pretty Little Sparks"
11. "I Wanna Be Your Jesus Christ"
12. "Take Me Away"
13. "You Will Always Be Here"
14. "The Last Breath"
15. "Drunk Car"
16. "Harry & Ida Say Goodnight"

Reviews

"The five albums in question form a song-cycle tracking the life-cycle from birth to death. The sheer wealth and diversity of music crammed into this tiny box makes it an absolute bargain." - The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

"The Original Lo-Fi should cement Baby Bird's reputation as one of the finest experimental pop artists of his time...Written, performed, and produced as only Stephen Jones is capable of, the songs compiled on The Original Lo-Fi are easily among the finest musical confections of a generation." - Allmusic