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Babybird is a British
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Jones had begun writing songs and recording home demos as part
of an
During 1995, two further albums of demo recordings were
released under the name Baby Bird (
By the end of the year, a decent public following had been
built up, as well as quite considerable excitement within the press and
music industry. Babybird were signed to
The second single, "You're Gorgeous", about Jones falling in love with a model he saw in a catalogue, reached number 3 in the UK in October 1996, and was also one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world. This remains the song for which Stephen Jones and Babybird are best known.
However, it presented a much more commercial face to the
public in comparison to Jones' previous work. The early demo albums won
Jones great credibility with those who heard them, but had had not
reached a wide audience (each one being a one-off pressing limited to
1,000 CDs and 1,000 LPs). Arguably, the commercial sound and success of
"You're Gorgeous", which received massive exposure by comparison, made
it hard for many to take Jones seriously as an
It was actually written for
The album Ugly Beautiful was released to a warm reception, but was not the unmitigated critical triumph that some had anticipated from Babybird's first studio-recorded album. The album produced two more hit singles, "Candy Girl" and "Cornershop".
Babybird returned, minus keyboardist Huw Chadbourn, in 1998 with There's Something Going On, preceded by a single, "Bad Old Man". The album was a modest success and was followed by further minor hits, "If You'll Be Mine" and "Back Together".
In 2000, a line-up of Babybird comprising Stephen Jones, Luke
Scott and Matt Hay created a third album. Bugged,
which was well-received critically (it might be suggested that it is an
album of the right quality, but four years later than expected).
However, sales were poor and the two singles from it, "The F-Word"
(later the theme tune to a UK
Stephen Jones went on to write fiction, release solo work and score a film, Blessed, in 2004.
In October 2005, a posting on the official
Babybird website announced that the band had reformed as a
three-piece featuring Stephen, Luke Scott and Robert Gregory. A new
album, entitled
"Jones can't decide whether to sell out by writing polished,
shamelessly catchy pop like You're Gorgeous or retain his street cred
by affecting to despise the genre. Babybird's best is yet to come: this
time he's laid a
"...an album that - at the risk of sounding like the kind of
armchair psychologist who thinks
"Bugged is an immaculate, complex, bursting-at-the-seams pop
delight. You won't hear it on the radio, so there's only one thing to
do: go and buy this record. You won't regret it." -
"...chart success isn't everything. Listening to this
collection what strikes you is that BabyBird's sound still sounds very
2004. There's nothing that really dates these songs...but from a
presentation point of view this should have been so much better." -
The Babybird song "The F Word" is the theme song for the