BABYBIRD: Ugly Beautiful PROMO CD 1996 USA release. Check whole album (Audio) and videos for “Goodnight”, “You’re Gorgeous”, “Candy Girl”, “Cornershop”

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Check whole album (Audio), all 15 songs, playlist below:

Track listing USA release:
“Goodnight” 2:53
“Candy Girl” 3:57
“Jesus is My Girlfriend” 5:24
“I Didn’t Want to Wake You Up” 5:15
“Dead Bird Sings” 4:24
“Atomic Soda” 5:08
“You’re Gorgeous” 3:42
“Bad Shave” 4:39
“Cornershop” 3:48
“You & Me” 4:09
“45 & Fat” 4:13
“Too Handsome to be Homeless” 4:44
“CFC” – 3:42
“July” 3:47
“Baby Bird” 5:00

Ugly Beautiful is the début studio album by rock band Babybird released in 1996. The album also includes alternative versions of many of lead singer Stephen Jones’ solo lo-fi work that he did prior to forming the band. Many of these original tracks can be heard on the five albums contained in The Original Lo-Fi boxset. The single, “You’re Gorgeous”, reached number 3 in the UK in October 1996.

Released 1996
Genre Indie
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Stephen Jones, Steve Power, Darren Allison, Ian Caple

Samples: www.allmusic.com/album/ugly-beautiful-mw0000028349

Singles from Ugly Beautiful:
“Goodnight”
Released: 29 July 1996
“You’re Gorgeous”
Released: 30 September 1996
“Candy Girl”
Released: 20 January 1997
“Cornershop”
Released: 5 May 1997

 

Moving to a major label and switching to a full backing band for Ugly Beautiful is both a positive and negative development for Baby Bird. In the positive sense, Stephen Jones’ songs -including a handful of tracks that were on his indie releases- are given a clarity they were lacking in the past, and the full-bodied arrangements reveal songs like “Good Night” and “You’re Gorgeous” as effortlessly catchy pop singles. However, the sonic clarity and larger arrangements also reveal that Jones is neither as clever nor as strange as his lo-fi albums suggested. Indeed, he often sounds like hes stuck in 1985, replicating the quirky charms of Robyn Hitchcock and Echo & the Bunnymen, and he lacks the wit or the adventure of either artist. So, Ugly Beautiful often treads close to cutesy nostalgia, of all things, yet its saved by the sporadic surfacing of his song craft. Even in this radio-ready setting, “I Didn’t Want to Wake You Up” has a disquieting power, and “You’re Gorgeous” positively radiates with twisted sexuality. But the long, “ironic” jams and unfocused material that end the record suggest that instead of representing the first flowering of his full talent, Ugly Beautiful may be the peak of it.

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Old-timers such as Echo & the Bunnymen are reviving new wave, but on his first album, Baby Birds Stephen Jones has trumped them. Sounding like an updated version of a John Hughes film soundtrack, Ugly retains the portentous vocals of that ’80s band, but leavens them with a surreal, off-kilter wit and an endless supply of hooks.

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