Baby Bird discography
Singles
- "Snake Caves" / "Lemonade Baby" (Gorgonzola Records, October 1995)
- "Drunk Car" (Easy! Tiger Records, July 1999)
Compilation tracks and guest appearances
- "Larry Bright" (on Mortal Wombat EP, Fierce Panda Records, October 1995)
- "Alan Ladd" (on Volume 15, Volume Records, February 1996)
- "Plastic Diamond" (with All Seeing I on Pickled Eggs and Sherbert, FFRR, September 1999)
Albums
- I Was Born a Man (Baby Bird Recordings, July 1995)
"I'll just say that
I Was Born A Man is the only record I've heard this year with lyrics worth remembering and music that's impossible to forget, because I'd rather you listen to it than me talking about it." -
Melody Maker"...whatever ultra-naff low-fidelity keyboard tinklings he undertakes; he carries with him incredibly touching pieces like Dead Bird Sings that create, in the middle of this tank top of a record, an altogether different kind of sadness." -
NME
- Bad Shave (Baby Bird Recordings, October 1995)
"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." -
Melody Maker
- Fatherhood (Baby Bird Recordings, December 1995)
"...a mixture of whimsy, egotism and madness with a good bit of talent stirred in...his puzzled world-view is unique. He fills the 20 tracks with strangenesses. Weirdly wonderful." -
The Guardian"Fatherhood is another unpredictable and magical journey through the thoughts of Stephen Jones, a man who is clearly in love with sweet melodies and the millions of ways you can fuck them up...you might find the whole experience as cigar-puffingly satisfying as becoming a dad." -
The Independent
- The Happiest Man Alive (Baby Bird Recordings, April 1996) #127
"...an oblique sadist of spectacular talent. The Happiest Man Alive has an entire central nervous system of its own. It's a Frankenstein's monster 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
- Dying Happy (Baby Bird Recordings, November 1996)
"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 Original Lo-Fi (Sanctuary Records, November 2002)
"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 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
Babybird discography
Singles
- "Goodnight" (Echo Records, June 1996) #28 UK
- "You're Gorgeous" (Echo Records, September 1996) #3 UK
- "Candy Girl" (Echo Records, February 1997) #14 UK
- "Cornershop" (Echo Records, May 1997) #37 UK
- "Bad Old Man" (Echo Records, April 1998) #31 UK
- "If You'll Be Mine" (Echo Records, July 1998) #28 UK
- "Back Together (remix)" (Echo Records, February 1999) #22 UK
- "The F-Word" (Echo Records, March 2000) #35 UK
- "Out of Sight" (Echo Records, May 2000) #58 UK
- "Getaway" / "Fireflies" (Animal Noise, September 2000)
- "Lighter N Spoon" (popup records Hamburg, April 2008)
Compilation tracks
- "Bad Twin" (on The Avengers OST, Atlantic Records, August 1998)
Albums
- Ugly Beautiful (Echo Records, October 1996) #9
- There's Something Going On (Echo Records, August 1998) #28
- Bugged (Echo Records, June 2000) #104
- Best of Babybird (Echo Records, February 2004)
- Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music (Echo Records, September 2006 and popup records Hamburg, February 2008)
Stephen Jones solo discography
Singles
- "Good Disease" (with Aim, Grand Central Records, June 2002)
- "Friend" (Sanctuary Records, June 2003)
Compilation tracks
- "We Make All the Flowers Grow" (with Luke Scott on Total Lee, a Tribute to Lee Hazelwood, City Slang Records, June 2002)
Film score
- Blessed (Warner Bros. Records, 2004)
Albums
- Stephen Jones 1985-2001 (Easy! Tiger Records, October 2001)
"This isn't the best introduction to Stephen Jones. Nonetheless, '1985-2001' is another interesting dispatch from the no-frills renaissance man." -
NME
- Almost Cured of Sadness (Sanctuary Records, March 2003)
"He was always an affecting songwriter as well as an extremely able band frontman, but it is these solo lo-fi tinkerings that really provide the keys to his soul. His latest LP is a delight, an effortless charmer on which the childlike sweetness of his voice perfectly serves 19 deceptively simple songs that together make a series of multi-textured gems." -
The Times
- Plastic Tablets (Delf Music, September 2003)
"This vast collection of poignant, evocative instrumental work - like soundtracks for imaginary movies — reminds you why there was so much fuss about him." -
Daily Telegraph
Stephen Jones fiction
- The Bad Book (IMP Fiction, London, March 2000)
"Veering imperiously between maudlin monochrome and exuberant technicolor, he proves as adept with narrative and metaphor as he is with choruses and couplets." -
The Times
- Travel Sickness (Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, September 2000)
"...maximalism at its most memorable and unnerving. Find it." - I-D Magazine
- Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (IMP Fiction, London, April 2003)
"Nightmarish and weird, but unsettlingly compelling" - BBC