Ugly Beautiful [Import]

ugly beautiful [import]

Track Listings
1. Goodnight
2. Candy Girl
3. Jesus Is My Girlfriend
4. I Didn't Want to Wake You Up
5. Dead Bird Sings
6. Atomic Soda
7. You're Gorgeous
8. Bad Shave
9. Cornershop
10. King Bing - Baby Bird,
11. You and Me - Baby Bird,
12. 45 and Fat - Baby Bird,
13. Handsome to Be Homeless - Baby Bird,
14. July
15. Baby Bird

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Think of Morrissey fronting Prefab Sprout by way of the Go-Betweens, and you're in the game with New Zealander Stephen Jones. His six-year bedsit gestation period, neatly documented in recent months via three Handsome Boy reissues, suggested a pop maestro in the raw. Here he takes wing with a trio of supple, lyrically ripe U.K. hits ("You're Gorgeous," "Goodnight," "Candy Girl"), plus some sharp remakes of older material ("Dead Bird Sings," the uncanny Blue Nile imitation, "Bad Shave"). Tunefully addictive stuff from a pop original. --Jeff Bateman

Product Description
15 of the best tracks from Stephen Jones first four lo-fi albums, including the singles 'You're Gorgeous', 'Candy Girl' & 'Good Night'. 1996 release on Echo.

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Ugly Beautiful [Import]
Ugly Beautiful
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Gorgeous
  • Ugly Beautiful Says It All
  • sexy & creepy & just plain good pop
  • Ugly Is Beautiful
  • Another One Out of the Ordinary
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Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024NPF
Release Date: 2002-10-01

Tracks:

  1. Goodnight
  2. Candy Girl
  3. Jesus Is My Girlfriend
  4. I Didn't Want to Wake You Up
  5. Dead Bird Sings
  6. Atomic Soda
  7. You're Gorgeous
  8. Bad Shave
  9. Cornershop
  10. King Bing - Baby Bird,
  11. You and Me - Baby Bird,
  12. 45 and Fat - Baby Bird,
  13. Handsome to Be Homeless - Baby Bird,
  14. July
  15. Baby Bird

Amazon.com

Think of Morrissey fronting Prefab Sprout by way of the Go-Betweens, and you're in the game with New Zealander Stephen Jones. His six-year bedsit gestation period, neatly documented in recent months via three Handsome Boy reissues, suggested a pop maestro in the raw. Here he takes wing with a trio of supple, lyrically ripe U.K. hits ("You're Gorgeous," "Goodnight," "Candy Girl"), plus some sharp remakes of older material ("Dead Bird Sings," the uncanny Blue Nile imitation, "Bad Shave"). Tunefully addictive stuff from a pop original. --Jeff Bateman

Album Description

15 of the best tracks from Stephen Jones first four lo-fi albums, including the singles 'You're Gorgeous', 'Candy Girl' & 'Good Night'. 1996 release on Echo.

Album Details

European Pressing which Includes an Alternate Version of 'bad Shave' which Did Not Appear on the USA Version. Also Includes the 10 Minute Bonus Track 'king Bing'

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Gorgeous.......2004-06-11

I first heard You're Gorgeous on the radio in the office. As soon as I heard the first line of the first verse I grabbed my pen and waited for the DJ to tell me who it was. My immediate reaction was Echo and The Bunnymen meets U2 with a splash catchy infection to top it off. Once I had Baby Bird scrawled on my memo pad I rushed out to HMV and bought the album.

Every song was great. The highly addictive riff of Candy Girl underlined the U2 - Edge influence which was a positive thing. I fell in love with the oboe on Deadbird Sings, laughed my head off at Jesus Is My Girlfriend and drowned happily in 45 And Fat. Of course, You're Gorgeous stayed infectious and still is to this day despite all the TV advertising overkill - they are seriously using it for baby's nappies now!!! Oh ek!

Somethings Going On was in the same league without the splash of catchy. Back Together is truely amazing. I havent heard any of the low-fi stuff (except Shop Girl - hilarious) but am wondering whether its worth splashing out on the box set.

I'd love to see him play live and eagerly await some new material.

cheers

4 out of 5 stars Ugly Beautiful Says It All.......2002-12-31

There is some very distasteful and disquieting stuff here -- start with the insert cover which may be a toe-tagged corpse, follow that with the blasphemous-to-some Jesus Is My Girlfriend and Bad Shave, and then I Didn't Want to Wake You Up (not that he could have because the object of the song is quite dead, thank you). You get the idea. A couple other cuts miss; Atomic Soda in particular seems endless. I just hit the skip button for them and doing so still leaves eight or nine wonderful pop songs, twisted pop in a couple cases (Candy Girl and You're Gorgeous) but tuneful hooks and singable choruses abound. The CD closes with two wonderful bittersweet love songs, July and Baby Bird, pushing you out of this odd CD with a lingering taste of sweetness and, yes, innocence.

5 out of 5 stars sexy & creepy & just plain good pop.......2001-07-25

babybird is amazing. excellent songwriting, excellent voice. it's, as i said, sexy & creepy, but also bouyant & uplifting. "45 & fat" will get stuck in your head for weeks.

5 out of 5 stars Ugly Is Beautiful.......2000-12-02

More of a greatest hits than an album proper, Ugly Beautiful pulls songs from several of BB's indie releases for his major labor debut. It's fairly out there, some in England thought that I Didn't Want to Wake You Up was about murder or necrophilia (though I don't). BB has been compared to Echo and The Bunnymen, Robyn Hitchcock and The Smiths. He's mournful and a little low key. Still, I recommend it highly.

5 out of 5 stars Another One Out of the Ordinary.......2000-07-14

These songs, especially "You're Gorgeous" and "Candy Girl" have a great nostalgic value to me, yet that is only possible because they are good enough to be remembered for a long time.

When I first got my "Ugly Beautiful" CD, it was disturbing to see all that blood and grime on the sleeve, but it's what's inside that counts, isn't it? Aside from the aforementioned two tracks, the rest of the album is a little less appropriate for mainstream charts, but that's probably good -- you see what those lads are really all about.

The vocals are memorable, and the tunes will stick in your head. That's probably all you need to know.

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