The Happiest Man Alive

Infobox Album | Name = The Happiest Man Alive
Type = Album
Artist = Baby Bird


Released = April 1996 (UK)
Recorded = 1990s
Genre = Lo-fi/Indie
Length = 60:09
Label = Baby Bird Recordings
Producer = Stephen Jones
Last album = "Fatherhood"
(1995)
This album = "The Happiest Man Alive"
(1996)
Next album = "Dying Happy"
(1996)

"The Happiest Man Alive" was the fourth of five albums of home-made recordings, released by Stephen Jones under the name "Baby Bird" in 1995.

It was originally a limited edition release, but is now available as part of the 2002 CD box set "The Original Lo-Fi".

The album includes a version of the song "Candy Girl", subsequently a UK top-ten hit for Jones' band Babybird (written as one word).

Track listing

#"Razorblade Shower"
#"Sundial In A Tunnel"
#"Little White Man"
#"Halfway Up The Hill"
#"Horsesugar"
#"Please Don't Be Famous"
#"Louise"
#"Copper Feel"
#"Seagullably"
#"Dead In Love"
#"Candy Girl"
#"Gunfingers"
#"Married"
#"In The Country"
#"Planecrash Xmas"
#"This Beautiful Disease"
#"You'll Get A Slap"
#"In The Morning"

Reviews

"...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