Bad Shave

Infobox Album | Name = Bad Shave
Type = Album
Artist = Baby Bird


Released = October 1995 (UK)

Recorded = 1990s
Genre = Lo-fi/Indie
Length = 49:53
Label = Baby Bird Recordings
Producer = Stephen Jones
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2r61mpnf9ffo link]
Last album = "I Was Born a Man"
(1995)
This album = "Bad Shave"
(1995)
Next album = "Fatherhood"
(1995)

"Bad Shave" was the second 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".

Track listing

#"KW Jesus TV Roof Appeal"
#"Bad Jazz"
#"Too Handsome To Be Homeless"
#"Steam Train"
#"Bad Shave"
#"Oh My God You're A King"
#"The Restaurant Is Guilty"
#"Valerie"
#"Shop Girl"
#"W.B.T."
#"Hate Song"
#"45 & Fat"
#"Sha Na Na"
#"Bug In A Breeze"
#"It's Okay"
#"Happy Bus"
#"Swinging From Tree To Tree"

* A version of the album released as part of "The Original Lo-Fi" contains the additional tracks "Past Lasts Longer" and "Why?".

Reviews

"...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