Released September 2000

Tracks

1.Fireflies (3.43)
2.Getaway (5.02)
3.Bad Habit (4.17)
4.To Die For (3.19)
5.First Man on the Sun (Mark Gamble Remix) (5.02)
Total Playing Length: 21.23)

Catalogue Number:

UK CD: anicd110
Limited edition EP released on Animal Noise Records

Credits:

Producer: Luke Scott (tracks: 1 to 4), Matt Hay (tracks: 1 to 4), Stephen Jones

Selected tracks

Babybird - To Die For [ 3:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup

Babybird - Bad Habit [ 4:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup

Note:

Accordingly, this release was the prime cause of the split between Babybird and Echo as the label management somehow could not find time in their schedule to fit in this third single carrying two tracks from Bugged. So this split brings us this 5 track EP – the format itself a welcome pleasure after an atrocious era of 3 track singles to fit the UK charts and to bugger fan-economy and fragment coherence between the extra tracks (i.e. go and buy the 4-5 track Euro-singles instead).

Anyway, as the title implies this disc contains two songs from Bugged; the uncanny but novel childishness of Fireflies and the more typical over-produced, thunderous ballad of Getaway. The real treat here, though, is Bad Habit. A bloody depressed semi-acoustic song of a sexual relationship going to hell (January 5, 1999/You get into your side/I get into mine). Who ever said that Babybird cheered up in 2000?

To Die For is yet another distinctive Jones balled – nice but merely done on routine. The Mark Gamble remix of First Man on the Sun is a kind of post-jungle with dispersed beats and loopy and fragmented vocal samples. Not for all tastes…

But still this a nice collection of songs. If not only for Bad Habit, then at least for the EP format.

Bad Habit

January 25, 1999
You get into your side,
I get into mine
It’s one thing that we’ve done
For I don’t know how long
I just can’t find the soft side
This bed just feels all wrong

It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have

Pull the curtains open
Under the sheets I drown
All this fucking sunshine
In fucking London Town
We were standing there together, 1999
You got into your side,
And I got into mine

It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have

It’s now the day after January 25
Remember all the one-night stands
That kept us half alive
But we just can’t feel it
That huddling up survive
Wish you’d kicked me out of bed in 1995

But we just can’t feel it
That huddling up survive
Wish you’d kept me in your bed in 1995
But we just can’t feel it
But we just can’t feel it

It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have
It’s such a bad bad habit we have

All singles:

■ Cokeholes (2008) | ■ Lighter ‘n’ Spoon (2008) | ■ Too/Much/Dive (2006) | ■ Friend (2002) | ■ Double A EP (2000)  | ■ Out of Sight (2000) | ■ The F-Word (2000) | ■ Back Together (remix) (1999) | ■ If You’ll Be Mine (1998) | ■ Bad Old Man (1998) | ■ Cornershop (1997) | ■ Candy Girl (1997) | ■ You’re Gorgeous (1996) | ■ Goodnight (1996)