Only the Names Have Been Changed put down 10 tracks with 10 different girls names…we wanted to do something in the vein of Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads" or Johnny Cash's "Blood, Sweat and Tears". Only the Names Have Been Changed Only the Names Have Been Changed is the solo debut album by Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones. As Jones explains, "we were recording the sixth Stereophonics album...and in-between takes I started doing these songs off the cuff. Three or four tracks in I realised that this could actually be something…strange how it's always little things that makes big things happen. We didn't wait - it was recorded
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... of time it took Arrested Development to get a record contract. "3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of..." was released to widespread critical acclaim and was later voted as the best album of the year in "The Village Voice"s Pazz & Jop critics' poll. "Entertainment Weekly"'s James Bernard praised it as a "fresh-sounding debut album" and referred to Arrested Development as "the anti-gangsta" and "perhaps rap's most self-reflective act." Greg Kot of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote that the group "displays unusual worldliness, wisdom and awareness on its debut, immediately establishing itself as a major new voice