Only the Names Have Been Changed

{{Use British English|date=March 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Only the Names Have Been Changed | type = studio | artist = Kelly Jones | cover = Onlythenames300.jpg | alt = | released = 26 March 2007 | recorded = 7–12 January 2007 | studio = | genre = Pop<ref name="indie" /> | length = 34:20 | label = V2 | producer = Jones & Jim Lowe | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Don't Let the Devil Take Another Day | next_year = 2020 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Contactmusic | rev1score = positive<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lai |first=Alex |title=Stereophonics – ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' Album Review |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/pages/kellyjonesx19x03x07 |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Contactmusic.com}}</ref> | rev2 = Indiecision | rev2score = B+<ref name="indie">{{Cite web |last=Ravi |first=Arjun S |date=19 April 2008 |title=Review: ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' – Kelly Jones |url=http://www.indiecision.com/2008/04/19/review-only-the-names-have-been-changed-kelly-jones/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403041054/http://www.indiecision.com/2008/04/19/review-only-the-names-have-been-changed-kelly-jones/ |archive-date=3 April 2010 |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Indiecision}}</ref> | rev3 = Mansized | rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jobling |first=John |date=26 March 2006 |title=Kelly Jones – ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' |work=Mansized |url=http://www.mansized.co.uk/reviews/review.phtml/541/668/ |url-status=dead |access-date=8 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204132/http://www.mansized.co.uk/reviews/review.phtml/541/668/ |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> | rev4 = ''NME'' | rev4score = 4/10<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smack |first=Eddie |date=23 February 2007 |title=Kelly Jones: ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/kelly-jones/8215 |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=NME}}</ref> }}

'''''Only the Names Have Been Changed''''' is the 2007 debut solo album by Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones.

==Background== 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 7 and 8 January and mastered by Friday the 12th... every song is a live take... we actively decided to make it a bit more filmic. In two days we 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''."{{cn|date=February 2024}}

Interviewed for ''The Guardian'' in 2013, Jones was asked if the names of the songs were named after his ex-girlfriends. He replied: "No. It started as a joke. I had two songs called Susie and Jane and said: "If we had another eight, we could call it Only the Names Have Been Changed." It went to No 1, I went out and got drunk and got caught peeing in the street in Camden. They gave me an £80 fine. That's my main memory."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/28/kelly-jones-stereophonics-interview |title=Kelly Jones: 'I got caught peeing in the street. They gave me an £80 fine' |first=Rich |last=Pelley |date=28 March 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' track listing | all_lyrics = | all_music = | total_length = 34:20 | title1 = Suzy | length1 = 5:07 | title2 = Rosie | length2 = 3:07 | title3 = Liberty | length3 = 4:04 | title4 = Katie | length4 = 3:37 | title5 = Violet | length5 = 1:54 | title6 = Jayne | length6 = 5:00 | title7 = Misty | length7 = 1:24 | title8 = Emily | length8 = 3:27 | title9 = Jean | length9 = 3:24 | title10 = Summer | length10 = 3:16 }}

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:2007 debut albums Category:Kelly Jones albums Category:V2 Records albums