- ReleaseProduct
- Half Baked (2026 Remaster)
- Artist
- Jimmy Campbell
- Label
- Think Like A Key Music
- Catalogue Number
- TLAK1238
- Release Date
- May 29, 2026
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CD
Pre-order $13.00The "Should've Been Huge" CD Edition
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- Deluxe digipak with 20-page booklet featuring new liner notes by Matthew Loughlin-Day and Mark A. Johnston
- 8 bonus tracks with previously unreleased radio sessions
- Exclusive Prof. Stoned remaster
- Limited one-time pressing
Estimated release date: May 29, 2026
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In any sane world, this album would sit alongside Odessey & Oracle and Village Green. Instead, it sat in the bargain bin. The world wasn't sane in 1970 either.
Jimmy Campbell walked into Trident Studios with Billy Kinsley, Tony Crane, Joey Molland, and songs so painfully honest they made Lennon's confessionals sound like small talk. Half Baked married devastating lyrics to lush orchestration by Nick Ryan and Donald Fraser — swinging from Lennon-meets-Spector rock ("So Lonely Without You") to the near-unbearable, Brel-like crescendo of "Don't Leave Me Now," recorded with Campbell singing in the studio bathroom to capture the echo. Vertigo got behind it. Simon Dee called the single one of the strongest tracks he'd ever heard, then got sacked the day before Campbell was due on his show. The Ramones became fans. The charts didn't get the memo.
Nothing half baked about it. Never was.
- 1 Green Eyed American Actress 2:47
- 2 Loving You Is All I Do 3:16
- 3 So Lonely Without You 2:55
- 4 In My Room 4:21
- 5 That's Right, That's Me 3:51
- 6 I Will Not Mind 3:21
- 7 Dulcie (It's December) 2:48
- 8 Forever Grateful 2:35
- 9 Half Baked 4:40
- 10 Closing Down The Shop 2:38