Full Discography for "Better Than The Book"

Better Than The Book! A musical project by Nick Standing AKA Jabun. Heartfelt and high energy Ska / Pop Punk slices of life from a guy born in the 90s.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bttb_uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BetterThanTheBookUK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTTB_UK
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBTTBMusic
Bandcamp: https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

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Better Than The Book [Full Discography]

A playlist of finished songs, remixes, collabs and instrumentals awaiting their vocal parts

Finished Songs, demos and Instrumentals

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

An ambient glitchy electronic track for the love of my life Eva. Please support me by downloading the track so I can buy more train tickets to visit her XD Hope you enjoy it!

Distance

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

My first track for myself in 11 months, and almost a year with my loving girlfriend, Eva. It feels like I'm home again.

The background for the album art was cropped from a picture my mum took in the garden of our family home.

Home

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding
PayPal Tip Jar: https://paypal.me/NickStanding

Purchase the “Side Character In My Own Life” and “Side Character In My Own Life (Instrumentals)” albums on Bandcamp:
https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

And get CDs and Vinyls on ElasticStage:
https://elasticstage.com/betterthanthebookuk

Better Than The Book - Side Character In My Own Life (Instrumentals)

01 - 2020 Was A Write-off, But What Comes Next? (Instrumental)
02 - Side Character In My Own Life (Instrumental)
03 - Mood Swings (Instrumental)
04 - Red Kite (Instrumental)
05 - Rewrite (Instrumental)
06 - Don't Be Too Hard On Yourself (Instrumental)
07 - Hold Me Tight (Instrumental)
08 - Bump In The Night (Instrumental)
09 - Plot Holes (Instrumental)
10 - You'll Never Be Too Old For This (Instrumental)
Bonus Tracks
11 - Hearts Racing Backwards (Instrumental)
12 - Plot Holes (Alternative Version) (Instrumental)
13 - Hold Me Tight (Non-Acoustic) (Instrumental)
14 - Side Character In My Own Life (Acoustic) (Instrumental)
+ Additional Radio Edits for Tracks 07, 08, 09 & 10 

Written, performed and produced by Nick Standing [Jabun]
Recorded, mixed and mastered at JabunAudio by Nick Standing [Jabun]
Artwork, images and photography by Nick Standing [Jabun]

No generative A.I. tools were used in the creation of this album.

For full original album credits, special thanks and descriptions please visit the Better Than The Book - Side Character In My Own Life Bandcamp page:
https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/album/side-character-in-my-own-life

Follow Better Than The Book and Nick Standing / JabunAudio for more music:
https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/
https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding
https://www.youtube.com/@JabunAudio
https://www.facebook.com/BetterThanTheBookUK
https://betterthanthebookuk.weebly.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GUCmKQoIk3bNWGiXDGkrp

Copyright Better Than The Book 2025

Side Character In My Own Life (Instrumentals)

2020 Was A Write-off, But What Comes Next? (Instrumental)

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Better Than The Book - One Small Step EP 

01  - Intro [Just A Step]
02 - Leaving Home [Paper Planes and Bottled Ships]
03 - Watching Airships
04 - Woof Woof, Nag Nag [Ft. Andy Forman]
05 - Backseat Phobia

Written, performed, produced, and drawn by Nick Standing [Jabun] 
Guitars and Backing Vocals in “Woof Woof, Nag Nag” - Andy Forman 
Gang Vocals provided with help of Andy Forman 
Additional Gang Vocals in “Leaving Home” provided by Eamon, Jasmine and Alix 
Special Thanks to Martin for help in the mastering process 

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BetterThanTheBookUK
https://twitter.com/BTTB_UK
https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBTTBMusic

Backseat Phobia

Woof Woof, Nag Nag [Ft. Andy Forman]

Watching Airships

Leaving Home [Paper Planes and Bottled Ships]

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

etter Than The Book - One Small Step EP 

01  - Intro [Just A Step]
02 - Leaving Home [Paper Planes and Bottled Ships]
03 - Watching Airships
04 - Woof Woof, Nag Nag [Ft. Andy Forman]
05 - Backseat Phobia

Written, performed, produced, and drawn by Nick Standing [Jabun] 
Guitars and Backing Vocals in “Woof Woof, Nag Nag” - Andy Forman 
Gang Vocals provided with help of Andy Forman 
Additional Gang Vocals in “Leaving Home” provided by Eamon, Jasmine and Alix 
Special Thanks to Martin for help in the mastering process 

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BetterThanTheBookUK
https://twitter.com/BTTB_UK
https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBTTBMusic

Intro [Just A Step]

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

My first electronic music track. So much fun to make! I'll put this up on youtube once i've found a suitable picture. Chillstep for all! Get ready guys; I hope to be doing more of this kinda thing soon.

Feel free to support me by donating and downloading the track on Bandcamp (it is free if you want too :3):

http://jabun.bandcamp.com/track/bergamot

Enjoy!

Bergamot - Chillstep [Download link in description]

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Here be my entry for the Diamond Eyes - Nine Fifteen Remix competition. I think this some of my best sound design/electronic production EVER!!! Good luck to everyone else in the competition. I'm hoping to blow some minds with this one XD Enjoy loud!

Diamond Eyes - Nine Fifteen Ft. Jess (Jabun Remix)

Nick is creating music on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Another chillstep track - Apollo. This is the first electronic track with my own vocals in. The drums were programmed fingerstyle with my trigger finger. Enjoy

Apollo [Free download in Buy Link]

Heartfelt and high energy UK #Skapunk / #Poppunk slices of life from some guy born in the 90s. A musical project by Nick Standing AKA Jabun.

For my other project https://soundcloud.com/jabun and JabunAudio work, please visit the links above or below for a whole plethora of different flavours of music!