The Beautiful Girls

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The Beautiful Girls

Background information
Origin	Australia
Genre(s)	Roots
Years active	2001 - present
Label(s)	Independent/MGM Distribution
Website	Official website
Members
Mat McHugh Clay McDonald Bruce Braybrooke

For other uses, see Beautiful Girls (disambiguation).

The Beautiful Girls is an Australian band, predominantly playing roots music. They have released one EP, Morning Sun, and two full length albums, Learn Yourself and We're Already Gone. This eclectic harmony of rock, reggae, pop and folk has drawn comparisons with Ben Harper, Jack Johnson and Mason Jennings.

1 Members
2 Discography
3 Awards and nominations
4 External links

[edit] Members

Mat McHugh - vocal, guitar
Clay McDonald - bass
Bruce Braybrooke - drums
Felipe - harmonica

[edit] Discography

	Morning Sun (2002) Periscopes, All I Need, Morning Sun, The Reason Is, Version, Big Mama's Door, On A Clear Day, A Million Miles This was the debut album, an independent release, distributed by MGM Distribution.
	Goodtimes (November 2002) Goodtimes, Water, All I Need (Slight Return), Everything Does, At The First Sign Of Trouble This CD is currently unavailable.
	Learn Yourself (September 2003) So It Seems, Music, Less, La Mar, High Rolling, Cash Money, Freedom (Part 2),* Blackbird, Learn Yourself, On Judgement Day Learn Yourself was the band's first full album. It consisted of blues, pop, reggae, roots and surf rock music.
	Black Bird (2003) - Blackbird, Leaving Here, Guns Of Brixton/Dub Be Good To Me, Periscopes (original dictaphone demo)
	The Weight Of The World (2004) Weight Of The World, Blackbird (Kuya's 6x4 Remix), Summer Time, I Need To Give This Broken Heart Away This 4 track CD was released with some remixes and unrealeased songs.
	We're Already Gone (2005) Side A: We’re Already gone, ...and we’ll Dance On The Ashes Of What’s Left, The Biggest Lie I Ever Told, Let’s Take The Long Way Home, Skipping Cracks, 655321 Side B: The Wrong Side Of Town, Girl, Lately Things Have Been Changing, When I Had You With Me, Shot Down, No Wrong No Right With this release, the band leaves their founding in blues and roots music, and moves to stronger reggae sound and darker themes.
	Water (2006) Periscopes, Morning Sun, On a Clear Day, Goodtimes, Water, At the First Sign of Trouble, Music, La Mar, Freedom, Weight of the World, Need to Give This Broken Heart Away This is a compilation album.

[edit] Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards of 2005 - Nominated, Best Blues & Roots Album
J Award 2005 - Nominated
Triple J Hottest 100, 2003 - #41 ("Blackbird") and #62 ("Music"); Triple J Hottest 100, 2005 #68 ("...And We'll Dance on the Ashes of What's Left") and #81 ("Let's Take the Long Way Home")