''Beautiful'' is the third studio album by

The Reels The Reels was an Australian rock band which formed in Dubbo, New South Wales in 1976. It disbanded in 1991, and reformed in 2007. Its 1981 song " Quasimodo's Dream" was voted one of the top 10 Australian songs of all time by a 100-member panel ...

and was released in 1982 by special licence on the budget-priced

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label. The album was subsequently released on CD through

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(BPCD5038). The Reels had just split in two, following the recent shock departures of bass player Paul Abrahams and keyboardist Karen Ansell (lead keyboardist Colin Newman had previously left in mid '81), forcing remaining members David Mason, Craig Hooper and Stephan Fidock to work out other concepts; eventually, they decided to shuffle on as a trio and use a tape recorder for live work. Nonetheless, ''Beautiful'' was the Reels' most successful album to date, mainly covering Middle of the Road classics with a synthesiser feel. The single taken from it, "

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" gave the Reels their biggest hit in Australia, reaching #6 around November, 1982. The album was later certified gold. In 2012 it was remastered and reissued on Compact Disc by Liberation Music.

Track listing

Side One #"This Guy's in Love With You" (Bacharach-David) - 4:34 #"

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" (MacDonald-Salter) - 2:03 #" La Mer" (Trenet) - 3:18 #"Cry" (Mason-Fidock) - 3:16 #" (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" (

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) - 3:16 #"Prefab Heart" (Mason) - 3:18 Note: A slow-paced & melancholy version very different from that on the first album. Side Two #" True Love" (Porter) - 2:25 #"Electric & Musical Industries Ltd." - 2:27 #"Science Is Golden" (Mason) - 2:44 #"

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" (Allison-Allison) - 2:39 #"

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" (Mason-Reed) - 3:17 #"Return" (Mason-Hooper) - 4:16

Charts

References

1982 albums The Reels albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub