Beautiful View is the seventh
studio album released by
Australian singer
Wendy Matthews
Wendy Joan Matthews (born 13 January 1960) is a Canadian-born Australian singer-songwriter who has been a member of Models and Absent Friends and is a solo artist. She released Top 20 hit singles in the 1990s including " Token Angels", " ...
released by
BMG in Australia on 7 May 2001. It yielded three singles "Free", "Beautiful View" and "Like the Sun".
Matthews wrote the majority of the album on the north coast of
New South Wales, Australia
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. She chose the name "Beautiful View" for the album because she wanted to "link it
he albumto this special place where I can look to the islands in winter and watch the whales frolicking in the ocean."
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Track listing
# "Like the Sun" (Matthews, R. Reid, Michael Szumowski) – 4:16
# "Free" (S. Peiken, G. Wells) – 3:54
# "Beautiful View" (
Greg Arnold, Cameron McKenzie) – 2:57
# "Hollow Boy" (Matthews, Reid, Szumowski) – 4:08
# "Roll Away the Stone" (Matthews, Reid, Szumowski) – 3:28
# "No Vacancy" (Matthews, G. Skinner) – 4:27
# "Maybe" – 3:52
# "Right Now" – 3:38
# "Waiting" (Mark Duffy) – 4:17
# "Unravelling" – 4:45
# "My Boy Before" (
Paul Kelly, Matthews, Szumowski) – 4:27
;Bonus CD
# "I've Got to Have You" (3AM mix) – 4:14
# "These Streets" (Sorry's mix) – 5:02
# "Day by Day" (Last Suppers mix) – 4:56
# "If Only I Could" (Timebomb mix) – 5:45
# "Beautiful View" (View from Ashfield mix) – 4:32
Charts
References
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2001 albums
Wendy Matthews albums