{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = 2 Nice Girls | type = Album | artist = Two Nice Girls | cover = File:2NiceGirls_ST1989.jpg | alt = | released = 1989 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country rock | length = 48:00 | label = Rough Trade | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Like a Version | next_year = 1990 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Hi-Fi News & Record Review'' | rev1Score = A:1/2<ref name="HiFiReview">{{cite news|last=|first=|authorlink=|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Hi-Fi-News/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1989-09.pdf|title=Review: Two Nice Girls — 2 Nice Girls|work=Hi-Fi News & Record Review|type=magazine|date=September 1989|volume=34|issue=9|access-date=2 September 2021|page=105|location=Croydon|publisher=Link House Magazines Ltd|via=World Radio History|issn=0142-6230|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902191056/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Hi-Fi-News/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1989-09.pdf|archive-date=2 September 2021}}</ref> }} '''''2 Nice Girls''''' was the self-titled debut album of Two Nice Girls, released on Rough Trade Records in 1989.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Racine |first1=Marty |title=Records |work=Houston Chronicle |date=May 7, 1989 |department=Zest |page=13}}</ref> This album contains the track "I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control & Beer)" which gained the group some commercial success. The album also features the track "Sweet Jane (With Affection)" that combines The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" with Joan Armatrading's "Love and Affection".<ref>[http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=two_nice_girls "Two Nice Girls"], ''Trouser Press'' (accessed July 18, 2018).</ref>
The album was re-released in 2007 and received a 4-star review from the ''Austin Chronicle''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beets |first1=Greg |title=Two Nice Girls |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2007-06-22/494071/ |website=Austin Chronicle |accessdate=9 October 2018 |date=22 June 2007}}</ref>
==Track listing== #The Sweet Postcard (Barbara Hofrenning/Gretchen Phillips) #Follow Me (Jane Siberry) #Goons (Phillips) #Money (Laurie Freelove) #I Spent My Last $10 On Birth Control & Beer (Phillips) #Sweet Jane (With Affection) (L. Reed/J. Armatrading) #My Heart Crawls Off (Phillips/Sara Hickman) #Looking Out (Freelove) #Heaven On Earth (Freelove) #Kick (Freelove) #The Holland Song (Kathy Korniloff) #Getting Close (CD reissue bonus track) #Cristi's Song (CD reissue bonus track)
"The Holland Song" was omitted from initial vinyl and cassette releases save for the UK release; all CD releases of the album reinstate it as the closing track.
==Personnel== *Gretchen Phillips – guitar, bass, mandolin & vocals *Kathy Korniloff – guitar, bass, violin, percussion & vocals *Laurie Freelove – guitar, bass, percussion & vocals
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Category:1989 debut albums Category:Two Nice Girls albums Category:Rough Trade Records albums