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Infobox Album | | Name = This Beautiful Mess| Type = Album | Artist = Sixpence None the Richer | Cover = Sixpence None the Richer - This Beautiful Mess.jpg| Released = April 18, 1995| Recorded =| Genre = Pop rock , Christian rock | Length = 49:39| Label = R.E.X. Records|R.E.X. | Producer = Armand John Petri || Last album = The Fatherless & the Widow (1994)| This album = This Beautiful Mess (1995)| Next album = Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1996)Album ratings|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = Rating|2.5|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r302617/review|pure_url=yes Allmusic review This Beautiful Mess is the second album by United States|American band Sixpence None the Richer , released in 1995 (see 1995 in music ). The recording was produced by Armand John Petri , who also managed the band from 1993 to 1997. This Beautiful Mess surpassed 50,000 copies sold during its first year of release and laid the foundation for Sixpence None the Richer (album)|Sixpence's self-titled breakout album two years later. This Beautiful Mess won the 1996 Dove Award for "Alternative/Modern Rock Album of the Year."
Within a couple years of the album's release, two eventually significant rock bands formed under the moniker "This Beautiful Mess." The first originated in Colorado Springs, Co in 1996 and went on to become the platinum-selling act OneRepublic .cite web|last=Freedman |first=Pete |url= http://www.csindy.com/colorado/one-love/Content? oid=1141204 |title=One Love: Who the Hell is OneRepublic? And What's This About Them Being from the Springs? |publisher= Colorado Springs Independent |date=2007-12-13 |accessdate=2010-04-08 The second, formed in 1997, is the Dutch rock quintet from the Netherlands which continues making music under the same name.cite web|last=Stimp |first=Jake |url= http://www.theblahblah.net/? p=76 |title=This Beautiful Mess—Beautiful and Messy |publisher= The Blah Blah |date=2007-11-19 |accessdate=2010-04-08
"This Beautiful Mess" is also used as the title of author http://www.rickmckinley.net/wp/2009/09/12/this-beautiful-mess/ Rick McKinley's 2006 treatise on personal and social transformation. The book's forward was written by million-selling author Don Miller (author)|Donald Miller , who is set to film the movie http://www.bluelikejazzthemovie.com/ Blue Like Jazz with Sixpence None the Richer producer Steve Taylor directing.cite web|last=MacCorkle|first=Laura |url= http://www.crosswalk.com/books/11608360/ |title=Donald Miller: Writing His Own Life Story |publisher= Crosswalk.com |date=2009-10 |accessdate=2010-04-08