Breakfast with Girls

Breakfast with Girls is the third studio album by the American pop rock band Self, released on July 13, 1999, by DreamWorks Records and Spongebath Records, and is the band's only album released on DreamWorks. Its songs were mainly written and composed by Matt Mahaffey, the band's lead member. The album prominently maintains a power pop/art rock soundscape with elements of hip-hop and jazz. Three singles supported it; the first, "Paint by Numbers", received a nomination for Song of the Year from the Nashville Music Association Awards, while the third, "Meg Ryan", was the album's major single.

Mahaffey wrote a majority of the album based upon his life, and general discontentment at the major music industry's treatment of himself and his band. A concept album, it follows a young man in his 20s as he struggles to deal with his abusive girlfriend, a smoking addiction, and a difficulty managing his finances whilst being disillusioned. Upon release, Breakfast with Girls received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its inventiveness but critiqued its complexity. Retrospective reviews have been more positive. It peaked at number eighteen on the CMJ Top 200 chart, the band's best-known performance at the time, later beaten by their fourth studio album Gizmodgery (2000).