Ordinary Angels
| "Ordinary Angels" | ||||
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| Single by Frente! | ||||
| from the album Marvin the Album | ||||
| Released | 1993 | |||
| Length | 2:37 | |||
| Label | Mammoth, Mushroom | |||
| Songwriter(s) | A Hart, S Austin | |||
| Producer(s) | Daniel Denholm | |||
| Frente! singles chronology | ||||
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"Ordinary Angels" is a song by Australian
ARIA Singles Chart in 1992.[1] "Ordinary Angels" was released in North America and Europe in 1993 and was included on their first full-length album Marvin the Album. The song won the Breakthrough Artist – Single category at the ARIA Music Awards of 1993.[2]
Background
According to Angie Hart, 'Ordinary Angels' was written in a day. "We'd flown to Sydney to meet with (record label) RooArt who were courting us with a demo deal. We stupidly offered them a brand-new song as a sweetener, thinking it would make things more solid. Of course we hadn't written it yet. We had nothing and Simon and I were devastated. We were both exhausted and despondent and through sobs, the first lines of the song emerged. It stacked like a puzzle, word by word, chord by chord. It is still one of my favourites to this day."[3]
Track listings
European CD single
- "Ordinary Angels" (A Hart, S Austin) – 2:37
- "Book Song" (S Austin) – 2:39
- "Seamless" (M Picton) – 2:59
- "Nadi" (A Hart) – 0:34
North American CD single
- "Ordinary Angels" – 2:51
- "Most Beautiful" (acoustic version) – 2:32
- "Ordinary Angels" (acoustic version) – 2:41
- "Accidently Kelly Street" (acoustic version) – 3:18
1994 CD remixes
- "Ordinary Angels" – 2:48
- "Ordinary Angels" (7-inch remix) – 2:48
- "Ordinary Angels" (Ayonarra mix) – 2:52
References
- ^ "Frente! – Clunk (EP)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Winners by Year 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ Gazzo, Jane (2022). Sound as Ever - The Greatest Decade in Australian Music 1990-1999. Melbourne Books. p. 51.