"Calling All Angels" | ||||
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Released | April 14, 2003 | |||
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Label | Columbia | |||
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Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien | |||
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"Calling All Angels" on YouTube |
"Calling All Angels" is a song by American rock band Train. It was included on the band's third studio album, My Private Nation ,and produced by Brendan O'Brien. On April 14,2003,the song was the first single to be released from My Private Nation,peaking at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topping three other Billboard charts:the Adult Contemporary,Adult Top 40,and Triple-A listings. Outside the US,the song entered the top 40 in Australia and New Zealand.
"Calling All Angels" was inspired by a conversation singer Pat Monahan had with his therapist. Monahan said,"She said,"Just remember that we are made up of angels and traitors,and the angel is the one that says,'You're beautiful and you can do anything you want,' and the traitor is the one that says,'You're ugly and you can't get anything right.'" And so that song just came from that conversation of,if we all called our angels,what a cool life this would be for all of us." [1]
The song received mixed reviews from rock critics,with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly giving the song a B+ and calling it "an anthemic hymn to commitment...that builds steadily to a gloriously clanging climax." [2] Matt Lee of the BBC was less impressed,describing the track as "pedestrian,the vocals soulless,even more so than" the band's biggest hit single,"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)". [3]
The recording was nominated for two Grammy Awards at the ceremony held in February 2004. In the category Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group,it lost out to "Disorder in the House" by Bruce Springsteen and Warren Zevon. In the category Best Rock Song,the winner was "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes. [4]
European CD single [5]
European maxi-CD single [6]
Australian CD single [7]
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [22] | 2×Platinum | 2,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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United States | April 14,2003 | Columbia | [23] | |
Australia | May 26,2003 | CD | [24] | |
United States | June 9,2003 | Adult contemporary radio | [25] | |
United Kingdom | July 14,2003 | CD | [26] |
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"Calling All Angels" is an unofficial anthem of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team,and is played at Angel Stadium before every game while the video screen shows a montage of the team's history. In addition,the band performed it live prior to the Home Run Derby of the 2010 All-Star Game,which was held at Angel Stadium.[ citation needed ]
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