I Wish We All Could Win

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I Wish We All Could Win
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2005
Recorded2004
StudioBlueberry Hill Studios, Glorified Mono Studios and Oxford Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Christian rock
Length41:30 [1]
Label INO/Epic
Producer
The Afters chronology
When the World Is Wonderful
(2001)
I Wish We All Could Win
(2005)
Never Going Back to OK
(2008)

I Wish We All Could Win is the debut album from the Christian rock band the Afters. The album contains their Dove Award-nominated hit single "Beautiful Love". The album is notable for having two tracks on it used as theme songs. The aforementioned Beautiful Love was used for the MTV reality series "8th and Ocean" while the track "Until The World" was used as the theme song to the ABC Family drama Beautiful People. "You", "All That I Am", and "Someday" all charted on Billboard's Christian Songs chart. [2]

Contents

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Jesus Freak HideoutStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Christianity Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]

The website Soul Purpose remarked in their review: "The Afters display talent belying their short existence. ... engag[ing] the listener on a personal journey. A glimpse of the soul is rare indeed [but] the Afters debut effortlessly captures that." More often than not, critics have approved of the soulful pop rock the Afters deliver on this disc, regardless of its more overt religious themes.

Jesus Freak Hideout gave the album 4½ stars out of 5 commenting that "the Afters' approach to worship is a classy and thoughtful one." [1] ChristianityToday.com gave the album 3½ stars out of 5 and added that it effectively "manage[s] to straddle the fence between what Christian and mainstream radio is willing to play." [4] AllMusic gave the album 3½ stars out of 5.

Track listing

All tracks are written by the Afters.

Album release
No.TitleLength
1."Beautiful Love"3:58
2."Until the World"4:18
3."Someday"3:31
4."Love Lead Me On"4:28
5."All That I Am"4:24
6."The Way You Are"3:43
7."You"4:00
8."Love Will Make You Beautiful"4:41
9."Wait"3:13
10."Thank God I'm Not the One"5:10
Total length:41:26

Personnel

The Afters

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Album

Singles

YearTitleChart positions
US Adult
Top 40
[6]
US
Digital
[6]
US
Pop
[6]
US
Hot 100
[6]
US
Christ
[2]
2005"Beautiful Love"2923435537
2005"You"4
2006"All That I Am"13
2006"Someday"25

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Afters, I Wish We All Could Win Review" . Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "The Afters chart history". Billboard . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  3. I Wish We All Could Win at AllMusic
  4. 1 2 ChristianityToday.com review of the Afters - I Wish We All Could Win
  5. 1 2 "Albums chart peaks". Billboard. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Billboard charts". AllMusic . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  7. 37th Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominations & Winners Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine on About.com; Jones, Kim