Ordinary Angels

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"Ordinary Angels"
Ordinary Angels by Frente!.jpg
Single by Frente!
from the album Marvin the Album
Released1993
Length2:37
Label Mammoth, Mushroom
Songwriter(s) A Hart, S Austin
Producer(s) Daniel Denholm
Frente! singles chronology
"No Time"
(1993)		"Ordinary Angels"
(1993)		"Lonely"
(1994)

"Ordinary Angels" is a song by Australian indie pop group Frente!. The song was not released as a single in Australia but was included on the Clunk EP, which peaked at number three on the 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]

Contents

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

  1. "Ordinary Angels" (A Hart, S Austin) – 2:37
  2. "Book Song" (S Austin) – 2:39
  3. "Seamless" (M Picton) – 2:59
  4. "Nadi" (A Hart) – 0:34

North American CD single

  1. "Ordinary Angels" – 2:51
  2. "Most Beautiful" (acoustic version) – 2:32
  3. "Ordinary Angels" (acoustic version) – 2:41
  4. "Accidently Kelly Street" (acoustic version) – 3:18

1994 CD remixes

  1. "Ordinary Angels" – 2:48
  2. "Ordinary Angels" (7-inch remix) – 2:48
  3. "Ordinary Angels" (Ayonarra mix) – 2:52

References

  1. ↑ "Frente! – Clunk (EP)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Winners by Year 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Gazzo, Jane (2022). Sound as Ever - The Greatest Decade in Australian Music 1990-1999. Melbourne Books. p. 51.
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