Ordinary Angels

{{Short description|1993 single by Frente!}}

{{For|the film|Ordinary Angels (film)}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Ordinary Angels

| cover = Ordinary_Angels_by_Frente!.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Frente!

| album = Marvin the Album

| released = 1993

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| length = 2:37

| label = Mammoth, Mushroom

| writer = A Hart, S Austin

| producer = Daniel Denholm

| prev_title = No Time

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Lonely

| next_year = 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.{{cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Frente%21&titel=Clunk+%28EP%29&cat=s|title=Frente! – Clunk (EP)|website=australian-charts.com|access-date=5 May 2023}} "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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1993|title=Winners by Year 1993|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214142945/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1993|archive-date=14 December 2007|access-date=4 December 2013}}

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."{{cite book | title = Sound as Ever - The Greatest Decade in Australian Music 1990-1999| first=Jane |last=Gazzo| page = 51| year = 2022| publisher = Melbourne Books}}

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

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