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
| 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
- "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
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/Frente-Ordinary-Angels/release/1777859]
{{Frente!}}
{{ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist}}