| "Ordinary Angels" | ||||
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| Single by Frente! | ||||
| from the album Marvin the Album | ||||
| Released | 1993 | |||
| Length | 2:37 | |||
| Label | Mammoth, Mushroom | |||
| Songwriter(s) | A Hart, S Austin | |||
| Producer(s) | Daniel Denholm | |||
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"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]
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]
European CD single
North American CD single
1994 CD remixes
