Angel

I knew there were a lot of popular songs called ‘Angel’ or ‘Angels’ or with the word in the title, but I didn’t realise there were nearly a hundred; looking through the list there were thirty odd whose artist I knew, and from those maybe a half-dozen of actual songs I knew… plus some other artists not on the list who sang dreary dirges about angels… oh, I’ve given it away, most of the songs which have angel in the title in my biased opinion are pretty ghastly – even those by singers I like! And even those which aren’t dreary dirges, like Annie Lennox, I really just don’t like.

Just about the only exception is Willie Nelson… and here is his song by Raul Malo…

…and here are the artists I have heard of…, none as good as Willie or Raul:

1. Aerosmith song
2. a-ha
3. Akon song
4. Aretha Franklin song
5. The Corrs
6. Eurythmics
7. Fleetwood Mac
8. Jimmi Hendrix
9. JJ Cale
10. Madonna
11. Massive Attack
12. “Natasha Bedingfield
13. Pharrell Williams
14. Shaggy
15. “Yoko Ono
16. Bruce Springsteen
17. “Robbie Williams
18. ” Dave Matthews Band
19. “Elvis Presley
20. Erasure
21.  Everything but the Girl
22. Happy Mondays
23. Jack Johnson
24. Judas Priest
25. Leona Lewis
26. Lionel Richie
27. “Rod Stewart,
28. Sarah Brightman,
29.  Jeff Beck
30. Buffy Sainte-Marie
31. Diddy
32.  Limp Bizkit
33. ” Owl City
34.  Tori Amos