Song · Counting Crows
“Angels of the Silences” by Counting Crows
From the album Recovering the Satellites (1996)
“Angels of the Silences” by Counting Crows appears on 14 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1996 and 2005. It was first released in 1996 on the album Recovering the Satellites. Its best result is #55 on The End Top 107 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #88 alternative song of 1996 and #3,737 alternative song of all time.
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Counting Crows came back in 1996 with "Angels of the Silences", the lead single from their second album, Recovering the Satellites, and it comes out swinging. Gil Norton produced it, and the band, with David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, Ben Mize and Dan Vickrey sharing the music with Adam Duritz, tears into it with clanging guitars and a gallop that barely stops for breath.
Duritz wrote the words, and he explained on Storytellers that the song is about faith: how hard it is to find anything worth believing in, whether yourself, God or a woman, and how faith is really just waiting, hanging on a fence for as long as you can stand it. It climbed to number 3 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, the best showing of any single from the album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 84 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 | 107 |
| 1996 | 80 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996 | 101 |
| 1996 | 80 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 | 99 |
| 1996 | 55 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 | 107 |
| 1996 | 89 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 | 104 |
| 1996 | 64 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 | 96 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 910 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 1999 | 1641 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1642 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1642 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1634 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1624 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1624 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1621 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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