# Songs about angels or have angel in the title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378 "2014-02-02T21:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/1 "2014-02-02T21:34:58Z")
Since “[blank] in the song title” has become a recurring theme, let’s do one about angels. I’ll begin: “Angel” - Aerosmith “Angel of Babylon” - Avantasia “There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)” - Eurythmics “Angels of Death” - Hawkwind “Angels Fall First” - Nightwish “Angel of Death” - Slayer “Angel of Harlem” - U2 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/2 "2014-02-02T21:36:11Z")
“Teen Angel” - Mark Dinning “Angel Eyes” - Bruce Springsteen “Angel” - John Hiatt “Angel” - Kirsty McColl “Angel” - Sarah McLaughan “Angel Spread Your Wings” - Judy Collins ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/3 "2014-02-02T21:43:12Z")
“Angel Flying too Close to the Ground,” Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels,” Ray Charles and Willie Nelson “Oh Come, Angel Band,” Johnny Cash “Angel and the Badman,” Johnny Cash ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/4 "2014-02-02T21:52:58Z")
“Angel” - Madonna “Angel” - New Kids on the Block (vomit smiley) “Angel of the Morning” - most famously by Merrilee Rush and Juice Newton “Angel” - Shaggy (samples “Angel of the Morning”) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/5 "2014-02-02T21:57:21Z")
“Angel of Harlem” - U2 ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/6 "2014-02-02T22:03:47Z")
“Angel Eyes”- Jeff Healey “Next Door To An Angel”- Neil Sedaka ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/7 "2014-02-02T22:13:22Z")
“Black Angel’s Death Song,” The Velvet Underground In The Deftones’ “Savory,” the singer is singing to someone he calls “angel” (“Hey Angel, fly over and bless me…”). ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/8 "2014-02-02T22:18:40Z")
Acrimonious - _Angel Withdrawn_ Archgoat - _Angel of Sodomy_ Beherit - _Thou Angels Of Gods_ [sic!] Black Witchery - _The Angelholocaust_ Blasphemy - _Fallen Angel Of Doom_ Catharsis - _Exterminating Angel_ Clandestine Blaze - _Wings Of The Archangel_ Cultes Des Ghoules - _Angel Of Poison And Death_ Dark Funeral - _When Angels Forever Die_ Dead Congregation - _Graves Of The Archangels_ Death SS - _Murder Angels '79_ Demoncy - _Impure Blessings (Dark Angel Of The Four Wings)_ Dissection - _Where Dead Angels Lie_ Grotesque - _Angel’s Blood_ Hellhammer - _Angel Of Destruction_ Katharsis - _Lacerating the Angels_ Lustration - _Fall Of The Rebel Angel_ Malicious Secrets - _Interior Crack Psycho Angel Bitch_ Moonblood - _The Angel’s Lament_ Ogdru Jahad - _Weeping of Angels_ Possessed - _Fallen Angel_ Rex Mundi - _Pious Angels (Sepher Seraphim)_ Sorhin - _Apokalypsens Ängel_ [“ängel” is Swedish for angel] Tiamat - _Angels Far Beyond_ Void Meditation Cult - _Born Of The Blighting Angel_ Watain - _Angelrape_ ETA: Oh and how could one forget Dire Straits - _Angel Of Mercy_. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/9 "2014-02-02T22:25:09Z")
“Angel of Montgomery”- John Prine (best-known version is probably Bonnie Raitt’s) . ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/10 "2014-02-02T22:25:43Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > “Black Angel’s Death Song,” The Velvet Underground That’s one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs. 🙂 “Send Me an Angel”-Real Life “Send Me an Angel”-The Scorpions ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/11 "2014-02-02T22:29:05Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > … > “Angel Eyes” - Bruce Springsteen > … > [@Bumbershoot](#): > > “Angel Eyes”- Jeff Healey > … Neither (I’m almost certain) to be confused with [Curtis Lee’s - _(Pretty Little) Angel Eyes_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZT__JFMUgU). CMC ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/12 "2014-02-02T22:47:05Z")
They Might Be Giants - “She’s an Angel” One of my favorites of theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/13 "2014-02-02T22:54:34Z")
“Kiss an Angel Good Morning” Charlie Pride ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/14 "2014-02-02T22:55:04Z")
Alan O’Day - [Undercover Angel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xRMw0NyW0&feature=youtube_gdata_player) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/15 "2014-02-02T23:04:13Z")
Hymns: Angels from the Realms of Glory Angels We Have Heard On High Angel Voices, Ever Singing Angels, Roll The Rock Away Christ, The Fair Glory of the Holy Angels Do You Know The Song That The Angels Sang God Hath Sent His Angels Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Let The Seventh Angel Sound On High Mighty God, While Angels Bless Thee O Ye Immortal Throng Songs Of Praise The Angels Sang Through The Night Thy Angels Kept Why Do Thy Holy Angels Sing Ye Holy Angels Bright Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones Christmas: And The Angels Cried - Alan Jackson and Calling All Angels - Train ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/16 "2014-02-02T23:07:21Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOxRXMYHMy8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOxRXMYHMy8) one of my favorite songs It’s actually called Ali D’oro but I wanted to post the English version ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/17 "2014-02-02T23:10:58Z")
Whoa, no mention of “Earth Angel” yet? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/18 "2014-02-02T23:18:09Z")
“Angel from Montgomery” - John Prine or Bonnie Raitt ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/19 "2014-02-02T23:49:33Z")
The Black Crowes - [She Talks to Angels](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a76FeV2-Dw) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378/20 "2014-02-02T23:53:12Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > “Angel Eyes”- Jeff Healey Roxy Music also penned a song with the same name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-angels-or-have-angel-in-the-title/680378.md?page=2)