Robbed hit of the week 7/13/20 - Counting Crows' "Angels Of The Silences"...
from the album Recovering The Satellites (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #45
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the rock band Counting Crows, whose debut album August & Everything After was a massive success, spinning of four radio hits, two of which made the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 Airplay chart with "Round Here" and the top ten airplay hit "Mr. Jones". Also, another track from a label compilation, "Einstein On A Beach", nearly made that mark in the fall of 1994. However, the fame took its price on lead singer Adam Duritz, who had to mentally regroup in order to start work on the band's sophomore effort, Recovering The Satellites, adding another guitarist, Dan Vickrey, to the mix. The first song from the set promoted to radio, "Angel Of The Silences", is a tone poem on Duritz's thoughts about recovering from the onslaught of fame. He wrote the song with the band's Vickrey, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, and Ben Mize. It was a much harder sound for the band than on the debut...
While "Angels Of The Silences" was a big hit on rock radio, reaching both the Mainstream (#4) and Alternative (one week at #3) Rock format charts in Billboard magazine, the song, which couldn't place on Billboard's official pop Hot 100 chart since it wasn't released as a commercial single, just missed the top-40 on the airplay component of that chart in October of 1996. Internationally, the single was a top ten hit in Canada at #8, while in the UK it criminally missed the top-40 at #41.
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Here's the Crows on the Jools Holland show in the UK in 1997..
...and live at Woodstock 99...
Finally, in concert in 2008...
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