TrainCalling All Angels (4:02)

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“Calling All Angels” is the title of a 2003 song by the rock band Train. It was included on the band’s third studio album, My Private Nation, and produced by Brendan O’Brien.

The song was the first to be released from My Private Nation in 2003 and peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart that same year. The song features Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar.

“Calling All Angels” was nominated for two Grammy Awards at the ceremony held in February 2004. In the category Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group, the song lost out to “Disorder in the House” by Bruce Springsteen and Warren Zevon; in the category Best Rock Song, the winner was “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes. The song has also been prominent in pop culture appearing in several television shows including One Tree Hill and as the theme song in the intro for the short lived medical drama 3 lbs. Train also performed the song at the 2006 Pepsi Super Bowl Smash. The song is also played at Angel Stadium before every Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game while the video screen shows a montage of the team’s history. This song was also recently performed on the CSI:NY episode “Second Chances.”

The song received mixed reviews from rock critics, with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly giving the song a B+ and calling it “an anthemic hymn to commitment…
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  • My Private Nation
    Train Play
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  • Zoey 101 Music Mix
    Various Play
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  • The Collection
    Train Play
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  • This is Alice music 8
    Various Artists Play
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  • damnidunno

    the bangles was a chick band :P

    October 2011
  • dannygrl

    lol at storm317...that's what i wanna know! i'm clueless

    September 2011
  • Storm317

    chick band...? wtf is a chick band...

    September 2011
  • bianca_lg_xx

    <3

    August 2011
  • ClassicRock290

    chick band....good track though. Agreed

    January 2011
  • caribdreamer

    chick band....good track though.

    November 2010
  • Live2Ride2

    This song has always been a great inspiration to me, I love it!

    October 2010
  • boscopud

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....... Thank you Jukey!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!

    October 2010
  • cadfinem

    Que canción tan buena ome !!! The best Train's song yeah

    October 2010
  • Shellissosick

    ew

    October 2010
  • miamigirlie

    an iiiiiiiii aaaaaaaaaaaaa iiiiiiiiii calling on you angels.... ♪♫♪

    September 2010
  • cluelessincali

    I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.....this song gets me every time I hear it.

    September 2010
  • XXXnicoletteXXX

    i want a reason for the way things have to be.

    August 2010
  • marrr88tune

    saw Train @ SPAC the other night. They opened for John Mayer. Nice sound!!!!

    August 2010
  • cherokeejoe

    love track

    July 2010
  • luckyleon

    Just heard this on Smallville season 3. Decent.

    June 2010
  • jmesun

    i wont give up, if you dont give up.. i need a sign to let me know your here.........i need a hand to hold some hope inside of me..

    June 2010
  • superchunk7

    i love this song! i was about to just shut down but this song came on. i just love it! its great! awesome!

    June 2010
  • shembarnoah

    A wonderful song....but do you want to call all angels ???some are fallen angels.............glad they did not break up after all...

    June 2010
  • StitchVIIIVI

    once again, a good song, but a crappy version. What's wrong with LAST.FM?

    June 2010
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