All Angels "Windmills Of Your Mind"

All Angels are a British classical pop group formed in 2005, consisting of Charlotte Ritchie, Melanie Nakhla, Laura Wright, and Daisy Chute.

The group's style is classical crossover music, with a repertoire spanning classical, choral, opera and pop including Franz Schubert's Ellens dritter Gesang, Agnus Dei (the choral arrangement of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings) and the Sancta Maria intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, along with the Flower Duet from Léo Delibes' Lakmé and the Barcarolle from Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, plus pop songs such as Robbie Williams' Angels, Fleetwood Mac's Songbird and Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U.

"The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. Noel Harrison performed the song for the film score. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968. (Harrison's father, the British actor Rex Harrison, had performed the previous year's Oscar-winning Talk to the Animals).

Dusty Springfield's version of the song is also well known, although it has been remade by singers such as Alison Moyet, Swing Out Sister, Edward Woodward and Sting, whose version was used in the 1999 remake of the same film. Dusty Springfield's version appears on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006).

The song illustrates a person's mental state after a romantic break-up, relating the way emotionally charged thoughts and memories can run in tortured circles. With its succession of similes ("Like a circle in a spiral/Like a wheel within a wheel"), hypnotic rhythms and complex imagery, it is a song that can "stick in your head." The lyrics even refer to this phenomenon: in among a collection of disjointed memories is "a fragment of a song," in the 1968 recording, and "a fragment of this song," in the 1999 recording.

The line "That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair" is generally altered to the opposite gender when the song has been sung by a woman.

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[TrancetasticWilza]

@Spartacus217 yeah, they'd probably stick it in a blender!

[mineral50music]

Beautiful, Sublime, haunting, gets into your heart and into my mind.

[Kuwaiti1990]

Beautiful song.

[mauricioD]

Very neat and lovely voices, of course, with a suitable arrangement. And yet, I concur with alipitogen in that the reiterative lyrics and metaphors work better not so much romantic (angelic?) as neurotic and relentless, pretty much as Noel Harrison did perform it - and not unlike 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police.

[pfewell]

I can't believe you got 7 people to agree with you that this song is too slow. There is no accounting for taste. This song does not need a nervous energy to work. It is a reflective song and works just fine the way these talented girls performed it. You want it done faster, go ahead and you sing it that way.

[hairygraham]

perfect



[angeliquevergreen]

isn't this marvelous?

[Alexa5188]

What a pure and clear tone. Absolutely lovely, and a beautiful rendition. Yes - it does sound most Angellic.

[MsHammyUK]

We played this at my local music centre, but it didnt sound quite like this... =/ Great!

[pfewell]

These girls have amazing technique. I have listened to several other songs of theirs and this is true for all of them. I just wish they had a better arranger. IMO, this song is one of the most beautiful I have ever heard, but many of the others are just decent to pretty good. If you paired their phenomenal technique with equally good arranging, they would be even better.

[MrThepoliceman]

12 dislikes? 12 people got rejected for a date from one of these ladies.