Furious Angels

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{{Short description|Album by Rob Dougan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Furious Angels
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Rob Dougan]]
| cover = FuriousAngelsCover.jpg
| released = 1 July 2002
| recorded = 1994–2002
| studio =
| genre = [[Electronica]], [[trip hop]]
| length = 71:10
| label = {{hlist|[[Bertelsmann Music Group|BMG]]|[[Cheeky Records|Cheeky]]|[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]|[[Reprise Records|Reprise]]}}
| producer = Rob Dougan
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[The 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sessions]]<BR />
| next_year = 2015
}}
{{Album ratings
|MC= 63/100<ref name=mc>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/furious-angels/rob-dougan|title=Furious Angels Reviews - Metacritic|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=August 18, 2013}}</ref>
|rev1=[[About.com]]
|rev1score={{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dancemusic.about.com/cs/reviews/fr/RobDouganCD.htm|first=DJ Ron|last=Slomowicz|title=Rob Dougan - Furious Angels CD Review|accessdate=August 18, 2013|website=[[About.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050918045352/http://dancemusic.about.com/cs/reviews/fr/RobDouganCD.htm|archive-date=September 18, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]]''
| rev2Score = 7/10<ref>{{cite web |url=//www.kludgemagazine.com/reviews.php?id=178 |title=KLUDGE MAGAZINE - Review - Rob Dougan: Furious Angels |accessdate=August 18, 2013 |publisher=[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]] |first=Mike|last=King |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050427141700/http://www.kludgemagazine.com/reviews.php?id=178 |archivedate=April 27, 2005 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=mc/>
|rev4 = ''[[UNCUT (magazine)|Uncut]]''
|rev4score= {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=mc/>
}}

'''''Furious Angels''''' is the debut and as of 2025, the only studio album by Australian music producer [[Rob Dougan]]. It was released on 1 July 2002 in the United Kingdom and in July 2003 in the United States. It was nominated for the 2004 [[Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package]].

==Release==
''Furious Angels'' was originally released as a single-disc album (14 tracks for its world edition, 15 for its home UK edition) dominated by vocal tracks. It was then rereleased as a two-disc album, disc one featuring all 15 songs and disc two featuring 10 instrumental versions of the vocal songs from the first disc, as well as two music videos; there's also been a special-edition set adding a booklet of lyrics and photographs.<ref>[http://www.tursa.franken.de/cgi-bin/discogm.cgi?RolloBliss_discog.html&RobDougan#RobDFuriousAl Discography] from ''[[Faithless]]/[[Rollo Armstrong|Rollo]]/[[Sister Bliss]] & related artists - Unofficial Discography''</ref> The album was written, produced and mainly financed by Dougan himself, rather than a studio, with funds generally raised through the licensing of tracks from the album for film and television.

A 2003 article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' noted:

{{blockquote|Rob Dougan is a rather odd musician. He says he's not particularly interested in music, for a start. His most famous track, "Clubbed to Death", is dance music that you could never dance to. He has written for both ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' films, but doesn't seem to think much of what he did for those either. He spent six years working on his orchestral solo album, ''Furious Angels'', which could either be an epic work of panoramic genius or a gargantuan monument to his ego, with strings—it's hard to tell. And he has just been asked to remix some [[Frank Sinatra]] tracks, even though he thinks remixes are a waste of time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/aug/29/1|title=Sick of dance music|first=Will|last=Hodgkinson|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 29, 2003}}</ref>}}

==Track listing==

===Disc one===
{{tracklist
| title1 = Prelude | length1 = 0:42
| title2 = Furious Angels | length2 = 5:56
| title3 = Will You Follow Me? | length3 = 3:50
| title4 = Left Me for Dead | length4 = 4:39
| title5 = I'm Not Driving Anymore | length5 = 4:34
| title6 = [[Clubbed to Death (instrumental)|Clubbed to Death]] | length6 = 7:28 | note6 = Kurayamino Variation
| title7 = There's Only Me | length7 = 5:37
| title8 = Instrumental | length8 = 4:28
| title9 = Nothing at All | length9 = 6:32
| title10 = Born Yesterday | length10 = 5:20
| title11 = Speed Me Towards Death | length11 = 4:32
| title12 = Drinking Song | length12 = 3:58
| title13 = Pause | length13 = 0:33
| title14 = One and the Same | length14 = 5:45 | note14 = [[Coda (music)|Coda]]
| title15 = Clubbed to Death 2 | length15 = 7:10 | note15 = UK Bonus Track. Opens with 1:00 of silence. Song is 6:10.
}}

===Disc two (instrumental)===
{{tracklist
| title1 = Will You Follow Me? | length1 = 4:34
| title2 = Furious Angels | length2 = 6:04
| title3 = Left Me for Dead | length3 = 4:40
| title4 = I'm Not Driving Anymore | length4 = 4:34
| title5 = There's Only Me | length5 = 5:36
| title6 = Instrumental | length6 = 4:30 | note6 = Incorrectly labelled as Clubbed to Death [Instrumental Version] in some UK printings.
| title7 = Nothing at All | length7 = 5:54
| title8 = Born Yesterday | length8 = 7:33
| title9 = Speed Me Towards Death | length9 = 4:30
| title10 = One and the Same (Coda) | length10 = 5:45
| title11 = Clubbed to Death (Video) | length11 = 3:28
| title12 = Furious Angels (Video) | length12 = 3:58
}}

==Influences==
The introduction to "Clubbed to Death" is taken directly from the main theme of [[Edward Elgar]]'s "[[Enigma Variations]]". The piano introduction to "I'm Not Driving Anymore" and the orchestral part of "Clubbed to Death 2" (only on the UK version of the album) is built around [[Frédéric Chopin]]'s "Prelude No. 4 in E-minor" (from ''[[Preludes (Chopin)#24 preludes, Op. 28|Preludes, opus 28]]''). The "Instrumental" and the orchestral part of "One And The Same" are variations of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s "Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV1043".

==Song usage==
Some tracks from the album have been licensed for use in feature films, advertising, and television,<ref>{{cite web|archivedate=2004-05-02|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040502173457/http://www.robdougan.com/news.php?pageNum_rsOtherNews=1&totalRows_rsOtherNews=26&id=45&region=1|url=http://www.robdougan.com/news.php?pageNum_rsOtherNews=1&totalRows_rsOtherNews=26&id=45&region=1|title=Furious Angels repackaged album|publisher=RobDougan.com|date=27 June 2003}}</ref> including [[The Matrix (series)|the ''Matrix'' film series]] and the ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'' television show. The song "Furious Angels" is used by the [[Los Angeles Lakers]] to introduce visiting teams. The instrumental version of this song also appears in the opening sequence of the video game ''[[Grand Prix 3]]''. Several shows in the [[Law & Order (franchise)|''Law & Order'' franchise]] have used tracks from ''Furious Angels'' as an opening credits theme for UK airings: "I'm Not Driving Anymore" was used by ''[[Law & Order]]'' and ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', and "There's Only Me" was used by ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]''.

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (2003)
!Peak<br />Position
|-
| Australian Albums ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref name="ARIA Chart">{{cite web|url=https://imgur.com/a/n5eKMdT |title=Rob Dougan ARIA Chart history to June 2025 |publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date= 6 July 2025}} N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 174
|-
| U.S. [[Dance/Electronic Albums|Billboard Top Electronic Albums]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 8<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/furious-angels-mw0000033191/awards|title=Furious Angels - Rob Dougan - Awards - AllMusic.com |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |date= |accessdate=May 15, 2016}}</ref>
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030820100848/http://robdougan.tcslon.com/inspired.html |date=August 20, 2003 |title=Japanese inspirations for Furious Angels }}

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