I Wish We All Could Win

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I Wish We All Could Win

Studio album by The Afters
Released	February 22, 2005
Recorded	2004
Genre	Christian Rock
Length	41:27
Label	Epic
Producer(s)	The Afters
All Music Guide link

I Wish We All Could Win is the debut album of the christian rock group "The Afters." This album also contains their hit single Beautiful Love.

1 Track listing
2 Critical Response
3 Charts
4 Awards
5 Album Cover

[edit] Track listing

"Beautiful Love"– 3:58
"Until The World"– 4:18
"Someday"– 3:31
"Love Lead Me On"– 4:28
"All That I Am"– 4:24
"The Way That You Are"– 3:43
"You"– 4:00
"Love Will Make You Beautiful"– 4:41
"Wait"– 3:13
"Thank God I'm Not The One"– 5:10

[edit] Critical Response

The website "Soul Purpose" remarked in their review: "The Afters display talent belying their short existence. ... engag[ing] the listener on a personal journey. A glimpse of the soul is rare indeed [but] the Afters debut effortlessly captures that." More often than not, critics have approved of the soulful pop rock The Afters deliver on this disc, regardless of its overly religious themes.

Jesus Freak Hideout gave the album 4 1/2 stars out of 5 commenting that "The Afters' approach to worship is a classy and thoughtful."[1]
Christianity Today.com gave the album 3 1/2 stars out of 5 and added that it effectively "manage[s] to straddle the fence between what Christian and mainstream radio is willing to play."[2]
All Music Guide gave the album 3 1/2 stars out of 5

[edit] Charts

Top Heatseekers: #40 (2005)

[edit] Awards

CCM magazine selected I Wish We All Could Win for the Editor’s Top 10 Albums of 2005

[edit] Album Cover

The album cover has a turtle and a rabbit. There is a good chance that it's a reference to Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare". Also the album title could be referring to the race that the two of them had in the story.