Open Your Eyes (Guano Apes song)

"Open your Eyes"
Single by Guano Apes
from the album Proud Like a God
B-side "We Use the Pain"
"Wash It Down"
Released August 25, 1997
Format CD single
Recorded 1996
Genre Nu metal, post-grunge, rap rock
Length 3:09
Label GUN/Supersonic
Writer(s) Guano Apes
Producer(s) Guano Apes, Wolfgang Stach
Certification Gold (BVMI)
Guano Apes singles chronology
"Open Your Eyes"
(1997)		 "Rain"
(1998)
Music sample
"Open Your Eyes"

Open Your Eyes is the debut single from the Guano Apes. It reached No. 5 in Germany, remaining in the Top 100 for 30 weeks. The song won the "Local Heroes" competition held by VIVA, beating out over 1000 competitors. Due to VIVA's heavy rotation of the song's music video, the Guano Apes signed a deal with Gun Records, which released the group's debut album Proud Like A God in 1997, on which the song appears.[1] In their review of the album, Allmusic spoke highly of the song.[2] In 1999 the song was certified gold in Germany.[3]

The music video features the Guano Apes playing the song in a hotel lobby. The lobby is empty except for several bored hotel staff, who are indifferent to the presence of the Guano Apes, not paying attention to them playing and even vacuuming around them.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Open Your Eyes"   3:08
2. "We Use The Pain"   2:32
3. "Wash It Down"   3:06

Charts

Chart[4] Peak
Position
Germany 5
Austria 10
Switzerland 11
Netherlands 19
Belgium 14
Italy 8
US Mainstream Rock Tracks 24*

* The single was released on the United States in 2000 as their debut American single.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Guano Apes". Allmusic. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Proud Like a God". Allmusic. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Guano Apes)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  4. ↑ "Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes". hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Basham, David (February 2, 2000). "Germany's Guano Apes "Open" American Eyes". MTV. Retrieved May 31, 2013.