Open Your Eyes (Guano Apes song) explained

Open your Eyes
Cover:Guano Apes Open Your Eyes.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Guano Apes
Album:Proud Like a God
Language:English
Released:25 August 1997
Recorded:1996
Genre:Nu metal[1]
Length:3:09
Label:GUN/Supersonic
Producer:Guano Apes, Wolfgang Stach
Next Title:Rain
Next Year:1998

"Open Your Eyes" is the debut single from the Guano Apes released in 1997.

Chart performance

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

Music video

The music video features the Guano Apes playing the song in a hotel lobby, empty except for several bored staff, indifferent to and sometimes vacuuming around them.

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1998)Position
Germany (Official German Charts)[4] 33
Chart (1999)Position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[5] 70
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[6] 112
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[7] 100

* American debut single, released in 2000.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: JorgeM93 . 10 Best Nu Metal Album Openers . . 19 September 2021 . 31 May 2022 .
  2. Web site: Guano Apes . . 22 May 2013.
  3. Web site: Proud Like a God . . 22 May 2013.
  4. Web site: Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts. German . . 7 August 2015.
  5. Web site: Jaaroverzichten 1999. Ultratop. 9 April 2021.
  6. Web site: Jaarlijsten 1999. nl. Dutch Top 40. 12 May 2022.
  7. Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Single 1999. dutchcharts.nl. 9 April 2021.
  8. Web site: Germany's Guano Apes 'Open' American Eyes . https://web.archive.org/web/20120209233507/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1429760/germanys-guano-apes-open-american-eyes.jhtml . dead . February 9, 2012 . Basham . David . 2 February 2000 . . 31 May 2013.