Open Your Eyes (Guano Apes song)

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

"Open your Eyes"
Single by Guano Apes
from the album Proud Like a God
B-side
  • "We Use the Pain"
  • "Wash It Down"
ReleasedAugust 25, 1997
Recorded1996
GenreNu metal, rap metal
Length3:09
LabelGUN/Supersonic
Songwriter(s)Guano Apes
Producer(s)Guano Apes, Wolfgang Stach
Guano Apes singles chronology
"Open your Eyes"
(1997)		 "Rain"
(1998)

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.[1] Steve Huey's Allmusic review of Proud Like a God called the song one of the album's "strong moments".[2] In 1999, the single was certified gold in Germany.[3]

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.[4]

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

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

* American debut single, released in 2000.[6]

Year-end chart
Chart (1998) Position
Germany (Offizielle Deutsche Charts)[7] 33

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 (Official Video) on YouTube
  5. "Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes". hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  6. Basham, David (February 2, 2000). "Germany's Guano Apes 'Open' American Eyes". MTV. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  7. "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
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