Open Your Eyes (Guano Apes song)

"Open your Eyes"
Single by Guano Apes
from the album Proud Like a God
Language	English
B-side	"We Use the Pain" "Wash It Down"
Released	25 August 1997
Recorded	1996
Genre	Nu metal[1]
Length	3:09
Label	GUN/Supersonic
Songwriter(s)	Guano Apes
Producer(s)	Guano Apes, Wolfgang Stach
Guano Apes singles chronology
"Open your Eyes" (1997) "Rain" (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.[4]

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.[5]

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

Weekly charts Chart (1997) Peak Position Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[6] 10 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] 14 Germany (GfK)[8] 5 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] 18 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[10] 19 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[11] 11 Chart (2000) Peak position US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[12] 24*

Year-end charts Chart (1998) Position Germany (Official German Charts)[13] 33 Chart (1999) Position Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 70 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[15] 112 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16] 100

* American debut single, released in 2000.[17]

References

1. JorgeM93 (19 September 2021). "10 Best Nu Metal Album Openers". Ultimate Guitar. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
2. "Guano Apes". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
3. "Proud Like a God". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
4. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Guano Apes)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
5. Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes (Official Video) on YouTube
6. "Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
7. "Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
8. "Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
9. "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 25, 1999" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
10. "Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
11. "Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
12. "Guano Apes Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
13. "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
14. "Jaaroverzichten 1999". Ultratop. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
15. "Jaarlijsten 1999" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
16. "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1999". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
17. Basham, David (2 February 2000). "Germany's Guano Apes 'Open' American Eyes". MTV. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2013.