| 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.
"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.
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.
| 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]