You Open My Eyes

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"You Open My Eyes"
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Australian single
Single by Hoodoo Gurus
from the album Crank
B-side
  • "Something I Forgot to Say"
  • "Television Addict" (live)
Released10 January 1994 (1994-01-10) [1]
Length3:20
Label
Songwriter(s) Brad Shepherd [2]
Producer(s) Ed Stasium
Hoodoo Gurus singles chronology
"The Right Time"
(1993)		"You Open My Eyes"
(1994)		"Less Than a Feeling"
(1994)

"You Open My Eyes" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released in January 1994 as the second single from their sixth studio album, Crank . The song peaked at number 43 on the Australian Singles Chart. This was the first Hoodoo Gurus single that was not written or co-written by Dave Faulkner.

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In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said: "[I] found Brad taking over lead vocal duties on a Hoodoo Gurus single. Though Brad had sung on every album since Mars Needs Guitars! this was the first time that people started crying out, 'It's a hit!'" [3]

Track listing

CD single

  1. "You Open My Eyes" – 3:20
  2. "Something I Forgot to Say" – 2:57
  3. "Television Addict" – 3:25 (recorded live to air in Perth on 31 October 1993)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [4] 43

References

  1. ↑ "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 10/1/94: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 204. 9 January 1994. p. 17.
  2. ↑ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA . Retrieved 9 February 2008.
  3. ↑ Faulkner, Dave (June 2000). "Pop and punishment". Julia Thiel. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
  4. ↑ "Hoodoo Gurus – You Open My Eyes". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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