Eye II Eye

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Eye II Eye
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Studio album by
Scorpions
Released9 March 1999
Recorded1998–1999
StudioLittle America Studios, Austria
Genre
Length62:49
Label East West (Europe)
Koch (US)
WEA Japan (Japan)
Producer Peter Wolf
Scorpions chronology
Pure Instinct
(1996)		Eye II Eye
(1999)		 Moment of Glory
(2000)
Singles from Eye II Eye
  1. "To Be No. 1"
    Released: 1999
  2. "Mysterious"
    Released: 1999
  3. "10 Light Years Away / Start Me Up"
    Released: 1999
  4. "Eye to Eye"
    Released: 1999
  5. "Aleyah"
    Released: 1999
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 2/10 [2]
Metal Hammer (GER)6/7 [3]
Rock Hard 3.5/10 [4]

Eye II Eye is the fourteenth studio album by the German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 1999. It is a radical departure in that Eye II Eye is much more pop-oriented than their previous work, which alienated some fans, despite the single "Mysterious" reaching number 26 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. [5] It is the first studio Scorpions album to feature James Kottak on drums and also the final Scorpions studio album to feature Ralph Rieckermann on bass guitar.

Contents

For the first (and, thus far, only) time, Scorpions released a song recorded largely in German, namely "Du bist so schmutzig" ("You are so dirty"), with few English lyrics by Kottak.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Klaus Meine, except where noted

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Mysterious"Ralph Rieckermann, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, Jean-Michel Byron 5:28
2."To Be No. 1" Peter Wolf, Jabs3:57
3."Obsession"Meine, Wolf4:09
4."10 Light Years Away" (Lyrics: Mick Jones, Marti Frederiksen, Meine, Schenker)Jones, Frederiksen, Meine, Schenker3:52
5."Mind Like a Tree"Schenker, Wolf5:34
6."Eye to Eye" (In memoriam of Hugo Meine and Heinrich Schenker, Klaus and Rudolf's fathers)Schenker5:04
7."What U Give U Get Back" (Lyrics: Meine, Schenker)Schenker, Wolf5:02
8."Skywriter"Schenker4:55
9."Yellow Butterfly"Schenker, Frederiksen5:44
10."Freshly Squeezed"Schenker, Wolf3:58
11."Priscilla"Schenker3:17
12."Du bist so schmutzig" (Lyrics: Meine, Jabs, James Kottak)Jabs, Schenker3:55
13."Aleyah" (Lyrics: Meine, Schenker)Schenker4:19
14."A Moment in a Million Years"Meine3:38
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleMusicLength
15."You and I (“Butcher”-radio-remix)"Meine4:00
Eye II Eye single-only track
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Mind Power" (from the "To Be No.1" CD-single)Meine4:28

Personnel

Scorpions
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Chart (1999)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [6] 37
French Albums (SNEP) [7] 50
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 6
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [9] 24
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [10] 84
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 49
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [12] 23

Sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Malaysia—25,000 [13]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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