Eye (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Eye
Artist = The Smashing Pumpkins
from Album = Lost Highway soundtrack
Released = 1997
Format = Cassette
Recorded = 1996
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:51
Label = Nothing/Interscope Records
Writer = Billy Corgan
Producer = Billy Corgan
Chart position = * #8 (US Modern Rock Tracks)
Last single = "The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
(1997)
This single = "Eye"
(1997)
Next single = "Ava Adore"
(1997) |

"Eye" is a song by the band The Smashing Pumpkins, which featured on the soundtrack of the David Lynch film "Lost Highway". Along with the song "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" from "Batman & Robin" and "Christmastime" from "A Very Special Christmas 3", "Eye" represented a period of work on compilations done by the Pumpkins in between the release of the two albums "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and "Adore". It also appeared on their greatest hits collection "Rotten Apples".

The song was originally written by Billy Corgan to be used as a backing track by rapper/basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neil, a personal hero of Corgan's, however when Corgan and O'Neil were unable to get in touch, film director David Lynch expressed interest in using the track in the soundtrack for his film.Thomas, Richard. "Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins". EQ Magazine. October 2008.]

"Eye" is performed entirely by electronic instruments (apart from the vocals), indicating the direction the Pumpkins would take in their up-coming album "Adore". The track "Tear" was also considered to be put on the "Lost Highway" soundtrack, however instead "Eye" was put on, and "Tear" appeared on "Adore". In his "Confessions" Corgan claimed the surprise success of "Eye" as a single inspired Corgan to continue with the new electronica-tinged direction "Adore" would take. [Corgan, Billy. " [http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/?skip=50 Coming Down the Mountain] ". "The Confessions of Billy Corgan".]

"Eye" was released as a very limited promotional single in late 1996, and reached number 8 on the US Modern Rock Tracks in early 1997. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=5700&model.vnuAlbumId=933126] ]

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