C/D "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel

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I am panicking because I can't find anyone else who has NO LOVE WHATSOEVAH for this song, and never has.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

you have now. ugh.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like myself when I feel that I might like this song. alas, it is possible.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

my mom played it all the time as i grew up. you could say it was the soundtrack to my childhood.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't know anyone else then, Aaron. Leave your house more.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

well i haven't polled everyone but the results thus far are discouraging.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 26 September 2002 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)

POP-GUILT!

the cassingle featured an orange cover with John Cusack holding the boombox over his head and 2 versions of the song... the single version and the much better b-side live, extended, afro-pop/mbalax version with Youssoou N'Dour.

― gygax!, Thursday, 26 September 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Hate it.

Can't say I always have tho - liked it for a week when I first heard it.. then I realized how sappy it was. Then I realized how boring it was. Then I saw him perform it on Saturday Night Live & thought it wasn't too bad. Then I finally saw 'Say Anything' and hated the movie and, again, the song. I don't like anything on "So" that I can think of...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic, love it, sorry. But I wish you well on your quest.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Not only do I love that song, but I think _So_ is one of the greatest albums of the 80s.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, "Say Anything" is grebt.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't hate it, but it's light years from his finest moments ("No Self Control," "I Don't Remember," "And Through the Wire," "I Have the Touch").

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my absolute favorite songs. I'm not so fond of the album it comes from though.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know it!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't go so far as to say I hate it, but certainly don't like it.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes you do, Tom! "And all my instincts/They return/And the grand facade/So soon will burn/Without a noise/Without my pride/I reach out from the inside.../[two measures of psuedo-ethnic music]/In your eyes (in your eyes)/The light, the heat (in your eyes)/I am complete (in your eyes)/I see the doorway (in your eyes)/To a thousand churches (in your eyes)/The resolution/To all the fruitless searches/Oh, I see the light and the heat/ Oh, I wanna be that complete/I wanna touch the light/The heat I see in your eyes.../[psuedo-ethnic drums]"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Say Anything, but this song is so meh. I've never much cared for Peter Gabriel.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan I don't!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Download it now! (You'll probably hate it, haha.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

P Gabriel is like Sting, he thinks if he explains the song's inspiration then people will like it better. "'In Your Eyes' sounds very uplifting but I'm really talking about Satan, now do you get it? Clever huh?" Like anybody gives a shit. I actually used to like Peter Gabriel at one time, he had great pop hits like "Shock the Monkey" and "Games without Frontiers" and the underrated classic "I Have the Touch", and then 'So' was just such a boring piece of shit, noteven Kate Bush could save it.

― dave q, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Supposedly, when they shot that scene in "Say Anything" (John Cusack, resplendant in a Clash t-shirt at dawn, parked outside of Ione Skye's house, holding a boombox aloft, playing "In Your Eyes") the actual track that was playing out of John's boombox wasn't "In Your Eyes," but....rather inexplicably.....the entirely incongruous "Party At Ground Zero" by Cusack's then-favorite band, Fishbone. Cameron Crowe had a re-think. Would've made for an entirely different film, I think.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Even better anecdote: Gabriel needs to be heavily persuaded to allow one of his songs to be used in 'Say Anything...'. Crowe asks film studio to send Gabriel a cassette of the movie. Then rings him up, only to be told by Gabriel that he is not impressed: "I don't think my song is at all relevant to a scene about suicide". (Crowe: whaaaaaaaaat???!!!) Turns out the studio had sent Gabriel a different movie entirely.

― zebedee (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

While we're on the subject of "So" & Kate Bush, .. Is "Don't Give Up" uncharacteristically awful?

And while I'm at it... "Here Comes the Flood" - Compare the Gabriel version to the Robert Fripp w/Gabriel version. I'll take the "Exposure" version - way way better than the "Peter Gabriel"(1) version.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll second that, dave. The Peter Gabriel version is like a Wagner opera and the Exposure version is like, er, Tori Amos? But I still like it.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The scene would have worked so much better if Cusack showed up shitfaced at her house with a bottle of Boons Farm and the boombox blasting "Too Drunk To Fuck"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave Q is dead right, except that "Solsbury Hill" was his best moment (overplayed though it is).

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have this ridiculous dance to it where I tried to physically out emote the song itself. I looked like I was giving birth. For the numerous laughs and now memories that my ex-girlfriend and I had to it: Classic.

For the song itself: Dud, I can't f*ing bear it. It certainly strikes some strong and sour chord w/ me so I should probably try to come to terms with it. Actually the interpretive dance probably helped me work through things a bit.

and Tom, you must know it:

"I reach out from the inside..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like "Shock the Monkey" and "Solsbury Hill" and am pretty indifferent to "In Your Eyes" but "Games without Frontiers" has to be one of the silliest songs ever.

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(At any rate, _So_ is all about "Mercy Street", "Big Time" and "Red Rain".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, you DO know it (though you might not remember it) ... it was the 'first dance' at our wedding and YOU were there baby! It was actually Gisele's choice, mine being Mr Cope's 'Fear Loves This Place' which we played afterwards ... easier to dance to, I can tell ya!

― Guy Flower, Friday, 27 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolute classic.

It taught me that when you can play your girlfriend's favorite song (which this was), you get major major points.

― My name is Kenny, Friday, 27 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I was listening to his debut album the other night, first time in a long long while...though he was still finding his post-Genesis voice, there's some terrific stuff, "Moribund", "Humdrum", etc. Just as long as you don't read the lyric sheet! :)

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Joe. I love love love Humdrum. Don't know why. Most of the other stuff too. Have they remastered those early albums yet? My CDs sound so murky you can't even put the songs on any mixes.

As for In Your Eyes, I don't hate it at all, but I guess that I have tired of it. It just doesn't seem to have an effect on me anymore either way.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Sorry guys, but this is my favorite song, i dunno maybe it's just because i'm crazy-that's how i explain a lot of things. oh well, by the way-i LOVE the movie Say Anything-i think it's sweet.

― Alex Booth, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, me and my cassingle b-sides...

http://pages.ripco.net/~dymaxia/freeper.jpeg

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This song, like most of the "So" album, is an instant classic.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

...the actual track that was playing out of John's boombox wasn't "In Your Eyes," but....rather inexplicably.....the entirely incongruous "Party At Ground Zero" by Cusack's then-favorite band, Fishbone...

hahahahahaha this scene will never be the same for me (that's a good thing)

Oh yeah anybody who doesn't acknowledge how great this song is("In Your Eyes", although I could apply this to "Party at Ground Zero" as well), email me your physical addy so I can come beat some sense into you you heartless bastards.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(It woulda been better if Cusack had been blasting "Lyin' Ass Bitch" ha ha ha ha!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Does Tom still not know this song?????

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I have never seen 'Say Anything' (though I have seen the scene) so it has no effect on what I think of this song. More than anything, it reminds me of working nights in a cafe in Sausalito. After closing, when we were cleaning we played the jukebox at full volume, often singing along, so 'In Your Eyes' reminds me also of 'My Way' and a song from 'La Traviata'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

"'In Your Eyes' sounds very uplifting but I'm really talking about Satan, now do you get it? Clever huh?"

Huh? Really? Can I see the reference?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

don't make me feel bad for saying classic

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

It's a pity 'So' is so incredibly badly produced it's almost unlistenable.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

awful

both Gabriel and that goon Jeffrey Gaines' version.

both of which are only really enjoyed in the sentimental spirit of high school proms.

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

(It woulda been better if Cusack had been blasting "Lyin' Ass Bitch" ha ha ha ha!)

ME OTM ALMOST 2 YEARS AGO

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

oh man this song is so good
YSI anybody

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

that is to say, i remember this song being so good
(gmail works too)

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Classic... That song is probably one of the most overused songs for first dances at weddings, though....

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

You guys may think it's sappy, but for my husband and I, it is OUR SONG. When I heard it, I knew it was for us. Because in his eyes, I see the person I want to be. The person he sees me as. It makes me realize that all of my self esteem problems are all in my head. That someone thinks that I am special and worth loving, even if I don't. It represents a lot of things for me, and the extreme love I have for my husband is only one of the things. So for those of you who don't like the song, maybe you have never had anyone look at you that way. "In your eyes, the light the heat, in your eyes, I am complete". I think that says it all!!

― Tovah, Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

i like "say anything" and all but i sure wish he'd used a different song!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

The pseudo-African guitars and Youssou N'Dour crooning all over the coda are the two best parts of a really good song which has unfortunately been ruined by zealous radio programmers.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god I hate it. Mainly because of a yucky stalker guy who thinks it's 'his song'.

― ick, Friday, 7 April 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I hear it on a soft rock station, I hate myself for loving it.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Alfred OTM once again. Saved me the trouble.

― Porcupine Kiss, Novacaine Lips (Bimble...), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

LALALALALA
LA LA ALA
HGASBHM

― pds7k2 (pds37), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

mods are playing with my posts
i'm preodfoundly paranoid thou
gh so perhaps i didn't opstt exactly what i thought i dunno

― pds7k2 (pds37), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

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