Video: The Nazz - Open My Eyes

Greg Kihn. I come back to this song every couple of years. It's a predictable and hardworking tune, yet it somehow manages to transcend its simplicity. Echo & The Bunnymen. One of my favorites. In this live version of the song, the bass is too loud and the whole thing sounds like a British version of The Sonics' "Strychnine." Linda Ronstadt should be more influential than she is -- either that, or not enough folks are 'fessing up to it. [...]

by Pico Back in July we yakked it up about Todd Rundgren's latest band , The New Cars. Then, we noted that the reconstituted and reconfigurated Cars threw out a few bones during their tour for the "Todd Is God" contingent in the crowd. One of these golden oldies is the brilliant, power-pop "Open My Eyes," and in that article I, uh, sort of promised that the song would be the main topic at another time. So why not now? "Eyes" goes all the way back to Rundgren's first stop in [...]