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It was the lead single released from their fourth and final studio album, Close Your Eyes and was the biggest hit from the LP. The song was written by Larry Evoy, and was a sequel to their best-known hit, "Last Song". "Close Your Eyes" spent 12 weeks on the U.S. charts, and peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Oliver deemed the highlight "Close Your Eyes" "with its Stereolab-esque layers of voices and organs." [5] Shane Gilchrist from the Otago Daily Times gave the album 3 and a half out of 5, saying the album has "peaks and plateaus", praising Kanye West's "Wolves", The Meters' "What'cha Say" and Nick Drake's "Things Behind the Sun". [6]
Close Your Eyes (Glorium album), 1997; Close Your Eyes (Kurt Elling album), 1995; Close Your Eyes (Sarah McKenzie album), 2012; Close Your Eyes (Stacey Kent album), 1997; Close Your Eyes: A Collection 1965–1986, by Vincent Crane, 2008; Close Your Eyes, or the title song (see below), by Edward Bear, 1973; Close Your Eyes, by Ellie Drennan, 2015
The Dells released a version of the song on their 1968 album There Is. [10] Houston Person released a version of the song on his 1969 album Goodness!. [11] Earl Lewis and The Channels released a version of the song as the B-side to their 1973 single "Work with Me Annie". [12] General Kane released a version of the song on their 1987 album Wide ...
The song received a favorable review from Taste of Country, which said that "this love song is easy to embrace, and even easier to sing along with." [2] Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song four stars out of five, calling it "more detailed than most other songs that tread the same ground" while adding that "lead singer Matt Thomas has a subtle vocal delivery with a hint of Dierks Bentley ...
[6] The Riverfront Times (which considered the song to be "incendiary") interpreted the video's concluding scene — the two men fight their way into a house, up a flight of stairs, and into a bedroom, where they collapse on the same bed — to mean that "both men will rest and awaken tomorrow to begin the battle anew".
McKenzie told Australian Jazz that she sits down at the piano with a larger selection of songs she’d like to work with and to 'see what happens'. She said she chooses songs that she 'loves or that have special significance' and the end result is Close Your Eyes; a group of songs that she wanted to release. There is a mix of jazz standards ...
Close Your Eyes was the best-selling British jazz album of 1997. [3] In an interview with Billboard to promote the album Kent said: "With this album, I was trying to give a mixture of things that people know and gems that got lost, songs that might get missed out of the great standard repertoire." [4]