Eye

Robyn Hitchcock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 1992)
• Label: Twintone
• ASIN: B00008FXVC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,435 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cynthia Mask

2. Certainly Clickot

3. Queen Elvis

4. Flesh Cartoons

5. Chinese Water Python

6. Executioner

7. Linctus House

8. Sweet Ghost of Light

9. College of Ice

10. Transparent Lover

11. Beautiful Girl

12. Raining Twilight Coast

13. Clean Steve

14. Agony of Pleasure

15. Glass Hotel

16. Satellite

17. Aquarium

18. Queen Elvis II

19. Raining Twilight Coast [*][Demo Version]

20. Agony of Pleasure [*][Demo Version]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes me do things, October 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eye (Audio CD)

Somehow, the accoustic side of Robyn always inspires me to do chores. Not just simple chores, mind you, but BIG household chores. And not my house, but a friend's house. As a matter of fact, the first time I listened to this album, I was at the home of my future wife, sanding down the walls to be painted. The music inspired a sort of zen-like motivation to do things in a slightly different way. It sealed my fate, as I ended up marrying the girl. It'll seal yours as well.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterful return to form, December 20, 1999

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Todd Hagley "groucho75" (Decatur, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye (Audio CD)

A few years back, around the time of the Rhino re-issues, I bought the "You and Oblivion" album. Now while that album has its own merit, it had an awful task ahead of it; namely to showcase Robyn's folk/acoustic side, which truth be told, is his strongest suit. Reissues aside, "Eye" does a much better job with much better material.

Its difficult to find a bad note in this collection of tunes, which continues Robyn's intimate narrative style as well as his love and death obsession.

"Raining Twilight Coast" and "Linctus House" do reflect his fingerpicking style better than most, but the real gem here is "Glass Hotel" which has been a staple of his live act for nearly ten years now.

Robyn's involvment with then-fiance Cynthia brought more balance to his sound on this album than his first acoustic album, "I Often Dream of Trains" which had a more tragic, joyless sound to it. While he has since moved on in both artistic and commercial direction (this album was never released on A&M, his label at the time) this album remains one of his more modest affairs; the sound of a man in love gently and quietly maturing while things around him continue to decay. Another of his albums that qualifies as a "Must Have."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tar, honey, nettles and (poisoned) chocolate gold coins, January 26, 2000

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boeanthropist "Philip Welsh" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eye (Audio CD)

Apparently he of the crustacean-fancies was going through some rather intense interpersonal dilemmas at the time... nevertheless, even the most egotistical of artistes (not to mention fans) could not have failed to notice that the work of the Egyptians had become rather, er, formulaic and predictable in those long dark days of 1989... Hence "Eye," which, in sparsity-of-arrangement, isolation-of-viewpoint, and forest-green-with-gold-details-color-scheme-of-album-jacket, is very much a companion piece to "I Often Dream of Trains," though in this case with somewhat evolved lyrical direction/focus - a songwriter writing from a vastly different headspace (this time full of dampness, food, seascapes and ghost-women, as opposed to trains, leaves, moorscapes, and grotesque figures of authority. Our lad had grown up a bit, and it shows. And how can you go wrong with an album whose first line is: "Na-po-le-an/wore a black hat/ate lots of chicken/and conquered half Europe"?