These Eyes

The Guess Who | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 2004)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000TAOAW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,102 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. These Eyes

2. Undun

3. American Woman

4. Clap For The Wolfman

5. When You Touch Me

6. Old Joe

7. No Sugar Tonight

8. Share The Land

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the guess who these eyes, October 8, 2005

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Gitters (Allendale, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: These Eyes (Audio CD)

These Eyes is a good, but very brief look at eight of The Guess Who's hits. For the price this is a good introduction to the Guess Who, but many fans will want more than a mere eight songs buy the Guess Who. Still These Eyes is a good, but rather incomplete collection of the Guess Who's hits.
5 stars for the music
3 stars for the value of package/lack of songs

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Rock at its best, June 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: These Eyes (Audio CD)

No classic rock collection is complete without this CD. Guess Who are one of the greatest classic rock bands of all time; their songs are original, timeless and fun.

4.0 out of 5 stars Guess Whom..., December 28, 2011

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Gregor von Kallahann - See all my reviews

This review is from: These Eyes (Audio CD)

I was a fan of the Chad Allan Guess Who (they of "Shakin' All Over" fame), but they vanished almost as soon as they arrived on the scene. So when a Canadian group called the Guess Who re-emerged a few years later, it was a cause for some excitement on my part. That excitement was pretty short lived though. I learned that Chad Allan was long gone and that vocal chores had shifted to Burton Cummings, who had the pipes and the polish, to be sure. But was it rock'n'roll?

Well, I was open to almost anything back then--IN THEORY--but somehow the "new" Guess Who left me cold. The three-chords and an attitude of the "Shakin' All Over" days had now become something a bit more..."lounge-y." It was all very commercial, and led to a slew of hits, and somehow tapped in to the emerging Zeitgeist of the '70s. Experimenalism was out, slick chic was in. It was a kinder, gentler brand of rock. Yes, you could still throw in a little social commentary ("American Woman," "New Mother Nature," and the hippie ethos of "Share the Land"), but in terms of the actual music, well, they may as well have been singing about champagne cocktails and nights on the town.

Oddly enough, I once read (maybe someone can post a response and tell me if this is true or not) that Cummings' idol was Jim(bo) Morrison. If that's true, though, maybe it does make a little sense. Morrison was a somewhat more conventional singer than his image would seem to imply. Cummings sings in about the same range, for the most part, and is actually a more agile and flexible vocalist than Morrison.

And that's what I've been noticing these past couple of weeks when I've found myself giving this bargain sampler (which I got even cheaper at a library book sale). Cummings' easy listening tendencies aren't quite as annoying to my (now)ancient years. The Guess Who was--guess what--OK after all. I'm glad I rediscovered them, on the one hand, and this CD proved a very inexpensive way to do so (and would have been even if I HAD paid full price).

That's not to say that I'm a true convert. I appreciate this music more than I did at 18 or 19. I'm hardly passionate about it now. The latter-day Guess Who was solid and solidly commercial band, with SOME aspirations to higher things--but not too many.

Put it this way: the Guess Who of the post-Cummings era may bring an occasional nostalgic tear to "These Eyes," but they'll never give me "quivers down my backbone...the shakes in my thighbone." To say nothing of the "shivers in my knee bone."