Released March 25, 1974 Open Our Eyes
(1974) Another Time
(1974) Release date 25 March 1974 | Length 39:52 Artist Earth, Wind & Fire Label Columbia Records | |
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Recorded August 1973, Caribou Ranch
Nederland, Colorado, U.S. Genres Funk, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Jazz Producers Maurice White, Joe Wissert, Charles Stepney Similar Earth - Wind & Fire albums, Rhythm and blues albums | ||
Open Our Eyes is the fifth studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1974 on Columbia Records. The album went to number one on the R&B Charts and number 15 on the Pop Charts. Open Our Eyes contained the Billboard charting singles, "Mighty Mighty" (R&B #4, Pop #29), "Devotion" (R&B #23, Pop #33) and "Kalimba Story" (R&B #6, Pop #55). The album was made available in a digitally remastered version in 2001, which includes 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Open Our Eyes has been certified platinum in the US by the RIAA.
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Reception
Yahoo Music calls Open Our Eyes "simply superb" and Robert Christgau in his review of the album describes it as a "fucking tour de force." Devotion has been sampled by Yo-Yo featuring Ice Cube on the track "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo" featured on her album Make Way for the Motherlode. "Drum Song" was sampled by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes on the single "The Block Party" that was featured on her 2001 album Supernova.
Songs
1Mighty Mighty3:03
2Devotion4:50
3Fair But So Uncool3:40