“Eye to Eye” by Go West

"Eye to Eye" was the fourth single Go West pulled from their self-titled 1985 debut, and it finds the English duo leaning hardest into R&B. Peter Cox and Richard Drummie wrote it, Gary Stevenson produced it for Chrysalis, and for the single the American synth-pop pair the System were called in to give it a remix.

The trade papers caught the tilt straight away. Cash Box made it a feature pick that August, hearing a soulful crossover bid, and in reviewing the 12-inch said the System's remix came out sounding like Hall & Oates. Billboard filed it under blue-eyed synth-soul and called it "Doobie-ish" into the bargain. The duo took it onto Soul Train that October, and it climbed to 73 on the Hot 100 and reached 32 on the dance club chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.