Song · Go West
“We Close Our Eyes” by Go West
Released 1985
“We Close Our Eyes” by Go West appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1999. It was first released in 1985. Its best result is #300 on the WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,734 alternative song of all time.
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Go West announced themselves in February 1985 with "We Close Our Eyes", the lead single from the English pop duo's self-titled debut, a song Peter Cox and Richard Drummie wrote together and hung on a synthesizer hook you could pick out from across the room. Chrysalis put it out, and Godley & Creme directed the video, parking the pair in front of stop-motion wooden artists' mannequins that dance along.
Britain took to it: it spent 14 weeks on the chart and peaked at number five in April. It went top 10 in Australia, Italy and New Zealand too, and in America it got to 41 on the Hot 100 and five on the dance club chart. That same April, Freddie Mercury talked it over with Molly Meldrum on Australia's Countdown and predicted big things for the band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 300 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 300 |
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