Song · The Smashing Pumpkins
“Eye” by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released 1996
“Eye” by The Smashing Pumpkins appears on 21 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1997 and 2008. It was first released in 1996. Its best result is #9 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #25 alternative song of 1997, #2,763 alternative song of all time and #175 of the '90s.
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"Eye" is the Smashing Pumpkins stepping sideways, a song Billy Corgan wrote, produced and mixed with Neil Perry for the soundtrack to David Lynch's film Lost Highway, released on Nothing Records and Interscope. It belongs to the stretch between Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Adore when the band scattered one-off tracks across compilations, "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" and "Christmastime" among them.
It was also the first song the band put out after firing drummer Jimmy Chamberlin the summer before, and it sounds like a group rethinking itself: dark, nocturnal and a little alien, a perfect fit for Lynch's world. It later found a place on the greatest-hits set Rotten Apples.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
| 1997 | 62 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1997 | 91 |
| 1997 | 21 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 | 105 |
| 1997 | 17 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997 | 101 |
| 1997 | 13 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997 | 100 |
| 1997 | 21 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
| 1997 | 44 | X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA | X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997 | 104 |
| 1997 | 29 | KNRK Portland, OR | KNRK Top 94 Songs of 1997 | 94 |
| 1997 | 46 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 | 103 |
| 1997 | 46 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 258 | KROQ | KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) | 300 |
| 1999 | 230 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 200 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 569 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 142 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
| 2004 | 419 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 663 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2006 | 248 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2006 | 469 | Live 105 | Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2007 | 199 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2008 | 328 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
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