Look Into the Eyeball
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Look into the Eyeball is an album by musician David Byrne
, released on May 8, 2001. The radio edit of the hit of the CD, "Like Humans Do
", is a sample track of Windows XP
Home Edition (Service Pack 1), that can be played on Windows Media Player
"" is a Spanish language
song, performed with Nrü from Café Tacuba. The title means "Unknown I Am" in English.
A special edition of the release contained a second CD with these two tracks:
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
, released on May 8, 2001. The radio edit of the hit of the CD, "Like Humans Do
Like Humans Do
"Like Humans Do" is the fourth track from David Byrne's 2001 album Look into the Eyeball and was also released as a single that year. The radio edit version of the song was selected by Microsoft as the sample music for Windows XP to demonstrate the new Windows Media Player...
", is a sample track of Windows XP
Windows XP
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...
Home Edition (Service Pack 1), that can be played on Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
"" is a Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
song, performed with Nrü from Café Tacuba. The title means "Unknown I Am" in English.
Track listing
All songs written by David Byrne- "U.B. Jesus" – 3:49
- "The Revolution" – 2:15
- "The Great Intoxication" – 2:36
- "Like Humans DoLike Humans Do"Like Humans Do" is the fourth track from David Byrne's 2001 album Look into the Eyeball and was also released as a single that year. The radio edit version of the song was selected by Microsoft as the sample music for Windows XP to demonstrate the new Windows Media Player...
" – 3:32 - "Broken Things" – 4:29
- "The Accident" – 2:34
- "" – 2:38
- "Neighborhood" – 4:32
- "Smile" – 3:33
- "The Moment of Conception" – 2:55
- "Walk on Water" – 3:26
- "Everyone's in Love with You" – 2:27
A special edition of the release contained a second CD with these two tracks:
- "All Over Me" – 5:18
- "Princess" – 3:56
Personnel
- Thom BellThom BellThomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...
– Rhodes on "Neighborhood" - Herb Besson – tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
- Virgil Blackwell – clarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
on "Smile" - Kysia Bostic – back-up vocals
- Paulo Braga – percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
on "The Great Intoxication" - David ByrneDavid ByrneDavid Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
– vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
and guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
on "Walk on the Water", MellotronMellotronThe Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
on "Everyone's in Love with You", and timpaniTimpaniTimpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...
on "The Accident" - Vinicius CantuariaVinicius CantuáriaVinicius Cantuária is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and percussionist. He is associated with Bossa nova and Brazilian jazz. Originally from the Amazonian city of Manaus, Cantuária grew up in Rio and relocated to New York City in the mid-1990s...
– percussion on "The Great Intoxication" - Bob Carlisle – French horn
- Tara Chambers – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Vivian Cherry – back-up vocals
- Greg CohenGreg CohenA native of Los Angeles, bassist Greg Cohen has been playing in various acclaimed music groups since the '60s. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar...
– upright bass - Imani CoppolaImani CoppolaImani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist probably best known for her 1997 hit "Legend of a Cowgirl" which sampled the instrumentals from "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan...
– back-up vocals on "Everyone's in Love with You" - Nick Cords – violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
- Michael DavisMichael Davis (trombonist)Michael Davis is a jazz trombonist from San Jose, California.He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.Davis has worked with famous singers and bands, for example The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson. Nowadays he gives music clinics all over the world and writes...
– trombone - Larry Etkin – flugal horn and trumpet on "Broken Things"
- Bruno Eicher – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Arlen Fast – bassoonBassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
on "The Accident"" - Paul Frazier – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Robert Funk – trombone on "Broken Things"
- Karen Griffin – piccoloPiccoloThe piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written...
- Dawn Hannay – viola
- Jim Hayes – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
on "Like Humans Do" - Birch JohnsonBirch JohnsonBirch "Crimson Slide" Johnson is an American trombonist. He is a first call studio trombonist, Emmy nominated composer, producer and songwriter based in New York City. For 10 years, Birch was a member of the "Blues Brothers Band" and appeared, as an actor, in the movie "Blues Brothers 2000". He...
– trombone on "Broken Things" - Bradley JonesBradley JonesBradley Scott "Brad" Jones is an Australian football player who plays for Liverpool as a goalkeeper. He was a member of the Middlesbrough team for over a decade, and also had a number of loan spells at a succession of lower league clubs; Shelbourne, Stockport, Rotherham, Blackpool and Sheffield...
– bass on "The Revolution", baby bass on "Everyone's in Love with You" - Rodd Kadleck – trumpet
- Vivek Kamath – viola
- Lisa Kim – violin
- Judy Leclair – bassoon on "The Accident""
- Ken LewisKen LewisKen Lewis may refer to:*Ken Lewis , former head of Bank of America*Ken Lewis , session drummer*Ken Lewis *Kenneth Lewis, UK politician...
– bass and keyboards - Eileen Moon – cello
- Kristina Mosso – violin
- Maxim Moston – violin
- NrüNRUNRU may refer to:* National Reform Union , the formal name for the Reform Union, a minor, yet significant pressure group within the United Kingdom that demanded a secret ballot, extension of the franchise and equal sized constituencies in relation to the democratic process...
– vocals on "Desconocido Soy" - Suzanne Ornstein – violin
- Sandra Park – violin
- Rajnhidur Pejursdottir – violin
- Shawn PeltonShawn PeltonShawn Pelton is a New York City-based studio and session drummer. Pelton has worked with the Backstreet Boys, Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion and Billy Joel...
– drum kitDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
and percussion - Susan Pray – viola
- Dan Reed – violin
- Mauro Refosco – percussion
- Robert Rinehart – viola
- Stewart Rose – French horn
- Roger Rosenberg – baritone saxophoneBaritone saxophoneThe baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
- Marlon SaundersMarlon SaundersMarlon Saunders is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. A professor of voice at Berklee College of Music, Marlon has two solo recordings on his independent label, Black Honey Records: the improvisational A Groove So Deep: The Live Sessions and 2003's critically acclaimed Enter My Mind...
– back-up vocals - Laura Seaton – violin
- Sarah Seiver – cello
- Fiona Simon – violin
- Alan Stepanksy – cello
- John Vercesi – Rhodes on "The Revolution"
- Shelley Woodworth – English horn on "The Great Intoxication"
- Sharon Yamada – violin
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | 2001-05-08 | Virgin Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny... |
CD | 50924 |