Eye II Eye
| Eye II Eye | ||||
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| Released | 9 March 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
| Studio | Little America Studios, Austria | |||
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| Length | 62:49 | |||
| Label | East West (Europe) Koch (US) WEA Japan (Japan) | |||
| Producer | Peter Wolf | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 2/10 |
| Metal Hammer (GER) | 6/7 |
| Rock Hard | 3.5/10 |
Eye II Eye is the fourteenth studio album by the German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 1999. It is a radical departure in that Eye II Eye is much more pop-oriented than their previous work, which alienated some fans, despite the single "Mysterious" reaching number 26 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It is the first studio Scorpions album to feature James Kottak on drums and also the final Scorpions studio album to feature Ralph Rieckermann on bass guitar.
For the first (and, thus far, only) time, Scorpions released a song recorded largely in German, namely "Du bist so schmutzig" ("You are so dirty"), with few English lyrics by Kottak.