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Eyes of the World is the third studio album by guitarist Tony MacAlpine, released in 1990 on PolyGram Records. In a departure from his previous albums, Eyes of the World is more band-orientated than his usual solo work. It contains no instrumental tracks and is stylistically more straightforward; leaning more towards hard rock than neo-classical metal.

Track listing

"The World We Live In" – 4:06
"The Hard Way" – 4:14
"Escape the Hell" – 5:00
"Heartache Calling" – 5:07
"Tear It Down" – 4:40
"Take Me Back" – 4:47
"Wild Ride" – 3:39
"Cry a Tear" – 4:48
"Wrong to Love" – 5:31
"Summer's Gone" – 4:33
"Urban Days" – 5:00

Personnel

Tony MacAlpine – guitar, keyboard, keyboard bass, drum and keyboard programming, percussion, co-producer
Alan Sehorn – lead vocals
Mark Robertson – keyboard, vocals
Billy Carmassi – drums
Mike Jacques – bass guitar, vocals
Steve Fontana – tambourine, background vocals, drum and keyboard programming, producer

Additional musicians

Bill Zampa – drums on tracks 3, 8, 11
Mike Mani – drum and keyboard programming
Randy Jackson – bass guitar on tracks 2, 4, 9, 11
John Alderete – bass guitar on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11
Alan Lornie, Maria Khodorkosky, Maxine Prolman – violin
Kevin Chalfaunt, Bret Douglas, Melisa Kary, Christina Saxton, Davey Pattison – background vocals
Tracy Hill – French vocals on track 4

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+{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
-{{dablink|For the belief in growth, see [[Productivism]]}}
+| Name        = Eyes of the World
-{{Original research|date=December 2007}}
+| Type        = [[Album]]
-<!--  Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Producerism.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Grange movement|Grange]] poster depicting the independent, industrious farmer as the keystone figure in society.]] -->
+| Artist      = [[Tony MacAlpine]]
-'''Producerism''', sometimes referred to as "producer radicalism," refers to  a [[syncretic politics|syncretic]] ideology of [[populism|populist]] [[economic nationalism]] which holds that the productive forces of society - the ordinary worker, the small [[businessman]], and the [[entrepreneur]], are being held back by parasitical elements at both the top and bottom of the social structure.
+| Cover       = Tony_MacAlpine_-_1990_-_Eyes_of_the_World.jpg
+| Released    = {{Start date|1990}}
+| Recorded    = June 21–November 13, 1989 at Fantasy Studios in [[Berkely, California]] / Prairie Sun Studios in [[Cotati, California]]
+| Genre       = [[Hard rock]], [[glam metal]]
+| Length      = 51:25
+| Label       = [[PolyGram Records|PolyGram]]
+| Producer    = [[Steve Fontana]], [[Tony MacAlpine]]
+| Reviews     = * [[Allmusic]] {{Rating|3.0|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9fyxqq5ldhe link]
+| Last album  = ''[[Maximum Security (album)|Maximum Security]]''<br/>(1987)
+| This album  = '''''Eyes of the World'''''<br/>(1990)
+| Next album  = ''[[Freedom to Fly]]''<br/>(1992)
+}}
+'''''Eyes of the World''''' is the third studio album by [[guitarist]] [[Tony MacAlpine]], released in [[1990]] on [[PolyGram Records]]. In a departure from his previous albums, ''Eyes of the World'' is more [[band (music)|band]]-orientated than his usual solo work. It contains no [[instrumental]] tracks and is stylistically more straightforward; leaning more towards [[hard rock]] than [[neo-classical metal]].
-==General position==
+==Track listing==
+#"The World We Live In" – 4:06
+#"The Hard Way" – 4:14
+#"Escape the Hell" – 5:00
+#"Heartache Calling" – 5:07
+#"Tear It Down" – 4:40
+#"Take Me Back" – 4:47
+#"Wild Ride" – 3:39
+#"Cry a Tear" – 4:48
+#"Wrong to Love" – 5:31
+#"Summer's Gone" – 4:33
+#"Urban Days" – 5:00
+==Personnel==
-BULLSHITTT
+*[[Tony MacAlpine]] – [[guitar]], [[keyboard instrument|keyboard]], [[keyboard bass]], [[programming (music)|drum and keyboard programming]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]], [[record producer|co-producer]]
+*[[Alan Sehorn]] – [[singing|lead vocals]]
+*[[Mark Robertson (musician)|Mark Robertson]] – keyboard, [[singing|vocals]]
+*[[Billy Carmassi]] – [[drum kit|drums]]
+*[[Mike Jacques]] – [[bass guitar]], vocals
+*[[Steve Fontana]] – [[tambourine]], [[backing vocalist|background vocals]], drum and keyboard programming, [[record producer|producer]]
+===Additional musicians===
-==Past and present==
+*[[Bill Zampa]] – drums on tracks 3, 8, 11
+*[[Mike Mani]] – drum and keyboard programming
+*[[Randy Jackson]] – bass guitar on tracks 2, 4, 9, 11
+*[[John Alderete]] – bass guitar on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11
+*[[Alan Lornie]], [[Maria Khodorkosky]], [[Maxine Prolman]] – [[violin]]
+*[[Kevin Chalfaunt]], [[Bret Douglas]], [[Melisa Kary]], [[Christina Saxton]], [[Davey Pattison]] – background vocals
+*[[Tracy Hill]] – [[French language|French]] vocals on track 4
+[[Category:Tony MacAlpine albums]]
-FUCK MY ASSSS
+[[Category:1990 albums]]
-==Religion and social issues==
-SUCK MY DICKK
-==Unions and business==
-Producerists will tend to support skilled-craft [[trade unions]], as organizations of "ordinary men" creating goods beneficial to society, but oppose left-wing, revolutionary unions or those that claim to speak for the lower ranks of society in general. National, industrial corporations, that is, those that produce tangible goods in domestic facilities, are looked upon favorably, while international, globalized companies that engage in [[outsourcing]], "sending jobs abroad" or those that earn their profits from the abstract financial world are treated with hostility in Producerist circles. This disposition is sometimes referred to as "[[corporate nationalism|business nationalism]]." High tariffs and [[protectionist]] policies are regarded as not only beneficial to workers, but essential to the long-term survival of the domestic economy to counter the predatory practices of currency manipulation and illegal trade practices.
-The domestic innovators and patriotic industrialists such as [[Henry Ford]], [[Lee Iacocca]] and [[Sam Walton]] (whose Wal-Mart imports moved over 1.5 million jobs that might otherwise be in America to China between 1989 and 2003, a year after Walton's death.<ref>Scott, Robert E. "[http://www.epinet.org/workingpapers/epi_wp270.pdf U.S.-China Trade, 1989-2003: Impact on jobs and industries, nationally and state-by-state]." ''[[Economic Policy Institute]].'' January, 2005. Retrieved on [[August 29]], [[2006]].</ref>) are the heroes in this view of the business world, while the cost-cutting CEOs and unaccountable financiers are the villains.
-Historically, the Producerist attitudes towards corporation adopted to the changing concerns of the middle class. In [[William Jennings Bryan]]'s time the big corporations like railroads and mining interests were strongly disliked because they were an economic threat to the Producerist-minded small businessmen. Today, by contrast, the middle class tends to be corporate employees and so views corporations more favorably. Nationalist concerns about the decay of the national productive infrastructure due to outsourcing is also a fairly recent phenomenon in America, driven primarily by competition from Japan and China.
-==Disputing the "Producerist" label==
-While it does exist as a widespread if rarely commented-upon political position, it must be noted that often "Producerism" is an epithet used by Left-wing groups to disparage rival forms of economic dissent.
-Figures who have been called Producerist or associated with Producerism, although they may not use the term to describe themselves, include [[Ross Perot]], [[Pat Buchanan]] and more recently political commentator [[Lou Dobbs]]. Some have associated Producerism with the wider phenomenon of the [[Radical Middle]], but such comparisons remain controversial. In general, it can be said that the average Producerist tends more towards [[nationalism]] and [[anti-globalization]] than does the typical member of the Radical Middle.
-Perhaps a more salient distinction is this: The Radical Middle is of the opinion that "government doesn't work" and must be overhauled, that is, government is well-intentioned but dysfunctional. Producerism believes government as currently constituted is ill-intentioned but quite functional - actively advancing the interests of international capital and the servile underclass it manipulates for the votes it needs to stay in power.
-==See also==
-*[[William Jennings Bryan]]
-*[[Pat Buchanan]]
-*[[Consumerism]]
-*[[Arthur Griffith]]
-*[[Immigration debate]]
-*[[Know-Nothing Party]]
-*[[Mercantilism]]
-*[[Distributism]]
-*[[Social Credit]]
-*[[Middle Class]]
-*[[One New Zealand Party]]
-*[[Paleoconservatism]]
-*[[Populism]]
-*[[Radical Middle]]
-*[[Reform Party of the United States of America]]
-*[[Ross Perot]]
-==References==
-<references/>
-On Producerism and conspiracism and middle being squeezed, (Canovan 1981, 54-55; Kazin 1995, 35-36, 52-54, 143-144; Stock 1996, 15-86; Berlet and Lyons 2000, 4-6).
-On Producerist white supremacy and the attack on Blacks after The Civil War (Kantrowitz 2000, 4-6, 109-114, 153).
-*Berlet, C., and M. N. Lyons. 2000. Right-wing populism in America: Too close for comfort. New York: Guilford Press.
-*Betz, H-G. 1994. Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe.
-*Betz, H-G., and S. Immerfall, (eds.). 1998. The New Politics of the Right.
-*Canovan, M. 1981. Populism. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
-*Ferkiss, V. C. 1957. Populist influences on American fascism. Western Political Quarterly 10 (2): 350–373.
-*Fritzsche, Peter. 1990. Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany. New York: Oxford University Press.
-*Fritzsche, Peter. 1998. Germans into Nazis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
-*Kantrowitz, S. 2000. Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
-*Kazin, M. 1995. The populist persuasion: An American history. New York: Basic Books.
-*Laclau, E. 1977. Politics and ideology in Marxist theory: Capitalism, fascism, populism. London: NLB / Atlantic Highlands Humanities Press.
-*Lasch, Christopher. 1991. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
-*Payne, S. G. 1995. A History of Fascism, 1914-45. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press.
-*Postone, M. 1986. Anti-Semitism and National Socialism. In Germans & Jews since the Holocaust: The changing situation in West Germany, ed. A. Rabinbach and J. Zipes, 302–14. New York: Homes & Meier.
-*Shirer, William L. 1960. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster.
-*Stock, C. M. 1996. Rural radicals: Righteous rage in the American grain. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.
-==External links==
-'''In the Media'''
-*[http://www.slate.com/id/2153271/ Say Hello to the New Economic Nationalists (Slate.com)]
-'''Supportive'''
-*[http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/16/judis-j.html Why Democrats Must Be Populists] ''[[American Prospect]]'' article with a positive view of Producerism.
-*[http://producerism.org/about.html Producerism.Org] Neatly divides society into Producers and the "Looters" (elite) and "Moochers" (underclass) who exploit them.
-*[http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-are-wages-flat-and-inequality.html Producerist explanation of rising inequality (government in league with big business to create more regulations)]
-'''Opposing'''
-*[http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/producerism.html The Producerist Narrative in Repressive Right Wing Populism]
-*[http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/Nov2004/berlet1104.html Hard Right Styles, Frames & Narratives] Includes a short section on Producerism under "Populism."
-*[http://andrewcoyne.com/Essays/Magazines/Idler/PRIVILEGE%20-%20Idler.rtfd/TXT.html The Party of Privilege: The NDP Consensus and the Attack on the Poor] A critique accusing a Canadian political party of being Producerist.
-'''Scholarly'''
-*Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore (ISBN 0-271-01773-2) Book proposing a Jacksonian and [[evangelicalism|evangelical]] origin for Producerism
-*[http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=74-0066620481-0 Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life] Book that includes section on Producerist hostility towards financial capital.
-[[Category:syncretic political movements]]
-[[Category:Economic ideologies]]