The Greatest View
"The Greatest View" is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair, released on 28 January 2002 as the first single from their fourth studio album, "Diorama". This is one of three songs which made it onto the album (the other two being "World Upon Your Shoulders" and "Too Much of Not Enough") which Daniel Johns recorded using his Rickenbacker 12 string. "The Greatest View" peaked at 3 in Australia and at No. 4 in Canada and New Zealand. In 2008, it reached No. 36 on the US "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart due to an EP being  released by Warner Bros. Records. Origin. In an interview with the Associated Press in 2002, Daniel Johns said about the song: "The Greatest View" is a song that really focuses on people's perceptions of the same problem or the same scenario. Basically what was going on in my mind was that I had a lot of people who were watching over me and watching my every move making sure that I didn't fall back in to the heap that I fell in to whilst writing "Neon Ballroom". Because I was aware of that I felt like I had  the greatest view from where I was from because I could see what was going on. I was aware of the situation, I was in control of my own destiny really." Music video. A video was made in which the band plays in hotel room representing Daniel Johns' inner space which spies try to investigate and listen in on. At the end of the video, the whole hotel lifts up into the air playing on the words 'greatest view'. The music video was directed by Sean Gilligan and Sarah-Jane Woulahan from the Brisbane-based video team Squareyed Films. Director  Sean Gilligan uploded a high definition version of the music video to his YouTube channel on 19 April 2020. Track listings. Australian CD single UK CD and 7-inch single European and Canadian CD single US digital EP – 2007