Sixteen Stone
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| Sixteen Stone | ||
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| Missing image BushSixteenStone.jpg Album cover | ||
| Album by Bush | ||
| Released | 1994-12-06 | |
| Recorded | January, 1994 | |
| Genre | post-grunge | |
| Length | 52 min 38 sec | |
| Record label | Trauma records | |
| Producer | Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley & Bush | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 4 out of 5 | [1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:18q5g4entvoz) |
| Bush chronology | ||
| Sixteen Stone (1994) | Razorblade Suitcase (1996) | |
Sixteen Stone is a post-grunge album released by Bush in 1994 (see 1994 in music). Though the album was extremely popular, Bush was never able to escape comparisons of being a watered-down Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Gavin Rossdale and the other band members were technically accomplished musicians but were too late to catch on in the first wave of grunge music. A review in the Toronto Sun claims "The trouble with the rapid rise of any genre is that said genre will invariably be codified, its essence cynically reduced to a series of stylistic tics - a guitar sound here, a strategically ripped piece of clothing there - all easily reproducible, and all entirely beside the point."
On the Billboard Music Charts (North America), Sixteen Stone peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts.
In England, a stone is a unit of weight that equals about 14 pounds. Therefore, sixteen stone means 224 pounds or about 102 kilograms. When asked why Gavin chose the name Sixteen Stone for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lonely man... my friend, who called a phone number advertising a '21 year Scandinavian beauty, new in town.' When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone..."
In the booklet of Sixteen Stone, there is a heart and R + P. R + P stands for Rupert and Julie, two of Gavin's friends who died in a tragic boating accident along the Thames in England.
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Track listing
All tracks written by Gavin Rossdale.
- "Everything Zen" - 4:38
- "Swim" - 4:55
- "Bomb" - 3:22
- "Little Things" - 4:24
- "Comedown" - 5:26
- "Body" - 5:42
- "Machinehead" - 4:16
- "Testosterone" - 4:19
- "Monkey" - 4:00
- "Glycerine" - 4:26
- "Alien" - 6:34
- "X-Girlfriend" - :45
Personnel
- Clive Langer - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Paul Cohen - Photography, Cover Photo
- Caroline Dale - Cello
- Robin Goodridge - Drums
- David J. Holman - Mixing
- Paul Palmer - Mixing
- Danton Supple - Assistant Engineer
- Robert Vosgien - Mastering
- Alan Winstanley - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Winston - Vocals
- Gavyn Wright - Violin, Viola
- Bush - Producer, Engineer
- Dave Parsons - Bass
- Vincas Bundza - Harmonica
- Jasmine Lewis - Vocals
- Nigel Pulsford - Guitar, String Arrangements
- Gavin Rossdale - Guitar, Vocals
- Alessandro Vittorio Tateo - Vocals
- Mark Lebon - Photography
- Debra Burley - Coordination
- Jackie Holland - Coordination
- Gillian Spitchuk - Paintings
Charting singles
Billboard Music Charts (North America)
1995 Everything Zen Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 5 1995 Little Things Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 6 1995 Comedown Modern Rock Tracks No. 1 1995 Everything Zen Modern Rock Tracks No. 2 1995 Glycerine Modern Rock Tracks No. 1 1995 Little Things Modern Rock Tracks No. 4 1995 Comedown The Billboard Hot 100 No. 30 1996 Glycerine The Billboard Hot 100 No. 28 1996 Machinehead The Billboard Hot 100 No. 43 1996 Glycerine Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 4 1996 Machinehead Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 4 1996 Machinehead Modern Rock Tracks No. 4 1996 Glycerine Top 40 Mainstream No. 28
External links
- for lyrics (http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?album_detail=238)