Sixteen Stone

Occupation

  • Guitar / Vocals: Gavin Rossdale
  • Guitar: Nigel Pulsford
  • Bass: Dave Parsons
  • Drums: Robin Goodridge

Production

  • Alan Winstanley
  • Bush

Sixteen Stone is the debut album by British post-grunge band Bush. It was published in 1994 in Germany.

History

Sixteen Stone was published in 1994 as the grunge movement after the dissolution of their former flagship Nirvana seemed coming to an end. But Bush had with the release of Sixteen Stone are just beginning their careers.

The album was recorded Trauma Records in London, England for the unknown label. In Europe the album was initially received little attention. The big breakthrough came in the U.S., as the Los Angeles-based rock radio station KROQ the song Everything Zen played in heavy rotation. There followed a 18- month tour with more than 300 performances.

Facts

  • All songs on Sixteen Stone wrote Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale.
  • Sixteen Stone contained five singles: Everything Zen, Little Things, Comedown, Machinehead and Glycerine.
  • The album Sixteen Stone peaked in the German album charts in the week 31 1995 at 68th the highest placing.

Songs

Title list

Glycerine

The music video for Glycerine was filmed when the band was on tour in the USA. They had very little time for the shoot, as the visa of the band was already expired. Nevertheless, the video was highly praised and won numerous awards, including the People's Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1996. As the famous producer Desmond Child Glycerine heard, he thought that Rossdale is "Kiss the Rain" would sing. When he found out that this was not the case, he wrote a song called Kiss the Rain Billie Myers for. Kiss the Rain was Myers 's first single, and reached number 15 in the U.S. charts.

This and That

  • In the United Kingdom a Stone was a measure of weight. A Stone are about 6.4 kilograms. Thus, 16 Stone about 102 kilograms. When asked what the album title meant Sixteen Stone said Rossdale: "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 what forty years old and sixteen stone ... " ( in German as: " some time ago, there was a lonely man ... my friend, this man called a phone number on the Scandinavian for a 21- year-old beauty that is new to the city, promoted. , when he met her she was 40 years old and 16 stone hard ... " )
  • After the release of Sixteen Stone Bush was often rumored that they had only one copy of Nirvana. Rossdale was even assumed he would try the voice of Kurt Cobain to imitate. From these allegations the band to this day could not completely dissociate.
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