Bush

The Best of '94 - '99
$31.98
I am a huge fan and this album is a must. Several great songs with a few okay at best songs. Well worth the price for a whole album verus the price for just the hits.

Comedown
$0.99

Sixteen Stone
$9.49
Bush. One word. Four cds. And a legacy as one of the most famous British post-grunge bands that were more popular across the pond than in their own homeland.
Formed in London in 1992 by singer/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford, they debuted with Sixteen Stone (1994) which is largely considered their best release and what propelled them to sell well over 10 million records in the United States.
Before that, in 1993, the band was signed by Rob Kahane, who had a distribution deal with Disney's Hollywood Records. The band completed the recording of Sixteen Stone in early 1994. However, the death of Disney executive Frank G. Wells and limited vision on the part of some execs in Hollywood, almost put Sixteen Stone in the rgave before it had a chance to breathe. Thankfully Kahane, knew how to use his rolodex and got a copy of the cd in the hands of someone with some pull at the LA radio station KROQ-FM which added "Everything Zen" to its rotation. Zen , it was, as it enlightened the music scene forever.
Let's take a re-listen at Sixteen Stone and find out if it still holds its weight....
If you can recall the feeling of how it was when you saw your first foreign film, you will understand Bush's "Sixteen Stone". The first 15 minutes or so have you lost as track one, two and three are murky, hard to understand and make you wonder what is going to happen next. Call it musical Truffaut. Thankfully it's "Little Things" and suddenly you don't need subtitles any more. "Come Down" follows and there you have it. Two tracks that bookmark the entire cd and give you an "ears up" of what Bush is truly capable of without murky production and sophomoric lyrics that put a Vaseline haze on the cd's beginnings.
While the goal is to produce a tight cd overall that rarely happens when there's filler in the cabinet. Yet one is more than happy to grant Rossdale and group some breathing room post "Come Down" which is a post-modernism ode to relationships if there ever was one.
A few of Pulsford's licks are a little too Nirvana-esque but then again the playground of 1994 only had a few musical monkey bars to swing from. Wade through and then you get another inkling in "Machine Head"- all is good because suddenly you can follow the dialect, the story makes sense, and you're willing to buy a ticket for the next screening.
4 Stars
-Kim Thore All Access Magazine

Razorblade Suitcase
$17.98
I've been working backwards chronologically buying Bush's albums and, as you might already know by now, Razorblade Suitcase is a much rougher, less polished production than its two successors. This works largely in the band's favour, suiting Rossdale's harsh rasp and giving Nigel Pulsford lease to tear any sound out of that axe between a crunch and a high-tensile shriek. It's good to see that amidst the ruggedness of the sound there's still some damn good melodies - something that (IMHO) put this band in front of some of America's largest grunge acts.