Sixteen Stone

Sixteen Stone
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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.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Gavin Rossdale.

  1. "Everything Zen" - 4:38
  2. "Swim" - 4:55
  3. "Bomb" - 3:22
  4. "Little Things" - 4:24
  5. "Comedown" - 5:26
  6. "Body" - 5:42
  7. "Machinehead" - 4:16
  8. "Testosterone" - 4:19
  9. "Monkey" - 4:00
  10. "Glycerine" - 4:26
  11. "Alien" - 6:34
  12. "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

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