Sixteen Stone
Sixteen Stone is a
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.
Track listing
- "Everything Zen" (Rossdale) - 4:38
- "Swim" (Rossdale) - 4:55
- "Bomb" (Rossdale) - 3:22
- "Little Things" (Rossdale) - 4:24
- "Comedown" (Rossdale) - 5:26
- "Body" (Rossdale) - 5:42
- "Machinehead" (Rossdale) - 4:16
- "Testosterone" (Rossdale) - 4:19
- "Monkey" (Rossdale) - 4:00
- "Glycerine" (Rossdale) - 4:26
- "Alien" (Rossdale) - 6:34
- "X-Girlfriend" (Rossdale) - :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
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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