Sixteen Stone - Definition and Overview

Sixteen Stone
Album by Bush
Released	1994-12-06
Recorded	January, 1994
Genre	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 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

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

External links

• for lyrics (http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?album_detail=238)