Bush - Razorblade Suitcase C/D

That might either Blow or Suck.

No, but seriously. That might not be bad.

"Mouth" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard - especially that remix version from I Know What You Did Last Summer or whatever boring-mid-90s-teen-horror movie it was from.

Speaking of Canadianizing the band, I think that one thing that would have improved Bush immensely would have been replacing Gavin Rossdale with Gavin, that nerdy kid played by Bruce McCulloch in Kids in the Hall.

Speaking of Canadianizing the band, I think that one thing that would have improved Bush immensely would have been replacing Gavin Rossdale with Gavin, that nerdy kid played by Bruce McCulloch in Kids in the Hall.

-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...), June 12th, 2005.

OTFM!

Ha! pwned!!!

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They defined the archetypical English sound (that Bush sound nothing like)

I'm sure few people would agree, but "Greedy Fly" by itself I would throw into "classic." I'll accept "Swallowed," although it is a dud. They're both middle ground, just barely passing over the line of C/D.

OTM!

"Glycerine"

Must be your skin that I'm sinkin in
Must be for real cause now I can feel
and I didn't mind
it's not my kind
not my time to wonder why
everything's gone white
and everything's grey
now your here now you away
I don't want this
remember that
I'll never forget where your at
don't let the days go by
glycerine

I'm never alone
I'm alone all the time
are you at one
or do you lie
we live in a wheel
where everyone steals
but when we rise it's like strawberry fields

If I treated you bad
you bruise my face
couldn't love you more
you got a beautiful taste
don't let the days go by
could have been easier on you
I coudn't change though I wanted to
could have been easier by three
our old friend fear and you and me
glycerine (repeat)
don't let the days go by
glycerine

I needed you more
when we wanted us less
I could not kiss just regress
it might just be
clear simple and plain
that's just fine
that's just one of my names
don't let the days go by
could've been easier on you
glycerine

"Machine Head"

breathe in breathe out
breathe in breathe out
breathe in

breathe in breathe out
breathe in breathe out
breathe in

tied to a wheel fingers got to feel
(...???...)
i spin on a whim i slide to the right
i felt you like electric light
for our love
for our fear
for our rise against the years and years and years

got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red machinehead
got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red
and i walk from my machine
i walk from my machine

breathe in breathe out
breathe in breathe out
breathe in

deaf dumb and thirty
starting to deserve this
leaning on my conscience wall
blood is like wine
unconscious all the time
if i had it all again
i'd change it all

got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red machinehead
got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red
and i walk from my machine
i walk from my machine

breathe in breathe out
breathe in breathe out
breathe in
breathe in
breathe in

got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red machinehead
got a machinehead better than the rest
green to red
better than the rest
better than the rest
machinehead

and i walk from my machine
i walk from my machine

"Everything Zen"

There must be something we can eat
Maybe find another lover
Should I fly to Los Angeles
Find my asshole brother
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Dave's on sale again
We kissy kiss in the rear view
We're so bored
You're to blame

Try to see it once my way
Everything zen
Everything zen
I don't think so

Raindogs howl for the century
A million dollars a stake
As you search for your demi-god
And you fake with a saint
There's no sex in your violence
There's no sex in your violence

Try to see it once my way
Everything zen
Everything zen
I don't think so

I don't believe that Elvis is dead
I don't believe that Elvis is dead
I don't believe that Elvis is, Elvis is

There's no sex in your violence

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), June 13th, 2005. (later)

That wasn't the Beatles, that was Peter Sellers' cover of "A Hard Day's Night"

Ach. I had no choice, my then g/f was a HUGE Bush fan (stop giggling at the back there). I even got dragged along to see them a couple of times (they were quite tolerable live, actually).

As for Razorblade Suitcase, Cold Contagious, A Tendency To Start Fires and Bonedriven were pretty good. At least half of it is dreadful filler though. Everyone OTM on the appalling lyrics, btw.

I may be the only non-Bush-fan alive that thought their best was The Science Of Things, though. Perhaps it's just me.

A "friend" of mine in college, a friend whom I wrongly thought possessed pretty good taste in music, gave me 'Sixteen Stone' for my 18th birthday.
Thankfully our friendship was such that I opened it and said 'Why the hell did you buy me this? They suck!" and he was all "Oh but I heard good reviews, and 'Glycerine' is a really cool song...' - PFFFFFHHHTTTTTT! ...I still don't fucking know what Glycerine is about, and I still hate Bush. Curse them and their suitcases.

Anyway, I always thought of Bush as some bizarro-world, 90210 version of Nirvana, as if a grunge band had been auditioned boy-band style. Some of the singles hold up (I always dug "Comedown"), and Gavin has this interesting exhaling-through-the-nose-overtone thing happening in his vocals, but I don't think these guys are due for Hipster Reappraisal (tm) just yet. (And I can't help but think that they helped to usher in Three Doors Down and all those other awful "yarl" bands....)

"Don't make your babe say 'bye'... LISTERINE!"

Dud, though. Distorted, exhausting, filler-stuffed dud.

Swallowed was Top 10, nothing else they did was anywhere near that. Think they got more stick than they deserved for their image, sound. Aren't they and Def Leppard the biggest English bands in America in terms of record sales?

Sixteen Stone has 5 or 6 good songs, better than a lot of other radio friendly rock/grunge songs.

Razorblade Suitcase got a pretty funny 0 rating and review in NME/MM but again, its not that bad. Less good songs but the bad songs aren't as bad as in 16 Stone.

The Science Of Things is ... well, the same again. ish. Of the four I know of, its my preferred album. There's some really good songs on this, and its not just grunge by numbers. I may listen to it again to see if that still holds.

And there's a drab 4th album. In a word, "beh".

And now, Gavin has his new band Institute. Who sound just like Bush.

FWIW, Gavin Rossdale plays Stan Mortenson (!) in a film coming out soon.

A reconsideration.

"swallowed" is a surprisingly fun song to karaoke

maybe not "surprisingly" since it's natural fun to dig into rossdale's incoherent yet serious rock pose, similar effect with "lakini's juice"

not kidding, i'm unsurprised by slint, pj harvey and jesus lizard influence.

i really love this record tbh

You freak

it's part of my youth = i have a soft spot for it too. just don't read the lyric sheet. why did they include a lyric sheet?

OIC they've been mentioned several times upthread

My favourite album when I was 11. Even now I can't bring myself to renege on it—the nostalgia is overwhelming. I don't know if I could bear to hear it again, but I suspect 'Bonedriven' and 'Greedy Fly' would be tolerable, though just barely. Perhaps a few other tracks as well.

didn't have to check to see who revived it

lol

this album doesn't have a hook as massive as "comedown" or "glycerine" but is definitely way more even than sixteen stone and is a way richer listening experience in terms of sustained mood. it's way too long though and yes the lyrics are horrible, though i prefer word salad gavin to current intelligible mor sad gavin (i listened to the new single today. hoo boy)

sixteen stone is such a weird cynical record, all of the songs feel like exercises in either xeroxing an existing popular rock style or figuring out how basic songwriting even works

Ha, I was thinking of posting that new single in Rolling Worst Music.

sixteen stone is such a weird cynical record, all of the songs feel like exercises in either xeroxing an existing popular rock style or figuring out how basic songwriting even works

This is true but it also did have an excellent understanding of what made those styles click and resonate, and you could argue it did a fantastic job distilling all those sounds to their essence. This was one of my fav records for a time when I was super young, and I think I connected with it more than the albums it was ripping off because it was so blunt. Like now the gibberish lyrics of "Everything Zen" seem like a parody of early 90s grunge, but it couldn't have felt more spot on to 11-year old me.

Also they may have been ripping off everything, but they did it affectionately, which wasn't always the case with some of the later 90s alt-rock albums. I really don't think it was all that cynical; that was just the shit the guy was into at the time

just don't read the lyric sheet. why did they include a lyric sheet?

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, February 16, 2017 9:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I never liked Bush, but this basically applies to 90% of '90s 'alternative' music. Almost everything that I like from that era would've been improved immeasurably if it were wordless.

TBF, it mostly sounded wordless anyway.

That is indeed fair.

Awful band, awful album. Even at the time I thought they were a bit of a joke. I was always surprised about their Stateside popularity, but then later I realised that it was only because the Americans were looking for the next Nirvana and getting desperate.

this album doesn't have a hook as massive as "comedown" or "glycerine" but is definitely way more even than sixteen stone and is a way richer listening experience in terms of sustained mood. it's way too long though and yes the lyrics are horrible, though i prefer word salad gavin to current intelligible mor sad gavin (i listened to the new single today. hoo boy)

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),

but "Swallowed" is their best hook!

i agree, i'm mostly talking about the rest of the album

like they feel more like a real band than a pastiche of other contemporary bands on razorblade suitcase EXCEPT on "swallowed" which is a great fake pixies song

of course then they had the cliché industrial/electronic record and then the back-to-basics rock record so they were ultimately more of a kind of barely-sketched blueprint for a rock band than an actual rock band

Man they would have made a great fake rock band for a movie. That I would buy.

I mean this right here might as well be from the Chris Gaines CD booklet:

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^ Aww, look at that poor, tortured soul.

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