Don't Let the Dayyys POLL By: Bush Singles

One of my friends gave me "16 Stone' for my birthday in college - it's the only time I've ever been openly pissed off about a birthday present. Mainly because a) he was kind of a dick anyway so he wouldn't take it badly and b) he knew my music tastes pretty well and I was furious that he thought I would like it, lol

forgot to explore the oeuvre, voted "comedown" since it was the one i most would enjoy hearing at the moment

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

admittedly there's not really RIGHT results for something like this but these are shockingly rong

23 people who voted are not nuts

haha not unexpected results

i personally didn't expect "Swallowed" to beat 4/5ths of the Sixteen Stone singles and a song i've never heard of to beat 2/5ths of them!

btw holy crap Razorblade Suitcase went 3x plat? i thought for sure it was a Fairweather Johnson but perhaps it's a New Jersey.

Letting the Cables Sleep 2
wtf is this

the third single from the album with "The Chemicals Between Us" on it, apparently.

would vote for almost anything over "Glycerine," including "Kiss The Rain"

as in billie myers?

I'll still halfheartedly rep for most of 16 Stone. If they had any songs with coherent lyrics it would be easier.

On the other hand, Jesus Christ wtf is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6moTlBDUaA

as in billie myers?

― billstevejim, Thursday, August 9, 2012 9:08 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes, it was based on desmond child's mondegreen of "glycerine"

Come, Togheter!

Thanks for voting, everybody.

Razorblade Suitcase somewhere between a Fairweather Johnson and a Be Here Now IMO. Might just be a Bad Album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqw8_EyXEOA

can't believe the only single anybody outside of the US has ever heard came 2nd

can't believe i didn't do the "more like fanny" one-liner

can't believe people didn't believe these were better than some pop crap

Glycerine is fucking awful, what the fuck fam

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

so "Swallowed" is their international hit? what the hell

i know! you'd think one of the other massively different and distinguishable singles wd've set the world on fire

now i wish i had thrown a vote to inflatable

JUSTICE

Razorblade is definitely a fairweather johnson - sixteen went 6x platinum during a window from jan '95 to april '97, Razorblade went 3x platinum from Nov '96 to July '97. People were just in the Bush-purchasing mood, razorblade really never achieved a life of its own.

which is why the Razorblade singles getting a respectable 15 votes vs. Sixteen Stone's 22 votes surprised me

you forget we are people who know who steve albini is

america may not care, but future rock critics and nerds took note

48 votes for a Bush poll? Huh

"that indie guy in chem class says the new one sounds like 'surfer' music but I don't hear it"

but even kids like me at the time, as well as adult critics, saw the Albini hiring as a pretty transparent grab for cred and/or even more Nirvana comparisons! it's not like that album won skeptics over to the extent of The Bends or even Purple. (xpost)

glycerine is so bad

the string bit at the end is pretty cool tho

yeah, could be salvaged as a loop for some "Bittersweet Symphony" type thing, but song itself is the biggest turd.

i cannot believe this many people voted in this poll. these songs are terrible.

but even kids like me at the time, as well as adult critics, saw the Albini hiring as a pretty transparent grab for cred and/or even more Nirvana comparisons! it's not like that album won skeptics over to the extent of The Bends or even Purple.

"swallowed" did, though. in a sense it's their "lakini's juice"

Yeah, "Machinehead" was like Top 10 for the year '96 airplay-wise.

― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:04 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess people felt it was better than the rest

― nakhchi little van (some dude), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this made me laugh, then mad at myself for remembering lyrics to "machinehead"

lol

honestly i had no real sense anyone especially liked "Swallowed" for 16 years before this poll

jesus christ, sixteen years

jesus christ, sixteen stone

jesus christ.

re "Swallowed" at the time I thought, "Oh, well, Albini did improve them" but then a girl who liked Mazzy Star brought Razorblade Suitcase into the newsroom and we all cleared our throats and played The Saint soundtrack for the nth time.

"swallowed" did, though. in a sense it's their "lakini's juice"

since when did lakinis juice win people over

"Lakini's Juice" C or D?

"their finest track" - miccio
"my favorite Live single" - Herbert Herbert
"the only Live song that doesn't make me vomit and/or laugh" - VegemiteGrrl

tbf me and herb are friends from high school but both "lakini" and "swallowed" are TA-DAAAAA first singles from follow-ups that boldly announced the band's desire to take corporate rock in bold directions so no shock 10+ ilxors dig 'em in polls

did i mention them shits were bold cuz brother they were bold

I think we've touched on this before as a general pattern of the way alt-rock records got marketed (commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996 , Stylus's Top Ten Momentum Killing Follow-Up Singles to Breakthrough Post-Grunge Albums) - actually, it was you and billstevejim that really made me notice this pattern of the grating, noisy, BOLD first single with the intended mainstream rock/pop hit waiting in the wings. In hindsight a really weird strategy, very specific to that moment in time.

One stone unturned: who started that trend? Within alt-rock it probably traces really easily to Nevermind but does it have deeper roots?

earlier example: "welcome to the jungle" followed by "sweet child o' mine"