Sixteen Stone

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Editorial reviews

Album Description
Special limited edition release, in a double slimline jewel case, adds an acoustic version of 'Come Down' to their triple platinum debut album and also includes a four track bonus disc of live recordings from March 1996. 17tracks.

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Amazon.com
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Nirvana should've been quite flattered by Sixteen Stone. The English quartet perfectly mimics the early '90s grunge sound with this '94 release. As for Kurt Cobain comparisons, singer Gavin Rossdale has a captivating voice, but lyrics are not his forte, as the splintered ramblings of "Everything Zen" indicates. (Gotta do better than "There's no sex in your violence.") The players meanwhile produce a perfectly competent approximation of their Northwestern heroes. "Little Things" is a successful rewrite of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" while "Machinehead" crunches like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. In fact, the whole album feels like a throwback to 1992. Sixteen Stone may be derivative, but it's catchy as hell, too. --Rob O'Connor

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-12-27 rating:
excellent cd
I am very pleased with my new Bush cd: Sixteen Stone. The sound is great; there are no scratches or problems. The quality of the cd was advertised accurately and honestly. Thank you!

Cheri Miller

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review by: Irony, Bi***s! date: 2008-11-10 rating:
Thanks Bush!
Thanks Bush, to making post-grunge a genre. Now, at least one banal audio suicide is still releasing albums (nickelback) and people are thinking it is the real thing, and I don't even like grunge.

There has to be some marketing tactics in this album. The fact that this comes from Britian right at the time of Kurt's death speaks volume for people who want another Nirvana. Grunge was purely developed in America, so it's hard to think Bush was not Britian's way to make money off of an Americna style. Nirvana was a _____ band, so perhaps that my reaction to this album will be harsher than Nirvana lovers, but the sound is just so slick of the original grunge, it's cearly marketed and safe for most.

This album is so damn deriative it hurts. Right down to the fake husky growl, Bush takes every single Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Pixies cliche out of the book and rips it off, right down to a Smells Like Teen Spirit riff-alike. All Bush's music has is some cathciness. However, that doesn't mean ______, because the catchiness mostly comes from The lyrics aren't really the problem, but they aren't that interesting, and are pretty much useless to me, anyway.

This is not alternative rock. This is where alternative rock truly loss that word, and when Indie rock became the new alternative once and for all. THanks Bush!

2.0/10

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review by: date: 2008-08-20 rating:
Solid, but not exceptional
This is the essential Bush album, so if you like their music pick it up. If you're just browsing and considering this one, Sixteen Stone has some great tracks on it, but those that aren't great sound like everything else that came out at the time. Not a bad album, but far from the legendary stuff put out around the same time by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, et cetera.

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review by: The Musician date: 2008-05-07 rating:
A Good Post-Grunge Era Album & Some Great Gems To Go Along
Bush released their self-debut album across seas in 1994,while Grunge was fading from the lime light, following the grunge movement they inspired the term 'post-grunge'. In Cloning the slow thick grunge format they brought some gems to the table such as the modern rock staple "Everything Zen" (Track 1), and power house "Machinehead" (Track 7).

Bush never really brought anything new to music industry but gained fortune from polishing the eras style and doing it in a fashionable manor. With the first few lines sung in "Glycerine" one could easily misinterpret it as Nirvana (vocally speaking, not so much the general slow orchestral tune).

Most of the album free flows but dabs into too lengthy of song durations and unnecessary tracks, but overall the first few listens hold up quite well in the general scheme of things.

"X-Girlfriend" is a nice little punkish pepped track to end the album, but this suffers from being too short. Unfortunately the songs are either too long or too short (again as previously mentioned), if balanced would of definitely benefited in the bands case. "Alien" is probably the best example of a dragged on song, slow kind of goes no where.

Overall the album holds up enough to have some replay value and not just for the singles, the lyrics are not the greatest but pass. "Sixteen Stone" is a bargain buy album.




review by: date: 2008-02-16 rating:
Classic
I bought this CD back in the 90's when it first came out and I still listen to it all the time. Every song on it is awesome, none of them feel like they're just on there to fill up space. I've been pulled over a few times for speeding while listening to "Machinehead."

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