Bush - Sixteen Stone

One of the great against-all-odds stories of the 1990s. Recorded at Westside Studios in London in January 1994 and produced by veteran British duo Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, Sixteen Stone was initially passed over by Hollywood Records, who told Bush there were no singles on the record. Interscope thought differently, and rescued what would become one of the biggest selling debut albums of the decade from the scrap heap.

The rest is very loud history. When Los Angeles radio station KROQ picked up "Everything Zen" and put it into heavy rotation, the floodgates opened. By April 1995 the band were playing arenas, and by the end of 1997 Sixteen Stone had sold over six million copies in the United States alone, achieving six-times platinum certification from the RIAA and peaking at number four on the Billboard 200. Singles "Comedown" and "Glycerine" each reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, with "Machinehead" and "Little Things" further cementing Bush as one of the defining rock acts of their era.

Gavin Rossdale, Robin Goodridge, Dave Parsons, and Nigel Pulsford delivered a debut packed with distorted guitars, introspective lyrics, and hooks sharp enough to cross over from alternative radio to the mainstream without losing a drop of their edge. A cornerstone of the post-grunge era, presented here in a remastered edition that sounds better than ever.