(thing) by 409 Tue Sep 03 2002 at 8:47:02

"Because we're free from any constraints. At the end of the day, the best thing that we can do is just be fucking great." - Gavin Rossdale

Bush are: Robin Goodridge: Drums Dave Parsons: Bass Gavin Rossdale: Guitar, Vocals Nigel Pulsford: Guitar Winston: dog

When the members of Bush came together in 1992 they had grown sick of the music scene in Britain at the time. They had been weaned on punk and bands such as The Pixies and Bob Marley. Rossdale had already fronted various bands and released singles with bands such as Midnight, Parsons had been working with glam act Transvision Vamp, Goodbridge was doing session work and recording with The Beautiful People and Pulsford had been gigging as part of King's Blank.

The name of the band comes from the area where they started writing - Shepard's Bush. They have always been supported by Gavin's dog - Winston, a mass of fur with a cold, wet nose. Winston can been seen on the inside sleeve of Sixteen Stone.

Bush were one of the first British bands to make it big in America after the Nirvana / grunge era caved in on itself. They used the same methods to write songs that were clearly inspired by the same elements that had spawned the grunge music before it. With crashing guitars and well written lyrics, Bush have always remained slightly apart from the majority of British bands.

They have released five albums (Deconstructed is a remix album) and have had chart successes from all of the studio albums, with Machinehead, Comedown and Swallowed being the best known.

Gavin has had a stormy relationship with the singer of No Doubt - Gwen Stefani, although at the time of writing they are together and happy. CloudStrife reminds me that the couple were married recently.

Sixteen Stone (1994)

  1. Everything Zen
  2. Swim
  3. Bomb
  4. Little Things
  5. Comedown
  6. Body
  7. Machinehead
  8. Testosterone
  9. Monkey
  10. Glycerine
  11. Alien
  12. X-Girlfriend

Razorblade Suitcase (1996)

  1. Personal Holloway
  2. Greedy Fly
  3. Swallowed
  4. Insect Kin
  5. Cold Contagious
  6. A Tendency To Start Fires
  7. Mouth
  8. Straight No Chaser
  9. History
  10. Synapse
  11. Communicator
  12. Bonedriven
  13. Distant Voices

Deconstructed (1996)

  1. Everything Zen (Lhasa Fever Mix)
  2. Mouth (Stingray Mix)
  3. Swallowed (Goldie/Toasted Both Sides Please Mix)
  4. Synapse (Philip Steir/My Ghost In The Bush Of Life Mix)
  5. History (Dub Pistols Mix)
  6. Personal Holloway (Fabio Paras/Soundclash Republic Mix)
  7. Bonedriven (Mekon/Beat Me Clever Mix)
  8. Insect Kin (Jack Dangers/Drum and Bees Mix)
  9. Comedown (Lunatic Calm Mix)
  10. Everything Zen (Derek DeLarge Mix)
  11. In A Lonely Place (Tricky Mix)

The Science of things (1999)

  1. Warm Machine
  2. Jesus Online
  3. The Chemicals Between Us
  4. English Fire
  5. Spacetravel
  6. 40 Miles From The Sun
  7. Prizefighter
  8. The Disease Of Dancing Cats
  9. Altered States
  10. Dead Meat
  11. Letting The Cables Sleep
  12. Mindchanger

Golden State (2001) - produced by Dave Sardy (Marilyn Manson, System Of A Down)

  1. Solutions
  2. Headful of Ghosts
  3. The People That We Love
  4. Superman
  5. Fugitive
  6. Hurricane
  7. Inflatable
  8. Reasons
  9. Land of the Living
  10. My Engine is With You
  11. Out of This World
  12. Float

I like it!