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Sixteen Stone
Studio album by Bush
Released	December 6, 1994
Recorded	January, 1994
Genre	Post-grunge
Length	52:38
Label	Trauma/Interscope/Atlantic
Producer(s)	Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley & Bush
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Bush chronology
	Sixteen Stone (1994)	Razorblade Suitcase (1996)

Sixteen Stone is a post-grunge album released by Bush in 1994 (see 1994 in music). Though the album was extremely popular, Bush was never able to escape comparisons of being a watered-down Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Gavin Rossdale and the other band members were technically accomplished musicians but were too late to catch on in the first wave of grunge music. A review in the Toronto Sun claims "The trouble with the rapid rise of any genre is that said genre will invariably be codified, its essence cynically reduced to a series of stylistic tics - a guitar sound here, a strategically ripped piece of clothing there - all easily reproducible, and all entirely beside the point."

On the Billboard Music Charts (North America), Sixteen Stone peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts. The album spawned no less than 5 Top 40 singles.

In the UK, a stone is a unit of weight that equals 14 pounds. Therefore, sixteen stone means 224 pounds or about 102 kilograms. When asked why Gavin chose the name Sixteen Stone for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lonely man... my friend, who called a phone number advertising a '21 year Scandinavian beauty, new in town.' When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone..."

In the booklet of Sixteen Stone, there is a heart and a dedication to Rupert and Julie, two of Gavin's friends who died in a tragic boating accident along the Thames in England.

The CD and case have a picture of what looks like a bush or mop head flying through the air. This is actually Gavin's dog named Winston. A Puli, a breed of dog with dreadlock like cords, that has been tossed in the air or is jumping. Beck used the same affect in 1996 with a Komondor, a nearly identical looking dog, on his album Odelay which looks like a mop jumping a hurdle.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Charting singles 4 External links

All tracks written by Gavin Rossdale.

1. "Everything Zen" – 4:38
2. "Swim" – 4:55
3. "Bomb" – 3:22
4. "Little Things" – 4:24
5. "Comedown" – 5:26
6. "Body" – 5:42
7. "Machinehead" – 4:16
8. "Testosterone" – 4:19
9. "Monkey" – 4:00
10. "Glycerine" – 4:26
11. "Alien" – 6:34
12. "X-Girlfriend" – 0:45

Early pressings of the album do not list "Alien" on the back cover (there is a blank space where the title should be). "Monkey" is also missing from the inside cover, but both songs have lyrics printed and appear on the album.

Subsequent pressings also include an acoustic version of "Comedown" and a second CD of live tracks, "Swim," "Alien," "Bomb," and "Little Things." Rather than actually being acoustic, the bonus "comedown" track is actually Rossdale singing and playing guitar with more effects. This version is also slower paced, has violins added and has no drums or bass guitar.

• Clive Langer – Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Paul Cohen – Photography, Cover Photo
• Caroline Dale – Cello
• Robin Goodridge – Drums
• David J. Holman – Mixing
• Paul Palmer – Mixing
• Danton Supple – Assistant Engineer
• Robert Vosgien – Mastering
• Alan Winstanley – Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Winston – Vocals
• Gavyn Wright – Violin, Viola
• Bush – Producer, Engineer
• Dave Parsons – Bass
• Vincas Bundza – Harmonica
• Jasmine Lewis – Vocals
• Nigel Pulsford – Guitar, String Arrangements
• Gavin Rossdale – Guitar, Vocals
• Alessandro Vittorio Tateo – Vocals
• Mark Lebon – Photography
• Debra Burley – Coordination
• Jackie Holland – Coordination
• Gillian Spitchuk – Paintings

Billboard Music Charts (North America)

1995    Everything Zen  Mainstream Rock Tracks                  No. 5
1995    Little Things   Mainstream Rock Tracks                  No. 6
1995    Comedown        Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 1
1995    Everything Zen  Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 2
1995    Glycerine       Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 1
1995    Little Things   Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 4
1995    Comedown        The Billboard Hot 100                   No. 30
1996    Glycerine       The Billboard Hot 100                   No. 28
1996    Machinehead     The Billboard Hot 100                   No. 43
1996    Glycerine       Mainstream Rock Tracks                  No. 4
1996    Machinehead     Mainstream Rock Tracks                  No. 4
1996    Machinehead     Modern Rock Tracks                      No. 4
1996    Glycerine       Top 40 Mainstream                       No. 28

• Sixteen Stone lyrics