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Best Sellers From The ’90′s: Bush And “Sixteen Stone”

Michael Verity

Best Sellers From The 90's
1/11/2012
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Though not critically acclaimed, Gavin Rossdale’s songs about the big three (sex, death and religion) rang a bell with record buyers, pushing sales of Bush‘s Sixteen Stone into the millions.

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Though it was produced by UK hitmen Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley (who previous collaborations with Madness and Elvis Costello were decidedly “British-sounding”), Bush co-opted the American Modern Rock sound for their debut record, Sixteen Stone.

It was the MTV love of “Everything Zen” that turned US music fans onto the band in early ’95. It helped the album go gold and spawned three more modern rock hits: “Little Things,” “Comedown” and “Glycerine.”

Nirvana-inspired and homogenized for rock radio, Sixteen Stone has sold 6 million copies since its release in December 1994.