Sixteen Stone

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."

Related Topics:
Post-grunge - Bush - 1994 - 1994 in music - Nirvana - Pearl Jam - Gavin Rossdale

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On the Billboard Music Charts (North America), Sixteen Stone peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts.

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In the UK, a stone is a unit of weight that equals about 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..."

Related Topics:
UK - Stone - Pound - Kilogram - Scandinavia

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

Related Topics:
Booklet - Thames

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