Sixteen Stone

Bush - Sixteen Stone
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Based on 3 reviews
1994 Ratings: #229 / 397
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Based on 114 ratings
1994 Ratings: #317
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ImplicitDoom
85

ᴛᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ ɢʀᴜɴɢᴇ ᴘʟᴜɴɢᴇ ᴡ/ ᴅᴏᴏᴍ & ꜱᴄᴏʀᴘɪ: PART 2/25
(THE Ⓖⓐⓥⓘⓝ Ⓕⓛⓞⓢⓢⓓⓐⓛⓔ CHRONICLES)

Now, looking into the reception of this band overall is a confusing mess, and maybe an off putting one at this, and maybe this band is just a big ball of mimickry (at least on this album) and maybe lead singer Gavin “Ross The Boss” Rossdale tries to be Kurt Cobain semi-often. All of those criticisms are ... read more

scorpi
84

ᴛᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ ɢʀᴜɴɢᴇ ᴘʟᴜɴɢᴇ ᴡ/ ᴅᴏᴏᴍ & ꜱᴄᴏʀᴘɪ

Part 2/25: A Crash Course In How To Tastefully Rip Off Nirvana

A lot of people are familiar with this band because of the mass amount of singles produced on Sixteen Stone, right at the beginning of the post-grunge era. These guys were one of the first big notable Nirvana worshippers, with frontman Gavin Rossdale channelling Kurt's throat-grating singing style and American accent ... read more

Indicate
69

Sixteen Stone isn't a horrible album by any means, I honestly think it's a good album in terms of the aspect of grunge (or post grunge), that being of course the catchy distorted riffs on most of the songs and the half way decent vocals by Gavin Rossdale, but this album will always be some what funny to me some of the songs on here are somewhat corny but what really tops it off is the lyrics on them it's hilarious to hear Gavin just talk about random shit most of the time because of the ... read more

CarolinaHeart
82

Yeah, its derivative and not artistically genuine but it happens to be a high quality ripoff. I really like the processed sound

Indicate
69

Sixteen Stone isn't a horrible album by any means, I honestly think it's a good album in terms of the aspect of grunge (or post grunge), that being of course the catchy distorted riffs on most of the songs and the half way decent vocals by Gavin Rossdale, but this album will always be some what funny to me some of the songs on here are somewhat corny but what really tops it off is the lyrics on them it's hilarious to hear Gavin just talk about random shit most of the time because of the ... read more

ImplicitDoom
85

ᴛᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ ɢʀᴜɴɢᴇ ᴘʟᴜɴɢᴇ ᴡ/ ᴅᴏᴏᴍ & ꜱᴄᴏʀᴘɪ: PART 2/25
(THE Ⓖⓐⓥⓘⓝ Ⓕⓛⓞⓢⓢⓓⓐⓛⓔ CHRONICLES)

Now, looking into the reception of this band overall is a confusing mess, and maybe an off putting one at this, and maybe this band is just a big ball of mimickry (at least on this album) and maybe lead singer Gavin “Ross The Boss” Rossdale tries to be Kurt Cobain semi-often. All of those criticisms are ... read more

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Track List

1Everything Zen
4:38
87
2Swim
4:55
73
3Bomb
3:22
72
4Little Things
4:24
84
5Comedown
5:26
81
6Body
5:42
68
7Machinehead
4:16
89
8Testosterone
4:19
62
9Monkey
4:00
59
10Glycerine
4:26
88
11Alien
6:34
76
12X-Girlfriend
0:45
63
Total Length: 52 minutes
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Added on: February 20, 2013