Gavin Rosdale has an amazing voice!!!! He was extremely cordial when i met him at a concert back stage here here in Buffalo, he kept getting us drinks and honestly he smelled like roses!!!! The entire band was amazing!!!!
Didn't expect to see this one covered, I haven't heard it in ages... it wasn't a huge single but definitely crept up in the backgrounds of parties/hangouts/etc. in the late 90's for sure. Thanks for the time-travel
The guitar sound you keep trying to describe is called distortion. You have clean guitar and distorted guitar as the primary difference in sound with a million degrees in between. Love you guys!
Thanks for staying with Bush. Such a great 90's band. Alternative stations like KROQ in California played Bush before the main stream stations like KLOS started playing them. I just think its great rock. Please do Comedown next. Keep rocking.
Bush have such a varied tempo with their music but like others say comedown is an awesome track sixsteen stone was my album, reminds me of my mountain biking days.
Couldn’t have said it better: “ Grunge is the gem of the nineties! “ check out :” Letting the cables sleep “ by Bush… and FYI : Gavin is rumored to be pretty well endowed. According to Rolling Stone Magazine
@@Valorius : Absolutely . Even Ratt and Jackal put out some mean tunes in the 90’s … but Grunge did burn bright in their own epoch without compare ; just as Hard Rock and Hair Metal reigned supreme in the 80’s .
Alien is my favorite bush track second is mouth off of their second album. I can't believe someone else even mentioned it. No one ever talks about that song...and they should, thank you.
Saw them live a few years back. Gavin is still rocking it. I wish I had been alive and able to see them at Woodstock '99 though. That performance was amazing.
I agree 💯 percent Lex, growing up in the 70's,80's,then playing in the 90's,then listening to all of the music in the 2000's,if I listen to anything for the most part it's from the 90's, not always but most of my favorite bands are from the 90's.Soundgarden,AIC,Rage.STP, Oasis,Bush Limp Biscuit Pearl Jam, Nirvana,FF',Tool, even had Priest with Painkiller,then at the very end in 99 Disturbed came out and alot of the Nu-Metal bands before or around that time.
I loved this album when it came out..I haven't heard it in awhile but it's still good. There is a difference between over processed music and good live bands. You can hear it in the actual bands in the 90's..a lot less good ones these days.
Alternative music umbrella (rock, alt dance music, punk rock, nu- metal, rap-rock, , alt/indie rock, grunge/post grunge, ska punk, etc), R&B and Rap/ Hip Hop were the gems 💎 of the '90s. We loved all of that. I was a teen and young adult back then. Also the music Lex described back in the '80s was new wave, post punk, synth pop, etc. We as kids loved that too 😆. Thrash evolved from the '80s BTW. Metal, punk influence. Good too.
Bush is post-grunge. They were inspired by grunge rather than what had inspired grunge. I read that Gavin Rossdale decided to learn to play guitar in his early 20s after a Nirvana concert.
Bush is British Grunge. The little things that kill... "The little death" or "La petite mort" is what classy french literature calls an orgasm. The song is about orgasms, it is the little things.
The best part of the 90's is that it was us people that liked what we want and record labels were playing what we wanted. And good music was everywhere in every genre. It was a decade of great music everywhere.
Thrash is actually from the 80s originally. Bush is Grunge-y, but they came right after the original Grunge bands. Bush was mid-90s and the original Grunge movement started in the early 90s. Metallica's 90s stuff isn't really Thrash. It is hard rock and heavy metal, so I'd say 90s Metallica was grunge-adjacent because both Metal and Grunge are Hard Rock genres. Grunge had some influences from Thrash, especially the 80s Grunge that never really went mainstream, lots of bands from Sub Pop records. Grunge combined Punk, especially Hardcore Punk with Classic Rock/Old School 70s Metal. Hardcore punk and Thrash are cousins because both were fast hard rock genres born in the late 70s early 80s. Groups like Motorhead are liked by both punks and metalheads. The Exploited and Motorhead did an epic show together in the 80s. Bad Brains are a hardcore Punk group and I would say they pioneered a lot of the Alternative and Grunge sounds because they were moving away from hardcore punk and incorporating metal and pop influences. Compare Nirvana's track "In Bloom" to Bad Brains' "Reignition". Also Bad Brains are Brothas and Punk rock was also pioneered by a group of Brothas from Detroit called "Death" back in 1974, three years before Punk became a phenomena. Meanwhile, Thrash took elements of 70s metal, New Wave British Heavy Metal and punk, especially Hardcore Punk.
I feel like music and entertainment in general were the best part of the nineties in the US… not just grunge. It was the last decade not completely watered down and in a lot of cases… ruined by the music and entertainment industry. Less CGI, less censorship, somewhat longer more meaningful songs, more artistic freedom. We didn’t have tech at our finger tips… music and movies actually had to be good to be heard about and become popular… in most cases at least.
Aww, you're going through the songs of my childhood! Bush is one of my favorite bands! Please listen to Glycerine and Comedown, I think you will enjoy those!!!
80's was thrash and glam-metal. 90's was grunge starting in the early 90's and nu-metal starting in the mid-90's, as well as industrial metal throughout the 90's. There was also post-grunge which was the second wave of grunge bands (must more mainstream sounding) that came AFTER bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, etc.
Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, STP and Nirvana are first wave late80's early 90's, if it weren't for them most people wouldn't know what grunge is it's not like Screaming Trees and Tad were hugely marketed and no one listens to Blind Melon and connects them to Grunge.
The Radio Station here in Orlando WJRR 101.1 Played BUSH all the time. They had So many great song's. They Played several Song's on Two For Tuesday. 🐊🌞😎🤔😳☮️🌴😬
I would call this alternative rock but there's definitely a lot of grunge elements in alt rock ... a lot of 90s groups liked to mix genres And Lex is right... a lot of trends in the 90s were people veering away from the glam rock, hair metal and synth pop of the 80s. So a lot of 90s bands wanted to have a more raw sound. You still had a lot of pop groups in the 90s of course but the "alt" scene was more gritty and grungy in how they sounded and dressed
Okay. So Bush is a British Band directly influenced by Grunge and other modern and classic rock music. Gavin jasbthat gravelly gritty vocal fry associated with Grunge singers in particular, but not exclusive to just that genre either. They are NOT Grunge as per the many things that created that category. Because of the power and the clean capabilities within that grit of Gavin's vocals, coupled with clean tight heavy sound of the band within the songs; Bush was extremely radio friendly and had tons of air time. They are fantastic live!!! And the fact that Gavin as the frontman is also extremely good looking to anyone with eyeballs probably definitely helped with making the super marketable!!! But that album in it's entirety really is a musical piece of art!!! No Cap!!! 😉
Brad doesn't know Grunge lol. This is VERY Grunge. This basically was a carbon copy of Nirvana's sound (a lot of bands came out with this sound after Nirvana's "Nevermind" popularized Grunge). But not all Grunge bands sounded like this either. That's very important to note. For example, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains don't sound anything like this but they're also classified as Grunge.
Bush is my favorite Band still. You should definitely check out more songs. Their older songs are classics and they have a lot good ones on the newer ones too and on Gavin's solo stuff. I would start with the singles and then also move to the better ones that aren't radio ones. I'll make a list but need some time.
I love bush because of its awesome simplicity. As a guitarist I wouldn’t say beginner but their chords and riffs are scarily simple to riff to. Been discovering Bush recently and loving a lot of their newer stuff. Also discovered institute from “stealth” because I saw it the other day. Cracking and and Gavin is an annoyingly good looking guy as well lol.
Yeah, the basic riffs are simple, but Nigel had a magic touch. I loved his slide parts and weird bends. He loved adding dissonance. After Nigel left, the new albums had lots of fillers.
Bush is a great band. I remember way back when they were Bush X. When is The Couch gang gonna check out some more Chris Stapleton? Yawl need to check out some of his own songs to see his song writing skills.
Bush singer Gavin and No Doubt (ska punk band) singer Gwen Stefani were a very good looking couple back then 😆. Had some kids from that marriage, before splitting up. Hey. Never try to figure out Bush song lyrics. They rarely ever make any sense. Lol. Musically bad arse though. Bush is bad arse! Many great songs. This is alternative rock. Post-grunge. That's why it sounds grungy. Heavy guitar distortion. Grunge is like slowed down punk rock and attitude, related. Post-grunge was huge in the '90s and '00s.
He sings both voices and then the studio puts them together to harmonize. It's called double tracking. When they sing it live either they won't do it, or have another band member who can sing will do it!
Well...he is Gwen Stephanie's Ex-Husband (Singer Gavin Rossdale). If you really want to know anything for sure, you could always ask her. :) Just kidding, I kow people's private business should stay private. But Bush was influenced by some of the Grunge from the early 90's. And being from England they actually weren't very popular in the UK as a result. They were more popular in the US.
Bush lyrics are always pretty damn cryptic but I think they're actually super well written. This song is about a couple who just lay around shooting up meth day after day, night after night, just being high and loving each other while their lives fall apart around them. I think the whole "my willy is food" line is basically referring to how they just sustained themselves off sex (and drugs) while ignoring their actual health ("cupboard is empty, we really need food").
@@duane8829 I mean I do think it's also about, literally, the little things getting to you as he says, but from the imagery I think it's pretty clear the context in which that observation is being made.
You guys want to hear an amazing vocalist, check out Fair to Midland and their songs Dance of the Manatee and Riki Tiki Tavi or even Uh-Oh! Awesome songs and a very underrated vocalist.
That’s so weird because I always heard it as “my will is food.” Bush’s lyrics are similar in style to Deftones, not the most important thing unless you really want to dive into them like your close reading a poem. Anyway, checkout “Swallow” & “Greedy Fly” off their second album. Like Pearl Jam’s Ten album I think 16 Stone is an album I’d hope every track gets a reaction, (also Nevermind by Nirvana and the self-titled debut by Garbage.) This is such a weird conversation, thrash was a blip on the radar over the course of the genre’s entire existence-even still-only metal & punk people even notice it. Grunge lasted about 6-ish years total, and most people, (you’ll even see this take in your comments,) tend to classify grunge as a genre that epitomized a time and PLACE, (Pacific Northwest,) though I do not totally agree with that. In the actual’90s, the genre term you could not escape was “alternative,” and what was it alternative to? The mainstream, Pop music (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Duran Duran, etc.,) and Adult Contemporary was a huge genre term, (UB40, Kenny G, Witney Houston, Sting, Seal, etc.) If you said “I like metal in the ‘90s to a normal person they’d think you were into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy, or maybe Metallica (only “Thrash” band that would have been on anyone’s radar, at all,) and most of the bands people knew of they knew of because the satanic panic targeted them and their names were in headlines on news papers. Bush is from the UK, and although UK bands would perform with grunge bands this song is off their first album (1994,) so they would have been exposed to very little grunge by that point, as “grunge” would be on its way out by 1996 at the latest. Remember, that was still a time when the UK releases might have had extra tracks, different tracks, maybe different lyrics, and different cover art, getting Nirvana’s Bleach or Pearl Jam’s Ten or Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger would probably have been more expensive for someone to buy living in the UK and all of the smaller grunge bands that didn’t get their albums exported to other countries would have gone unknown to British music fans, totally different situation from today.
Ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo. Lights out, rock bottom, love to love , msg msg. Into the arena, And more more more more. And when you here Michael Schenker. Omg. How did we miss this Wrote rock bottom at 16 years old. Ufo ufo. He wrote a lot of Scorpions songs. Holiday, Coast to coast. Another peace of meat.
The distortion on the guitars is always a sign of grunge. Hang onto Lex, Brad, you've got a good one...i'm in total sync with her when it comes to music.
Lol, person screwed up the lyrics in one part: "My Willy is food" is "My will is food" (slightly different meanings!! lmao), and "I'm addicted to fools" is "addicted to bullsh-t". So weird they messed two lines in just that one section. Willy is a simple typo, but in the context here, that reads SO weird, lol. I remember when Bush first came out, and it was smack in the middle of the 'grunge' era, I think they were considered part of grunge. But to me, they always sounded influenced by it, but also still had their own definitive style. I never saw them as a Nirvana copycat.
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Gavin Rosdale has an amazing voice!!!! He was extremely cordial when i met him at a concert back stage here here in Buffalo, he kept getting us drinks and honestly he smelled like roses!!!! The entire band was amazing!!!!
I understand from a few musicians I know that met him who have said he’s so super nice and very down to earth.
Didn't he also marry Gwen Stefani at some point?
Didn't expect to see this one covered, I haven't heard it in ages... it wasn't a huge single but definitely crept up in the backgrounds of parties/hangouts/etc. in the late 90's for sure. Thanks for the time-travel
Yeah I barely even heard this song, It's ok, but it's certainly no Zen, Machinhead or comedown
This remains my #1 favorite Bush song. However, the whole 16stone album is awesome. One of the best albums, in that I didn't hate a single song.
X-Girlfriend though???
A cool little skit of a song
Be sure to also react to Everything Zen, Comedown (probably their best), Mouth, and Swallowed.
They did everything zen
Pay attention
don't forget "Greedy Fly"
Swallowed is so great
Also they should do The Chemicals Between Us
Underrated band of the 90s with a goofy name.
The guitar sound you keep trying to describe is called distortion. You have clean guitar and distorted guitar as the primary difference in sound with a million degrees in between. Love you guys!
The best of British Grunge! The very epitome!
From the album "Sixteen Stone". One of my favorites
Bush "cold contagious"
Yall had me crackin up! This is very grunge to me. "Come Down" was one of their first hits i believe. One of my favs.
First one I remember hearing was Glycerine. I thought "Wow...kind of Cobain-ish."
@@CaptainTass This whole album was kind of Nirvana"-ish" LOL.
That’s probably their most Nirvana/Pixies song. Everything Zen was their first single though.
Thanks for staying with Bush. Such a great 90's band. Alternative stations like KROQ in California played Bush before the main stream stations like KLOS started playing them. I just think its great rock. Please do Comedown next.
Keep rocking.
Bush have such a varied tempo with their music but like others say comedown is an awesome track sixsteen stone was my album, reminds me of my mountain biking days.
Definitely a GRUNGE sound.
Those faces that Brad makes when he's letting Lex ramble her nonsense... Priceless!
Out of all the lyrics, you have to point out his willy? LOL! His willy is food! 🤣
I saw Bush, Goo Goo Dolls, and No Doubt in concert I think in 1996. What a legendary concert to see.
Bush is one of my favorites, especially their earlier stuff. Great reaction
Couldn’t have said it better: “ Grunge is the gem of the nineties! “ check out :” Letting the cables sleep “ by Bush… and FYI : Gavin is rumored to be pretty well endowed. According to Rolling Stone Magazine
GnR and Aerosmith were awesome in the 90s too.
@@Valorius : Absolutely . Even Ratt and Jackal put out some mean tunes in the 90’s … but Grunge did burn bright in their own epoch without compare ; just as Hard Rock and Hair Metal reigned supreme in the 80’s .
New York Hip Hop & Floridian & Swedish Death Metal were the gems of the 90's. Oh, and Shoegaze & BritPop.
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It’s very grungy. And this song is awesome.
One of my favorite Bush tracks is a deep cut called Alien. They put out a new album just recently called The Kingdom and it's actually quite good.
Alien is my favorite bush track second is mouth off of their second album. I can't believe someone else even mentioned it. No one ever talks about that song...and they should, thank you.
dope song. underrated
My friends and I always liked Alien, it's an under appreciated gem for sure
Great band
You might like:
Come Down
Greedy Fly
Swallowed
Wow.... haven't heard this one in ages. Always loved it.
Finally they get to Bush. Love this band
Bush was definitely grunge inspired but was considered (towards the front) part of the post-grunge wave.
I’ve been waiting for this one since suggested, Glad you guys chose it.
My favorite Bush song.
Bush has some great songs. Hope you play some more: "Machinehead", "Chemical Between Us", "Come Down".
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Saw them live a few years back. Gavin is still rocking it. I wish I had been alive and able to see them at Woodstock '99 though. That performance was amazing.
Letting the Cables Sleep is one of their best. Gotta check it out!
Bush is talented. It is grunge. Post-grunge. 1990s and 2000s
GRUNGE was truly the best of the 90's
I agree 💯 percent Lex, growing up in the 70's,80's,then playing in the 90's,then listening to all of the music in the 2000's,if I listen to anything for the most part it's from the 90's, not always but most of my favorite bands are from the 90's.Soundgarden,AIC,Rage.STP, Oasis,Bush Limp Biscuit Pearl Jam, Nirvana,FF',Tool, even had Priest with Painkiller,then at the very end in 99 Disturbed came out and alot of the Nu-Metal bands before or around that time.
I loved this album when it came out..I haven't heard it in awhile but it's still good. There is a difference between over processed music and good live bands. You can hear it in the actual bands in the 90's..a lot less good ones these days.
Alternative music umbrella (rock, alt dance music, punk rock, nu- metal, rap-rock, , alt/indie rock, grunge/post grunge, ska punk, etc), R&B and Rap/ Hip Hop were the gems 💎 of the '90s. We loved all of that. I was a teen and young adult back then. Also the music Lex described back in the '80s was new wave, post punk, synth pop, etc. We as kids loved that too 😆. Thrash evolved from the '80s BTW. Metal, punk influence. Good too.
Bush is one of England's first attempt at Grunge. The lead singer actually got with Gwen Stefani.
Bush is post-grunge. They were inspired by grunge rather than what had inspired grunge. I read that Gavin Rossdale decided to learn to play guitar in his early 20s after a Nirvana concert.
Bush is British Grunge.
The little things that kill... "The little death" or "La petite mort" is what classy french literature calls an orgasm.
The song is about orgasms, it is the little things.
The best part of the 90's is that it was us people that liked what we want and record labels were playing what we wanted. And good music was everywhere in every genre. It was a decade of great music everywhere.
I agree with this.
Lex smile while she rocks out makes my day 😆
Thrash is actually from the 80s originally. Bush is Grunge-y, but they came right after the original Grunge bands. Bush was mid-90s and the original Grunge movement started in the early 90s.
Metallica's 90s stuff isn't really Thrash. It is hard rock and heavy metal, so I'd say 90s Metallica was grunge-adjacent because both Metal and Grunge are Hard Rock genres. Grunge had some influences from Thrash, especially the 80s Grunge that never really went mainstream, lots of bands from Sub Pop records. Grunge combined Punk, especially Hardcore Punk with Classic Rock/Old School 70s Metal.
Hardcore punk and Thrash are cousins because both were fast hard rock genres born in the late 70s early 80s. Groups like Motorhead are liked by both punks and metalheads. The Exploited and Motorhead did an epic show together in the 80s. Bad Brains are a hardcore Punk group and I would say they pioneered a lot of the Alternative and Grunge sounds because they were moving away from hardcore punk and incorporating metal and pop influences. Compare Nirvana's track "In Bloom" to Bad Brains' "Reignition". Also Bad Brains are Brothas and Punk rock was also pioneered by a group of Brothas from Detroit called "Death" back in 1974, three years before Punk became a phenomena. Meanwhile, Thrash took elements of 70s metal, New Wave British Heavy Metal and punk, especially Hardcore Punk.
Swallowed by bush is the bomb
"Greedy Fly" by Bush would be my favorite recommendation, but I'll take any and all Bush reactions 🤘
Yes. Love Bush
Saying Bush isn't grunge is like saying Poison isn't glam.
LOVE THE BUSH!
I feel like music and entertainment in general were the best part of the nineties in the US… not just grunge. It was the last decade not completely watered down and in a lot of cases… ruined by the music and entertainment industry. Less CGI, less censorship, somewhat longer more meaningful songs, more artistic freedom. We didn’t have tech at our finger tips… music and movies actually had to be good to be heard about and become popular… in most cases at least.
anything Gavin writes , and sings , is magical!!!! ...the new (latest album) is so great too!!!
My mom named me Gavin after Gavin Rossdale.
Aww, you're going through the songs of my childhood! Bush is one of my favorite bands! Please listen to Glycerine and Comedown, I think you will enjoy those!!!
80's was thrash and glam-metal. 90's was grunge starting in the early 90's and nu-metal starting in the mid-90's, as well as industrial metal throughout the 90's. There was also post-grunge which was the second wave of grunge bands (must more mainstream sounding) that came AFTER bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, etc.
Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, STP and Nirvana are first wave late80's early 90's, if it weren't for them most people wouldn't know what grunge is it's not like Screaming Trees and Tad were hugely marketed and no one listens to Blind Melon and connects them to Grunge.
Ok! Your next reaction should be “chemicals between us” by this band
If they do a reaction video to that song they need to use the American Werewolf in Paris version.
The Radio Station here in Orlando WJRR 101.1 Played BUSH all the time. They had So many great song's. They Played several Song's on Two For Tuesday. 🐊🌞😎🤔😳☮️🌴😬
That used to be on the radio a lot. I don't listen to the radio much, since Spotify happened.
I would call this alternative rock but there's definitely a lot of grunge elements in alt rock ... a lot of 90s groups liked to mix genres
And Lex is right... a lot of trends in the 90s were people veering away from the glam rock, hair metal and synth pop of the 80s. So a lot of 90s bands wanted to have a more raw sound. You still had a lot of pop groups in the 90s of course but the "alt" scene was more gritty and grungy in how they sounded and dressed
I haven't heard this in forever.
Brings back fun times in the 90's.... 👍
Bush is a really good band. I know they get shit, but they are good. Gavin has a great voice. And they RAWK!
🤘🤘 Ahhhhhh this takes me back!!! God I miss my younger Brother. Anyway great reaction!!!! 😉❤✌
Okay. So Bush is a British Band directly influenced by Grunge and other modern and classic rock music. Gavin jasbthat gravelly gritty vocal fry associated with Grunge singers in particular, but not exclusive to just that genre either. They are NOT Grunge as per the many things that created that category. Because of the power and the clean capabilities within that grit of Gavin's vocals, coupled with clean tight heavy sound of the band within the songs; Bush was extremely radio friendly and had tons of air time. They are fantastic live!!! And the fact that Gavin as the frontman is also extremely good looking to anyone with eyeballs probably definitely helped with making the super marketable!!! But that album in it's entirety really is a musical piece of art!!! No Cap!!! 😉
The lead singer, Gavin Rossdale is Gwen Stefani's first husband.
Bush is like The Offspring, you think they only have a few good songs and then you realize they have like 30 songs that just Bop
facts
Those bands don't bop. Bop is what children's songs do.
Ok Boomer👍👍👍
Brad doesn't know Grunge lol. This is VERY Grunge. This basically was a carbon copy of Nirvana's sound (a lot of bands came out with this sound after Nirvana's "Nevermind" popularized Grunge). But not all Grunge bands sounded like this either. That's very important to note. For example, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains don't sound anything like this but they're also classified as Grunge.
Bush is my favorite Band still. You should definitely check out more songs. Their older songs are classics and they have a lot good ones on the newer ones too and on Gavin's solo stuff. I would start with the singles and then also move to the better ones that aren't radio ones. I'll make a list but need some time.
I love bush because of its awesome simplicity. As a guitarist I wouldn’t say beginner but their chords and riffs are scarily simple to riff to. Been discovering Bush recently and loving a lot of their newer stuff. Also discovered institute from “stealth” because I saw it the other day. Cracking and and Gavin is an annoyingly good looking guy as well lol.
Yeah, the basic riffs are simple, but Nigel had a magic touch. I loved his slide parts and weird bends. He loved adding dissonance. After Nigel left, the new albums had lots of fillers.
Probably like that saying; “It’s the little things that get to you.”
Bush is a great band. I remember way back when they were Bush X. When is The Couch gang gonna check out some more Chris Stapleton? Yawl need to check out some of his own songs to see his song writing skills.
Ita grunge but always remember its ROCK N ROLL.Rock n roll is a feeling and sound.
Lex is right...Bush was 100% a grunge band
BUSH is one my fav bands
It is grunge. That nasty sound! Nasty sound. Seattle came out with their own great sound.
🤣🤣🤣 Love it!
This is by far my favorite Bush song. I still listen to this here and there.
Yeah, we perform this one in my band. This one, Machinehead and my favorite, Testosterone.
@@CaptainTass testosterone is the goat
Bush singer Gavin and No Doubt (ska punk band) singer Gwen Stefani were a very good looking couple back then 😆. Had some kids from that marriage, before splitting up. Hey. Never try to figure out Bush song lyrics. They rarely ever make any sense. Lol. Musically bad arse though. Bush is bad arse! Many great songs. This is alternative rock. Post-grunge. That's why it sounds grungy. Heavy guitar distortion. Grunge is like slowed down punk rock and attitude, related. Post-grunge was huge in the '90s and '00s.
Kurt Cobain has a high voice, and Nirvana is the poster child for grunge.
Had.. RIP
He sings both voices and then the studio puts them together to harmonize. It's called double tracking. When they sing it live either they won't do it, or have another band member who can sing will do it!
Well...he is Gwen Stephanie's Ex-Husband (Singer Gavin Rossdale). If you really want to know anything for sure, you could always ask her. :) Just kidding, I kow people's private business should stay private. But Bush was influenced by some of the Grunge from the early 90's. And being from England they actually weren't very popular in the UK as a result. They were more popular in the US.
Bush is considered "Post Grunge"
Love Bush
i miss the 90's
I almost touched Gavin at their concert!! He was walking between the aisles and he turned right when he got to my row! 😭😭
Grunge rock!!!
In the 90s my social group thought this was a lame poser band so obviously I crowd followed but I remember secretly loving this song.
Everything zen & LETTING THE CABLES SLEEP also great by Bush.
"Greedy Fly" next please!
Chemicals between us is also an awesome song by bush.
Bush lyrics are always pretty damn cryptic but I think they're actually super well written. This song is about a couple who just lay around shooting up meth day after day, night after night, just being high and loving each other while their lives fall apart around them. I think the whole "my willy is food" line is basically referring to how they just sustained themselves off sex (and drugs) while ignoring their actual health ("cupboard is empty, we really need food").
Well, not according to Gavin, it’s not.
@@duane8829 I mean I do think it's also about, literally, the little things getting to you as he says, but from the imagery I think it's pretty clear the context in which that observation is being made.
You've got to try Comedown as your next Bush reaction.
Grunge (specifically Nirvana) knocked Michael Jackson off number one on the charts. Things were different after that.
You guys want to hear an amazing vocalist, check out Fair to Midland and their songs Dance of the Manatee and Riki Tiki Tavi or even Uh-Oh! Awesome songs and a very underrated vocalist.
Technically post-grunge i suppose… but with all the same flavours
Please do Comedown! 🙌🏼 love you guys! xo
Yes Bush was grunge. you can hear the Nirvana influence.
we need some Billy Talent!
That’s so weird because I always heard it as “my will is food.”
Bush’s lyrics are similar in style to Deftones, not the most important thing unless you really want to dive into them like your close reading a poem.
Anyway, checkout “Swallow” & “Greedy Fly” off their second album.
Like Pearl Jam’s Ten album I think 16 Stone is an album I’d hope every track gets a reaction, (also Nevermind by Nirvana and the self-titled debut by Garbage.)
This is such a weird conversation, thrash was a blip on the radar over the course of the genre’s entire existence-even still-only metal & punk people even notice it. Grunge lasted about 6-ish years total, and most people, (you’ll even see this take in your comments,) tend to classify grunge as a genre that epitomized a time and PLACE, (Pacific Northwest,) though I do not totally agree with that. In the actual’90s, the genre term you could not escape was “alternative,” and what was it alternative to? The mainstream, Pop music (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Duran Duran, etc.,) and Adult Contemporary was a huge genre term, (UB40, Kenny G, Witney Houston, Sting, Seal, etc.)
If you said “I like metal in the ‘90s to a normal person they’d think you were into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy, or maybe Metallica (only “Thrash” band that would have been on anyone’s radar, at all,) and most of the bands people knew of they knew of because the satanic panic targeted them and their names were in headlines on news papers.
Bush is from the UK, and although UK bands would perform with grunge bands this song is off their first album (1994,) so they would have been exposed to very little grunge by that point, as “grunge” would be on its way out by 1996 at the latest.
Remember, that was still a time when the UK releases might have had extra tracks, different tracks, maybe different lyrics, and different cover art, getting Nirvana’s Bleach or Pearl Jam’s Ten or Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger would probably have been more expensive for someone to buy living in the UK and all of the smaller grunge bands that didn’t get their albums exported to other countries would have gone unknown to British music fans, totally different situation from today.
It is "will"... the problem with a lot of lyric videos is, the people who make them get the lyrics wrong quite frequently.
If you understand lyrics, small fights means to be the beginnings fights later……..it is timeless
I totally agree with Lex about grunge music.
BUSH influenced NickleBack and 3 Doors Down...similar sound that producers and record companies were copying.
Ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo. Lights out, rock bottom, love to love , msg msg. Into the arena, And more more more more. And when you here Michael Schenker. Omg. How did we miss this Wrote rock bottom at 16 years old. Ufo ufo. He wrote a lot of Scorpions songs. Holiday, Coast to coast. Another peace of meat.
that was about as grunge as it gets!!
The distortion on the guitars is always a sign of grunge. Hang onto Lex, Brad, you've got a good one...i'm in total sync with her when it comes to music.
Lol, person screwed up the lyrics in one part: "My Willy is food" is "My will is food" (slightly different meanings!! lmao), and "I'm addicted to fools" is "addicted to bullsh-t". So weird they messed two lines in just that one section. Willy is a simple typo, but in the context here, that reads SO weird, lol.
I remember when Bush first came out, and it was smack in the middle of the 'grunge' era, I think they were considered part of grunge. But to me, they always sounded influenced by it, but also still had their own definitive style. I never saw them as a Nirvana copycat.
Lex got it right the 1st time... His willy kills, literally.