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Razorblade Suitcase

Bush

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Album Review

Bush were criticized from most quarters of the music press for sounding too much like Nirvana on their debut album, Sixteen Stone, so in order to shed all of the comparisons, well, they hired producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey) and proceeded to record their own version of Nirvana's dark, difficult In Utero. Actually, Razorblade Suitcase, Bush's second album, cribs heavily from two of Albini's best productions, In Utero and Pixies' Surfer Rosa — they even hired Vaughan Oliver, the designer behind Surfer Rosa, to do the artwork. Albini helped make the band sound tougher by stripping away the layers of effects and concentrating on a hard, driving rhythm and stop-start dynamics. Although lacking in memorable hooks, Razorblade Suitcase is more pleasing and visceral on the surface.

Customer Reviews

Omg I love this album.

When I discovered the tape of this in eigth grade, I didn't know they would become my favorite band. Greedy Fly is what hooked me for the band, but Personal Halloway is my absolute favorite song. Other songs I love on this are Cold Contagious, Swallowed, A Tendency to Start Fire, Straight No Chaser, History, Synapse and Bone Driven, but the whole album is great and I recommend it to anyone.

Almost

Many people perceive Razorblade Suitcase as Bush's In Utero because it is less far less mainstream. Bush certainly caught it's fair share of flak after Sixteen Stone because critics said they were emulating Nirvana. Bush apparantly took this personally and decided Razorblade was their chance to set them apart by developing their own sound; they succeeded, sometimes for better sometimes for worse. The tour de force that was Sixteen Stone differs sharply from Razorblade Suitcase because RS's tempo is much slower. The tracks that were affected negatively from this change in style are Cold Contagious, Straight No Chaser, Communicator, and Bonedriven. They are far too slow to be engaging. Unfortunately I just listed half of the albums singles in that list. Straight No Chaser, Communicator, and Bonedriven start out soft and never pick up and Cold Contagious picks up at 2:50 if you're still listening congratulations. However the rest of the album is actually great. It features the hit single Swallowed which is without a doubt Bush's best song and one of the best from the 90's, which is a pretty bold statement. It disappoints me how Bush can sound so spectacular on most of the songs and so dull on the others. They almost made another classic- almost. Key tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9.

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Great rock, great grunge, AWESOME

Biography

Formed: 1992

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Led by guitarist/vocalist Gavin Rossdale, Bush became the first post-Nirvana British band to hit it big in America. Of course, they became a hit by playing by the grunge rules — they had loud guitars, guttural vocals, stop-start rhythms, and extreme dynamics. Formed in late 1992 by Rossdale, Bush landed an American record deal before they had a British label. Sixteen Stone, their debut album produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley (producers of early-'80s hits by Madness and Elvis Costello,...
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