Monday, February 29, 2016

Bush ( the Band) +Institute+ Gaven Rossdale solo project: Discography Review albums reviews



Bush
Sixteen Stone (1994)
Genre: Post Grunge, Grunge, Hard Rock

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I remember traveling to the States around the time that  this album came out and it had just exploded on the radio they were all over place, and me and my dad just loved it so much we went and got it immediately and this album basically became the sound track to a road trip that we had from San Francisco to L.A, I actually have a home video where we are crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and we are blasting "Come Down" and "Glycerin" on a cloudy and rainy day it was just perfect, it's one of my fondest musical memories, it set the ground work for my musical awakening. I must add with my first band that I had when I was 16  we used to play "Machine Head" in our set list and people just loved it.


Vocals and Lyric: Gaven Rossdale for good and for bad does his best vocal and lyrical work in his career, everything he does from this point will be compared to this album because it's one  of the band  greatest hit it has. 10

Instrumentation:  This  band is a pretty conventional Grungy/Hard Rock band their instrumentation is functional to the songs. Nigel Pulsford  as the guitar player does have his own style of playing that gives this band some character. Also  we have to mention Dave Parsons the bass player does play nothing out of the ordinary but his bass line on "Come Down"  is fantastic.7


Melody and/or Structure: Surprisingly well written album, it surprising to see a band in there first album have such well balance songs, with excellent use of melody and mood.10

Sound, Production and Feeling: Pretty basic mix nothing out of the ordinary, but some well placed strings on a couple of occasions . 8

Songs: This album is good from front to back, but this production in particular was able to put out 5 singles that had heavy radio play, with 2 ranking number  1 which are  Glycerin and Comedown, few band have been able to do that on their debut album. 12

Originality:  These guys sort of became the poster boys for post grunge and pushed the alternative rock movement during the mid 90's 12

Overall: 58.6



Bush
Razor Blade Suitcase (1996)
Razorblade suitcase.jpgGenre: Alternative Rock, Post Grunge, Grunge

If the band didn't like being compared to Nirvana, back in the day, they did the oddest thing, they got Steve Albini, the guy that produced In Utero, Nirvana's greatedt master peace,  to produce this album that is chucked filled with Nirvanism, in sound, style,  and vocals. Ignoring this you could say that this album is pretty good in general it does lag a bit at the end the ballads just fall flat. Nigel dives deeper into his style adding simulated sloppy/glitchy stuff/noise to give this album that reminisanse of In Utero.
 I must add  at my bands first show for a surprising amount a people we opened with Swallowed, and I was so nerves that I accidently ended the song with final bass part after the first chorus, and we where kids we didn't know how to get out of that mess and left the song there, I remember everyone wondering why that song was so short.

Overall: 55.3



Deconstructed (1997)
Genre: Post Grunge, electronic

Why did rock and metal band insisted on making remix albums during the 90's is beyond me because the tended to be terrible and this one is no exeption not even the track with Tricky, this production  sucks.

Overall: 35


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The Science of Things (1999)
Genre: Grunge, Post-Grunge

This is a pretty good album it much more consistent than Razor Blade Suitcase, they sort of jump into the fade of  adding electrics to their sound, but in this case it works and also Nigel uses really interesting effects adding to his glitchy style of playing.


Overall: 56




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Golden State
Genre: Post Grunge

This is the last album with the original band after this Nigel and Dave leave the band, it's a Ok production the song are good but they do not trying anything new, it seem uninspired at moments.

Overall: 50







Institute
Distort Yourself (2005)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Rock

It just a progression from Bush's Golden State, it a pretty uninspired album and painfully mediocre at moments.


Overall: 37





Gaven Rossdale solo
WANDERlust (2008)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Post Grunge

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So Gaven set out to make a solo album that has some good and some bad, the positive things about this album we can hear Roosdale vocally going to new places and trying sing more, also musicaly he tries new stuff. Now the negative some of the more rock tracks seem pretty watered down they just took all of the energy out of them to make this production more radio friendly and there is a reggae inspired track that should have never existed.
Chris Traynor, ex Helmet  and Institute, guitar player does a nice good job and Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle and NIN) gives a nice touch to the songs. The album has a couple as guests vocalist like Shirley Manson (Garbage) and surprisingly Katy Perry. 

Overall: 46.5 




Sea of Memories (2011)
Genre:  Alternative Rock, Post Grunge, Grunge

This album has everything to be a fantastic album but it just doesn't trap me,  you would have thought that after such a long wait Gaven would have tons of fresh ideas but there isn't anything interesting on this album. 

Overall: 46.2



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