Songoftheday 9/27/19 - There must be something we can eat maybe find another lover, should I fly to Los Angeles find my asshole brother...
from the album Sixteen Stone (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #40 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from the British "grunge" rock band Bush, who started out more of an alternative act led by singer/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford in London. Bringing on drummer Robin Goodridge and bass player Dave Parsons in the early 1990s, after shifted to Interscope Records, finally released their debut album Sixteen Stone at the end of 1994. The first song promoted to radio was "Everything Zen", which wasn't released as a proper single, but after rock radio fell in love with the song it crossed over to mainstream stations as well. Written by Rossdale, who produced the track with Alan Winstanley, Clive Langer, and the rest of the band, it would become the group's first big hit in a genre dominated by bands from Seattle like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Stone Temple Pilots...
While "Everything Zen" spent a week in the top-40 of Billboard magazine's Hot 100 Airplay chart in March of 1995, the chart gods rules kept it from appearing on the Hot 100 official pop chart proper. But the song did reach the top 5 on both the Mainstream Rock (#5) and Modern Rock/Alternative (two weeks at #2) radio charts there. Internationally, where "Everything Zen" was released commercially, the single just missed the top-40 in Australia (#41), and the Netherlands (#45), while being only a minor hit in their home country of the UK at #84.
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Here's Bush playing the song live on Letterman in 1995...
...and in an intimate TV shoot that same year...
Bush included the song in their Woodstock '99 setlist...
And finally, this intense performance from 2012...
Up tomorrow: Rapper/Producer can hear the bells.
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