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"Comedown" - Bush
from the album Sixteen Stone (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's song of the day comes from the British rock band Bush, who took their international take on grunge rock to American radio and landed two big hits already with a song that just made the top-40 on the airplay chart, "Everything Zen", and one that just missed that mark, "Little Things". But since neither of them were available for sale commercially, both weren't allowed to appear on Billboard magazine's official pop chart the Hot 100. That changed with the third cut from Sixteen Stone that was promoted to radio, "Comedown". Put out on "cassingle" and CD single in the fall of 1995, the song became their first "verified" top-40 pop hit, while again proving a massive rock draw on both alternative and mainstream stations. Written by lead singer Gavin Rossdale, and in he regales about an ex-girlfriend, and the descent from initial bliss a break-up entails...

"Comedown" became Bush's first "official" American Top-40 pop hit in November of 1995. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Rock radio chart for two weeks, while spending a week at #2 on their Mainstream Rock format list. Internationally, the song just missed the top 40 in Australia at #45.

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Here's some in studio live footage from 1995...