Lead singer Gavin Rossdale made reference to two people in one of the lyrics: Tom Waits and Allen Ginsberg. The line, "Rain Dogs howl for the century" refers to the Waits album (also a "song), and the Ginsberg poem . There's no sex in your violence comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It.... The line "Minnie Mouse has grown up a cow, Dave's on sale again" refers to David Bowie, whose song "Life On Mars" contains the line: "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, Lennon's on sale again."
There's a lot of Grunge era songs that appear borderline nonsense ... obscure references stitched together with phrases meant to invoke a feeling or mood more than a direct meaning. A whole mess of them are inside references as well (which makes it even harder to decipher if you don't know the band).
I haven’t listened to this song in 27 years . Glad I was reminded of the greatness of bush . Over here in the UK we had all that poncy Brit Pop ( don’t anyone get triggered just my opinion) and Bush came along and made British music credible again .
Definitely Maybe is better than 16 Stone imo. If you want some good British rock from around that time, try Ferment by Catherine Wheel or Reflector by Sun Dial.
My personal favorite from them is The chemical's between us, but they have a pretty strong catalog.I really like the performance from Woodstock 99,So Good, love the slide guitar on this.
I saw that lineup in West Lafayette in like 96 or so. I think Goo Goo Dolls headlined but no one really cared about them. I fell in love with Gwen at that show.
It's a very standard and quintessential nineties rock guitar sound. It's just the distortion pedal that hes using that makes it that specific kind of crunch.
Fun Fact: They are actually members from the UK who formed in the US and have way more fans in the US. They are really close to the American Alt Rock.Grunge sound of the time, totally different from most other UK groups of the era. They are one of my favorites, used to have this album and would play it front to back.
@@curmudgeonaf Well of course, you guys are our closest cousins, even more so than how similar Australia is to the US. We literally have the closest accent too and are really one culture. Sure some stuff bleeds over the border into the other, and you can even hear an almost Canadian accent in the Dakota, Wisconsin, Vermont and parts of Alaska. Just listen to Sara Palin speak and you will know what I mean. So any popular music over here is going to become popular up there too. We are almost the same people.
Um they formed in England in 1992, were not known here until 1994 and were discovered by the same record label as nirvana, after Kurt died they were scrambling for a band that was similar. Bush put in allot of touring in the UK and surrounding areas for a couple years. You got that one wrong. It's in a documentary on you tube just search bush documentary.
@@BFKAnthony817 The legal team for their label went around sending cease and desist notices to other bands using the name Bush, which was fairly standard practice at the time (probably still is?) but it backfired when an old CanRock band from the 70s were able to argue that they'd established the name 20 years earlier. The feud only lasted from 94 until 97, at which time they came to an agreement and Bush were allowed to drop the superfluous X in their name. But yeah, my CDs of Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase are both credited to Bush X, with strategic alterations to the album cover to reflect the different name.
I saw them on that same tour in Ames, Iowa. It was my first concert and it was great, except we had nosebleed seats and the guys in front of us were smoking a joint but my girlfriend thought weed was the devil so I had to pretend like I didn't want it passed to me.
LOVE this song!! Bush is amazing to see live as well. I saw them in concert here in Texas back in '97 at the Texas Motor Speedway for Rockfest, and again in Dallas in October of 2019 - Gavin Rossdale and company was still bringing it live after all those years. The show was unbelievable. We got to go backstage and meet them, too. They were very gracious. 💖
My favorite saying ever, "There's no sex in your violence." Sex and Violence on tv, movies was a saying everywhere in the 90's so they were making fun of it
I always took it as "your violence isn't sexy" as in, better to make love than war as opposed to him wanting you to mix sex and violence, but then Bush lyrics never make any sense anyway - it's more a sonic experience than anything else. Anyway, if you liked this, check out "Comedown," my personal favorite. If you want something slower and more reflective, try "Glycerine." "Little Things" is good too.
all I know about Elvis is that he loved his bacon and that he put it on damn near everything. if there was a bacon planet discovered, you can bet Elvis would say "send me there". hope you both are having a great valentine's day, Brad and Lex!
After seeing Candlebox and Live turn up, I was gonna recommend some Bush... Well damn, here we are already, good sh*t! These lyrics are going to mess with you guys so hard 😂
When I saw them with Live a few years ago. What I loved was when Gavin goes into the crowd to sing with them. You don't see that anymore with bands. What a great band!!!!!
Best song...awesome album...its wa such a hit for me. I've never been a heavy metal type...more pop or grunge ..but I love this...went to their concert
The lead singer said (I think) that he was influenced by Husker Du. I highly recommend you check out the song by Husker Du - "Could You Be The One". Great song.
Such a classic 90s band. You gotta listen to Glycerine the MTV Spring Break 1996 video. Its different than the normal version because it was pouring rain and the band was told not to play, but the lead singer Gavin decided he would go out alone with his guitar to play the song for the crowd... it was AWESOME.
I used to mishear the lyrics "A million dollars at stake" as "A million dollars a steak." when I was in High School. I was like "whoa that's an expensive steak!"
Iv been trying to get them to listen to Waters Edge because Brad loves stories inside of songs - and that's one of the most brutal , violent and sad set of lyrics ever written and performed!!!...
In a Songfacts interview with Gavin Rossdale, he explained the meaning behind the line, "There's no sex in your violence." It comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It..." Said Rossdale: "I thought about that line, and it always struck me as a powerful lyric. I was thinking about that, and I was thinking about where I was living and where I had grown up, and some of the more violent aspects of that life and of those kids. I really hated that violence growing up. I was a little bit lost and didn't know where I was going, what I was doing, and I was committed to music, with no chance of having any success. I had been struggling for years. And that line, 'sex and violence,' that is a common thread through art. I just decided to put it in the context of, 'There's no sex in your violence.' It's sort of a personal belief, a personal mantra."
I saw these guys at the last rock concert to be held at the Sunrise theater in south florida before it was sold, great show, as someone who was aware of them but didnt play particular attention I remember being surprised at how many of their tunes I had heard on the radio, and how impressed I was at their live show and how well they represented, the bass line in Chemicals Between Us...
is there not any more information you can offer? what makes the sound she's talking about? i know "distortion" is a thing but i don't know what. could that be it?
@@leesmith9299 distortion, overdrive, fuzz etc lots of different effects available. Then there's also the Bass which Lex forgets (or is unfamiliar). Many have a pronounced mid hump growl or snarl in their timbre, and that's before introducing effects pedals.
The reason guitars sound different is a mix of pedals that change the sounds and tunings of guitars that also change the sounds of guitars. so that's why you get the whiny guitar noises some songs and it's why you get the dirty grungy sounds out of other genres.
FINALLY!! I have typed Bush in superchat so many damn times during the live streams. I KNEW Lex was gonna dig Bush. The reaction was worth it!. Now if I can just get them to listen to Ultranumb by Blue Stahli we'll get to see that face again.
Yall had me rolling on this one. She’s jamming the F out and your looking at the screen like your trying to figure out what calculus has to do with bananas 🤣
The thing about Bush is that Brits hated them apparently but they were really fucking solid for a few years. And, Gavin got to make babies with Gwen Stefani.
Okay, so it's my 24th Birthday and my brother scored us tickets to see Bush with Veruca Salt opening in Little Rock!!! We had a couple girls with us too. Anyway we work our way to the very front near the stage. Between songs my brother yells out to Gavin that it's my birthday. Gavin looks over, walks over as the band is beginning Glycerine which is one of my many favs by them. So the WHOLE song Gavin is just staring me in the eyes 3 feet from my face singing this beautiful song. Now especially back then Gavin Rossdale is one of those people that are just described as beautiful. And when he's basically serenading you you can start to question your flexibility in certain areas. Right then I hear the girl with my brother say OMG I would Eff him so hard. Then I hear my brother say back, "right now I would too". Such is the power of Gavin live!!!! 😉❤✌
There was so much great music coming out back in the early 90s! This record just added to it all.. We were getting spoiled.. thought it wasn't going to stop. unfortunately, a few years later, the radio managed to ruin Rock AGAIN.. smh
Love Bush... seen them twice in concert and 16 stone which is the album this song is from is great. You should also react to the song "Comedown" if you want more rock or if you want a rock ballad then Glycerine. Gavin the lead singer is a great performer and full of energy if you get to see him live.
Back in high school we realized you could just put any words together and make a Bush song. So we would walk around going "Monkey dancing on pudding shoes. Two bits for a coconut. Mama pass me the tablecloth. Woke up with a mandolin. There's no sex in your violence."
The whole Sixteen Stone album is terrific.
Agreed, so many bangers on that album
One of my fave albums of all time
Underated imo
Not a bad song on it.
Yep got it 👍
"Comedown", "Glycerine", and "Greedy Fly" are 3 more songs y'all should check out by Bush!
@Master Kush Totally agree!
And "Mouth" and "Swallow"
Little Things, imo. But to be fair, the whole album is great.
All of these suggestions!!!! 💯😁🤘
Seconded for greedy fly.
Lead singer Gavin Rossdale made reference to two people in one of the lyrics: Tom Waits and Allen Ginsberg. The line, "Rain Dogs howl for the century" refers to the Waits album (also a "song), and the Ginsberg poem . There's no sex in your violence comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It.... The line "Minnie Mouse has grown up a cow, Dave's on sale again" refers to David Bowie, whose song "Life On Mars" contains the line: "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, Lennon's on sale again."
Thanks for sharing this
There's a lot of Grunge era songs that appear borderline nonsense ... obscure references stitched together with phrases meant to invoke a feeling or mood more than a direct meaning. A whole mess of them are inside references as well (which makes it even harder to decipher if you don't know the band).
I don't know for sure if it's where they got it but "Try to see it once my way" is a line from the Alice in Chains song Would.
@@MadMattH "Try to see it my way" also shows up in the Beatles "We Can Work It Out".
It's Lenin is on sale again, Bowie is saying people are pushing Marxism again.
"Machinehead" is another banger from Bush. Also Gavin Rossdale was Gwen Stefani's first husband and father of her sons.
They reacted to Machinehead already. 😊 My favorite Bush song.
I love that song too! He cheated on her with their nanny!
@@marilynk30 allegedly
@@Cts_99 ok🤭
And "Little Things"
I haven’t listened to this song in 27 years . Glad I was reminded of the greatness of bush . Over here in the UK we had all that poncy Brit Pop ( don’t anyone get triggered just my opinion) and Bush came along and made British music credible again .
Bush and Oasis came out around the same time. Everyone was touting Oasis as the next Beatles but Bush is where it was at
Definitely Maybe is better than 16 Stone imo. If you want some good British rock from around that time, try Ferment by Catherine Wheel or Reflector by Sun Dial.
That's quite funny. I like Bush but during that time they were considered to be plastic in Britain.
@@runyunhyde4373 LOL sooo true. I never could get into Oasis. Bush and Blur much better!
I remember at the time that I considered them the British version of Helmet.
Great music guys...next: "Glycerine"...I know for sure you will like that one!!!
that BASS with distortion is what you love !
Love this band saw them in concert they rocked!!!!
My personal favorite from them is The chemical's between us, but they have a pretty strong catalog.I really like the performance from Woodstock 99,So Good, love the slide guitar on this.
First concert I went to was No Doubt opening for Goo Dolls and Bush. Excellent. Sixteen Stone is one of the best 90's albums.
I saw that lineup in West Lafayette in like 96 or so. I think Goo Goo Dolls headlined but no one really cared about them. I fell in love with Gwen at that show.
@@TheMartinChronicles I saw the show in Columbia SC.
It's a very standard and quintessential nineties rock guitar sound. It's just the distortion pedal that hes using that makes it that specific kind of crunch.
Probably a rat
@@blushingfrieza possibly. I was thinking an sd-2
Come down!!! The warm machine!! Mouth!! The chemicals Between us!!! The sound of winter!!! Letting the cables sleep. And all there stuff is amazing.
Guitar sound differences are attributed to the different pedals they have at their feet. They can tap buttons to make different sounds.
He playing slide guitar. A metal tube over the finger which slides over fretboard.
Great description of the guitar sound. Nigel Pulsford is amazing.
My favourite guitarist, I miss him!
Probably my favorite Bush song. Also check out - Glycerine, Comedown, and Swallowed.
& greedy fly
And "Little Things"
Fun Fact: They are actually members from the UK who formed in the US and have way more fans in the US. They are really close to the American Alt Rock.Grunge sound of the time, totally different from most other UK groups of the era. They are one of my favorites, used to have this album and would play it front to back.
@@curmudgeonaf Well of course, you guys are our closest cousins, even more so than how similar Australia is to the US. We literally have the closest accent too and are really one culture. Sure some stuff bleeds over the border into the other, and you can even hear an almost Canadian accent in the Dakota, Wisconsin, Vermont and parts of Alaska. Just listen to Sara Palin speak and you will know what I mean. So any popular music over here is going to become popular up there too. We are almost the same people.
@@curmudgeonaf Lol that is something I didn't know how funny. Why was it? Due to Bush's Baked Beans or Busch beer?
Um they formed in England in 1992, were not known here until 1994 and were discovered by the same record label as nirvana, after Kurt died they were scrambling for a band that was similar.
Bush put in allot of touring in the UK and surrounding areas for a couple years.
You got that one wrong. It's in a documentary on you tube just search bush documentary.
@@BFKAnthony817 The legal team for their label went around sending cease and desist notices to other bands using the name Bush, which was fairly standard practice at the time (probably still is?) but it backfired when an old CanRock band from the 70s were able to argue that they'd established the name 20 years earlier. The feud only lasted from 94 until 97, at which time they came to an agreement and Bush were allowed to drop the superfluous X in their name.
But yeah, my CDs of Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase are both credited to Bush X, with strategic alterations to the album cover to reflect the different name.
I saw Bush in concert in Seattle in like ‘96 (approx). It was Bush, No Doubt and Good Dolls. It was a good concert.
I saw them on that same tour in Ames, Iowa. It was my first concert and it was great, except we had nosebleed seats and the guys in front of us were smoking a joint but my girlfriend thought weed was the devil so I had to pretend like I didn't want it passed to me.
@@catsaregovernmentspies I hope they passed it to you 😞
Lex vibing the fuck outta it.
Love this album! ❤️
One of the best ever made honestly!
Great album!
The 90s held few songs that really slammed so hard that I listen to them today but this one is beyond belief STELLAR! LOVE THIS SONG!
Hey what's up guys! Greetings from South Florida! This song kicks! The whole album rocks! You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
Letting the cables sleep - BUSH - rooftop live AWESOME
LOVE this song!! Bush is amazing to see live as well. I saw them in concert here in Texas back in '97 at the Texas Motor Speedway for Rockfest, and again in Dallas in October of 2019 - Gavin Rossdale and company was still bringing it live after all those years. The show was unbelievable. We got to go backstage and meet them, too. They were very gracious. 💖
97 Edgefest🤟was awesome
My favorite saying ever, "There's no sex in your violence." Sex and Violence on tv, movies was a saying everywhere in the 90's so they were making fun of it
We had this tape growing up. The whole album is good. 94 was an amazing year for music. 16 Stone, Dookie, Blue Album, etc.
That's the guitar Lex making that noise. Also love when brad gives you that small smile of approval!!!!
I always took it as "your violence isn't sexy" as in, better to make love than war as opposed to him wanting you to mix sex and violence, but then Bush lyrics never make any sense anyway - it's more a sonic experience than anything else. Anyway, if you liked this, check out "Comedown," my personal favorite. If you want something slower and more reflective, try "Glycerine." "Little Things" is good too.
It's a Jane's Addiction reference
Saw these guys live in 1998. Good show.
Gotta love the 90s music scene!!
love me some bush! their 2 albums Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase are in my top ten albums forever.
Love the Bush Sound
Comedown & Glycerine
Are a Must
all I know about Elvis is that he loved his bacon and that he put it on damn near everything. if there was a bacon planet discovered, you can bet Elvis would say "send me there".
hope you both are having a great valentine's day, Brad and Lex!
After seeing Candlebox and Live turn up, I was gonna recommend some Bush... Well damn, here we are already, good sh*t!
These lyrics are going to mess with you guys so hard 😂
This song reminds me of driving thru Tucson in the rain late at night with the lights reflecting off the wet road.
I think this has an Industrial sound to the guitars! Love it!
When I saw them with Live a few years ago. What I loved was when Gavin goes into the crowd to sing with them. You don't see that anymore with bands. What a great band!!!!!
Best song...awesome album...its wa such a hit for me. I've never been a heavy metal type...more pop or grunge
..but I love this...went to their concert
This is one of my favorite songs. (Which is why I kept trying to get it on a stream, ork ork)
Lex is vibing to this love it especially the guitar solos
Can’t do Bush without doing “Machine Head” 🤘🔥
They did Machinehead already 😊 That is a great workout song. Never fails to get me to bike faster when I put it in my head while out for a bike ride.
Definitely a good workout song. Reminds you to breath in breath out breath in breath out…..😂
Lex, the guitar sound you are describing is called "Distortion".
Distortion and a crappy upload. Holy hell what was that 42kbps? Zen.
Maybe the best song of the 90s. I never get tired of it.
The lead singer said (I think) that he was influenced by Husker Du. I highly recommend you check out the song by Husker Du - "Could You Be The One". Great song.
Such a classic 90s band. You gotta listen to Glycerine the MTV Spring Break 1996 video. Its different than the normal version because it was pouring rain and the band was told not to play, but the lead singer Gavin decided he would go out alone with his guitar to play the song for the crowd... it was AWESOME.
This song was everywhere back in the day
Thank you for sharing this with me
I was in high school when Bush came about and I was all grunge in high school and I loved this band.
Man alive I love the haunting grit of this song. The drums are so menacing on this track!
This kinda song is why we need more 90s streams.. I think we have heard every song from the 70s by now.
I used to mishear the lyrics "A million dollars at stake" as "A million dollars a steak." when I was in High School. I was like "whoa that's an expensive steak!"
Bush "swallowed ":)
Thank for reacting to this band!
How about "Cumbersome" by Seven Mary Three? They are really underrated. They also sing "Lucky", "My, My" and "Waters Edge"
Facts
Iv been trying to get them to listen to Waters Edge because Brad loves stories inside of songs - and that's one of the most brutal , violent and sad set of lyrics ever written and performed!!!...
YES! This band keeps giving and giving!
In a Songfacts interview with Gavin Rossdale, he explained the meaning behind the line, "There's no sex in your violence." It comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It..."
Said Rossdale: "I thought about that line, and it always struck me as a powerful lyric. I was thinking about that, and I was thinking about where I was living and where I had grown up, and some of the more violent aspects of that life and of those kids. I really hated that violence growing up. I was a little bit lost and didn't know where I was going, what I was doing, and I was committed to music, with no chance of having any success. I had been struggling for years. And that line, 'sex and violence,' that is a common thread through art. I just decided to put it in the context of, 'There's no sex in your violence.' It's sort of a personal belief, a personal mantra."
YES.THIS. Thank you for saving me a LOT of typing 😂
I saw these guys at the last rock concert to be held at the Sunrise theater in south florida before it was sold, great show, as someone who was aware of them but didnt play particular attention I remember being surprised at how many of their tunes I had heard on the radio, and how impressed I was at their live show and how well they represented, the bass line in Chemicals Between Us...
I like your turn into 90's town. Keep going!
Cold Contagious. Trust me. Absolutely will be playlist for Lex instantly.
Live and Bush, both on my playlist!
Yeah Gavin Rossdale was a rock star in the 90s string English rock band underrated great live performances
Finally back with more bush 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome song and band
one of my favorite bands in the mid 90's, Glycerine, Comedown, Swallow are good tracks
✌️😎✌️ great band ! Let’s get more play people!!!
Congrats on 200k!
Giiirrlll I love BUSH and I freaking love your breaking bad beanie!!
Childhood memories of my sister blasting this out loud on her stereo
"Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, Dave's on sale again" is referencing David Bowie's Life On Mars.
This kicks major butt!!!
It's all 🎸 Guitar---- Bush is a guitar band. Rhythm and lead.
is there not any more information you can offer? what makes the sound she's talking about? i know "distortion" is a thing but i don't know what. could that be it?
@@leesmith9299 distortion, overdrive, fuzz etc lots of different effects available.
Then there's also the Bass which Lex forgets (or is unfamiliar). Many have a pronounced mid hump growl or snarl in their timbre, and that's before introducing effects pedals.
As the other comments have said, check out Glycerine and also Machinehead!
The reason guitars sound different is a mix of pedals that change the sounds and tunings of guitars that also change the sounds of guitars. so that's why you get the whiny guitar noises some songs and it's why you get the dirty grungy sounds out of other genres.
I've listened to this song hundreds of times and only knew 10 words in the song. This video was eye opening lol
FINALLY!! I have typed Bush in superchat so many damn times during the live streams. I KNEW Lex was gonna dig Bush. The reaction was worth it!. Now if I can just get them to listen to Ultranumb by Blue Stahli we'll get to see that face again.
Mouth, The Chemicals Between Us, The Little Things (That Kill). If Glycerine, then the live Woodstock version for the whole Gavin Rossdale experience.
Great band / great song ! 🔥👍
Love the David Bowie references
Yall had me rolling on this one. She’s jamming the F out and your looking at the screen like your trying to figure out what calculus has to do with bananas 🤣
The thing about Bush is that Brits hated them apparently but they were really fucking solid for a few years. And, Gavin got to make babies with Gwen Stefani.
Grunge has a soft spot for me I am from Aberdeen WA home of Nirvana ! That's not the only reason It just has something more ?
Razorblade suitcase for the win.
Gavin will be proud, keep rocking Lex 🤘and the scratch sound is a pick slide
Bush. Without a doubt the most American sounding British band ever!
Bush -Letting the Cables Sleep
Swallowed is amazing and glycerine! Gavin was my crush for yrs and still is. He was so hot on stage killin it in the 90s!!! Perfection imo
Nice reaction to a band that brings me back! The guitars that Lex may be hearing is the contrast between the lead and rhythym instruments.
Loved playing this song back in the day. The band I played in had this in our rotation. It used to get the crowd pumped.
I closed my eyes and forgot I was watching a reaction for a hot minute🤣🤣
Apparently the "no sex in your violence" line is a reference to a song by Jane's Addiction which is about Ted Bundy.
Their roof top concert (semi acustic) is incredible
For years I thought he said, "ever been zen? I don't think so." 😂
Okay, so it's my 24th Birthday and my brother scored us tickets to see Bush with Veruca Salt opening in Little Rock!!! We had a couple girls with us too.
Anyway we work our way to the very front near the stage.
Between songs my brother yells out to Gavin that it's my birthday. Gavin looks over, walks over as the band is beginning Glycerine which is one of my many favs by them.
So the WHOLE song Gavin is just staring me in the eyes 3 feet from my face singing this beautiful song.
Now especially back then Gavin Rossdale is one of those people that are just described as beautiful. And when he's basically serenading you you can start to question your flexibility in certain areas.
Right then I hear the girl with my brother say OMG I would Eff him so hard. Then I hear my brother say back, "right now I would too". Such is the power of Gavin live!!!! 😉❤✌
Grunge rock in its finest
There was so much great music coming out back in the early 90s! This record just added to it all.. We were getting spoiled.. thought it wasn't going to stop. unfortunately, a few years later, the radio managed to ruin Rock AGAIN.. smh
Love Bush... seen them twice in concert and 16 stone which is the album this song is from is great. You should also react to the song "Comedown" if you want more rock or if you want a rock ballad then Glycerine. Gavin the lead singer is a great performer and full of energy if you get to see him live.
Great song.
She's LUVVING it ,.He's having a tough time,.lol
Back in high school we realized you could just put any words together and make a Bush song. So we would walk around going "Monkey dancing on pudding shoes. Two bits for a coconut. Mama pass me the tablecloth. Woke up with a mandolin. There's no sex in your violence."
Cant wait for Brad to try and make sense of these lyrics, lol
Check out 2020 BUSH as well - Bullet Holes, Blood River, Flowers On A Grave, & The Kingdom! Rocks!