It's hard to deny that "Swallowed"--the first single from Bush's difficult second ... more
albumRazorblade Suitcase--has a way with a rousing, seismic chorus. It's just a shame that the same dynamics were born with Husker Du, minted by The Pixies, and perfected...
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It's hard to deny that "Swallowed"--the first single from Bush's difficult second ... more
albumRazorblade Suitcase--has a way with a rousing, seismic chorus. It's just a shame that the same dynamics were born with Husker Du, minted by The Pixies, and perfected by Nirvana while Bush were still gigging their way around London's fleapits, waiting for their big break. No,Razorblade Suitcase--like Bush's debut,Sixteen Stone--isn't actually that bad. It's just perplexing to see a band this successful make a career out of stepping in other band's footsteps. Steve Albini, producer ofRazorblade Suitcasedoes his erstwhile best to pervert Bush's radio-clean grunge, as on "Insect Kin"--but as he was the producer of Nirvana'sIn Utero, you can't help but feel thatRazorblade Suitcaseapes that record's fractured angst as surely asSixteen Stonecrept in on the tail ofNevermind.--Louis Pattison
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Advantages: It's good Disadvantages: but it could be so much better
The lesson to be learnt from bush's RazorbladeSuitcase album is that you should never let Steve Albini produce anything if you want to get it right. The man may be king of badly recorded hardcore but that does not really qualify him to produce a band like bush. I would not say that this album was a bad job as it has got some fairly huge tunes on it but in no way is it anywhere near the standard of the previous album, 16 stone. The track 'Swallowed' is a good song but once again we have the situation where the big single from an album just sticks out like a sore thumb. Bush should have stuck to just playing huge songs with a passion instead of trying to get too clever about it all which is what they seen to have done here. ...
Advantages: some amazing songs Disadvantages: none
I?ve never understood my so many people hate bush and even less why so many people have never heard of them ? well at least not until The science of things. RazorbladeSuitcase may not be as good as 16 stone but it?s not far of. When you get bored (doesn?t happen often I know) of 16 stone listen to this one. Greedy fly has got to be one of their best songs, swallowed is also up there. I have heard that there is another new album on the way in the not too distant future, I hope for all our sakes that it is better then The Science of Things, I understand that bands want to move forward and all that but sometimes I really don?t see the point. ...
Advantages: Loads of great tracks Disadvantages: None that I have found so far
Probably the best Bush album currently available. Quite different to "The Science of Things", this album is slightly more upbeat. The track that everybody will recognise no doubt is "Swallowed" their first big hit. This is a quality track but is matched by others on the album, less well know, including "Personal Holloway", "Communicator" and "Mouth". This should be the starting point of anyone who like some Bush songs but has not yet bough an album. As one of those albums that you can listen to all the way through without skipping any one track it is great value for money. ...
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Product details
Title
Razorblade Suitcase
Performer
Bush
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Grunge
Release Date
02/1997
Original Release Year
1997
Label / Distributor
Interscope / Universal Music
Engineer
Steve Albini
Producer
Steve Albini
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
606949009120
Additional notes
Album Notes
Bush: Gavin Rossdale (guitar, vocals); Nigel Pulsford (guitar); Dave Parsons (bass); Robin Goodridge (drums). Additional personnel: Winston (vocals); Gavyn Wright, Perry Montague-Mason (violin); Bill Hawkes (viola); Frank Schaefer (cello). Recorded at Sarm Hook End, Berkshire, England and Abbey Road, London, England. "Swallowed" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Bush is now a household word in rock and roll, but 5 million records later, with its two-year-old debut still in the Top 100, the British band's blustering alternative rock hasn't lost its bite or its cynicism. Several songs on the band's second record will pummel you with blistering guitar feedback, burly bass lines and pounding drums, while the slower tracks will drag you down into the deepest recesses of rock melancholia. If there's one thing for certain on RAZORBLADE SUITCASE, it's that Bush is attempting to record its disillusionment with as much fidelity as possible. The band gets a good push toward that goal from Steve Albini, whose production magnifies the band's desperate edge. The songs twist and turn in a prickly verse-chorus-verse format, in pursuit of a comforting closure that doesn't always arrive. Gavin Rossdale's wavering tenor shoots a dose of internalized turmoil straight into the heart. And when Rossdale sardonically rasps, "we're all the confusion, we're all the rage," it's clear the band's success hasn't dulled its edges. Bush's righteous bitterness, along with its forceful, uncompromising musicality, gives RAZORBLADE SUITCASE sharp teeth.
Album Reviews
Q (1/98, p.111) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997." Q (2/97, p.97) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...like all half decent bands on their second album, Bush are evolving into their own men with a hugely appealing sound that is distinctly theirs....Ultimately, RAZORBLADE SUITCASE is SIXTEEN STONE with more confidence...and what seems to be a deliberate attempt to push out the corners of their own envelope..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Personal Holloway
2.
Greedy Fly
3.
Swallowed
4.
Insect Kin
5.
Cold Contagious
6.
Tendency To Start Fires
7.
Mouth
8.
Straight No Chaser
9.
History
10.
Synapse
11.
Communicator
12.
Bonedriven
13.
Distant Voices
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