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artist:Bush
album:sixteen stone
Gavin Rossdale really likes to talk about penis. a lot. i never realized that until this listen, but holy smokes he talks an awful lot about penis. i guess it makes a lot of sense given his confession of relations with a cross-dressing pop star back in the 80's.
back when this CD came out, i was obsessed with it (and with Gavin Rossdale, go figure...) and couldn't get enough. i had it on cassette at the time, of course, and used to listen to it so much that i feared the tape snapping in half. fortunately, though, it didn't...though my cassette player did find itself broken and obsolete, as did the cassette.
this is yet another 1994 release. i don't know if you know it or not, but i have decided that 1994 was my favorite year for music since I've been alive. i feel like all of the albums i have ever really loved came out in 1994, and all of the albums since then have been inspired in some fashion or another by those albums. music is cyclical, so these albums were all inspired by some other time in music, but as for my lifetime, 1994 is the pinnacle.
i have two distinct memories of this album. the first comes from my 16th birthday. daddy gave me tickets to go see a flyers game (we beat the caps 3-2) and took me out to dinner. we were in the truck, and dad was already listening to classical music at this point, but i argued that since it was my birthday he should let me pick the music, and i put on Y100 (have you been able to tell yet how much i miss that station??) and "glycerine" was on the radio. daddy made fun of it, singing "Listerine" and that is still how i hear the song to this day.
memory number two comes from my friend crystal's 16th birthday party. i had gone to the party with her, and it was at her cousin's house, so i had to stick around even after all of our friends had left and it was just her family. her cousin was our age and they were pretty close, so we all went inside to hang out and listen to music. this was the first time id ever seen sixteen stone on CD and i couldn't get over how freaking hot the picture of Gavin on the back was. i wanted to steal the picture out of the back but of course, didn't. from that moment on i wanted the CD for myself, but never actually got around to buying it until a year or two ago when i saw it in the cheap bin at tunes.
i don't honestly know how often ill listen to this CD these days. i think the purchase was more a nostalgia thing than anything else. i was bored today, driving around running errands and listening to this CD, and kind of couldn't wait to get through to the end so i could start on something else.
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