Bush - Zen X Four (2005)

Zen X Four is a 2005 live CD with a DVD containing most of the music videos of British band Bush. The album cover photography and band logo were originally featured on their second album, Razorblade Suitcase. Live songs performed at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas on 16 December 1995.

When someone writes a grunge review, usually within the first paragraph there are numerous mentions of Kurt Cobain, the face of grunge. There's no doubt that he's a musical icon in popular culture. Grunge was a rather big thing in the early nineties. But with the tragic death of Kurt, it seemed that grunge, the most promising music at the time, had come to an abrupt stop. They weren't exactly right, but they weren't wrong either. Bush was a British grunge band, who just heard word about grunge a few years before their first release, Sixteen Stone, was released. Fronted by Gavin Rossdale, who currently is more famous for his love life with popular icon Gwen Stefani, Bush was little more than four British boys with a desire to rock and make it big. Moving to America to start a more promising career in music, Bush landed a record deal with Interscope and their career began to take flight. With Sixteen Stone, Bush kept on dropping the hits (Machinehead, Little Things and Comedown are the most prominent), but while big in America, their homeland was not as interested, as it was moving on to a more general audience friendly scene. But their second release, Razorblade Suitcase, was supposedly a letdown. Deemed worst album of the year by media giants Rolling Stone, followed by another underestimated album Weezer's Pinkerton. But the hits kept coming and coming, and following a good few years, Bush put out five albums and eventually disbanded in 2002 following the unsuccessful Golden State.

We drop off at this album. It could've been a compilation of their best songs, it could've been a live album, it could've been a videography. Instead, they throw all of these things at us at once, giving us little time to exactly figure out what this was. Regardless, this is a great album with some stellar live versions of classic songs, and some just plain eery videos, most notably the Greedy Fly video. We'll get into that later, though.

Gavin Rossdale: Lead Vocals, Guitars,
Nigel Pulsford: Guitars
Dave Parsons: Bass
Robin Goodridge: Drums

Track List:
01. Comedown (Acoustic) 05:09
02. Glycerine (Acoustic) 03:32
03. Everything Zen (Acoustic) 05:10
04. Machinehead (Live) 04:48
05. Comedown (Live) 05:47
06. Bomb (Live) 07:33
07. Glycerine (Live) 04:19
08. Everything Zen (Live) 06:03
09. Little Things (Live) 07:13