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Razorblade Suitcase by Bush
Razorblade Suitcase is an album by Bush, released in 1996. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 101 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Swallowed”, on 42 lists with a best position of #16.
Razorblade Suitcase, Bush's second album, came out in America on Trauma and Interscope on 19 November 1996, and it's the sound of a band that got famous fast deciding to rough itself up. They took the songs to Abbey Road in London and handed them to Steve Albini, the engineer-producer behind Nirvana's In Utero, and the comparisons to that record have followed it ever since.
Gavin Rossdale sings and plays guitar, Nigel Pulsford is on guitar, Dave Parsons on bass and Robin Goodridge on drums, and this time there's no gloss to hide behind. The polish of the debut Sixteen Stone gives way to a rawer sound: grinding guitars, a room-shaking drum sound and Rossdale's rasp right up front. "Swallowed" was the big one on rock radio, with "Greedy Fly" and "Mouth" close behind.
It crashed into the Billboard 200 at number one, moving 293,000 copies in the US in its opening week, and it is still the only Bush album ever to top that chart. The UK got it in January 1997, and in 2016 it came back remastered as Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition), with four rare tracks added.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Razorblade Suitcase on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swallowed | 42 | #16 | – | 1996–2023 | |
| 2 | Greedy Fly | 23 | #20 | – | 1996–2023 | |
| 3 | Mouth | 27 | #22 | – | 1997–2023 | |
| 4 | Cold Contagious | 9 | #40 | – | 1997–1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.