“Swallowed” by Bush

Bush pushed "Swallowed" out to American radio in October 1996, the first single from their second album, Razorblade Suitcase, and it's a power ballad with the fuzz left in. Steve Albini produced and engineered, keeping the sound raw and roomy, with Gavin Rossdale singing and playing guitar alongside Nigel Pulsford, Dave Parsons on bass and Robin Goodridge on drums.

Rossdale later said that although it sounds nothing like it, the song was his own take on the Beatles' "Help!". Music Week gave it four stars out of five and figured it would finally be the band's big hit back home, while The Times liked the melody but not the lyric or the Nirvana moves. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1998, though the Smashing Pumpkins' "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" took the prize.

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