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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
In this case I'm sure there's a pretty good reason (probably memory-related) to why he's saying "glycerine", but there's no way of anybody possibly knowing that because it's unexplained - so perhaps stupidly inaccessible all the same.
I don't think Bush were by any means a "silly pop band". They jumped on the bandwaggon TO A POINT, though I'll say in earnest that I believe Gavin was well and truly honestly inspired by that music (i.e. Nirvana, Pixies etc.) and just wanted to emulate it the best he could, so to speak. Almost to the point of a tribute. The thing is, they emulated it and pillaged BETTER than EVERYBODY ELSE (possibly even Nirvana)! But that's not why they were so successful, no, it was more than that. See, it wasn't Gavin's plan or anything, but it just so happened that, him being dreamy 'n all, Bush were SUPER marketable to the entire population! He became the pin-up with the guitar! Things just worked in their favour, was all.
They were really a pretty important band, in reality. They were the most successful, biggest and probably the best post-grunge rip-off act that there was. Their work is at least deserving of some serious attention whether one likes it or otherwise. It's, at the least, educational.
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I think that assessment is pretty close to perfect. I personally don't like Bush but I agree completely that they were very inspired by grunge and chose to emulate the bits that they associated with. They managed to chop the ends off it, remove a lot of the emotion and make it neater and slicker... as perhaps they were more interested in the chugging instruments and groaning vocals.
Maybe this simplification of grunge was a cynical ploy to make the music a bit poptastic, or maybe they were just emphasising the bits they liked and it happened to come out nice and populist, either way I think you're completely right that when it was coupled with Gavin Rossdale's prettiness it was bound to sell millions.