Released in 1996, I got this on cassette originally, which I found in a 3 for $10 bin.
But I didn’t get it when it came out. It was a few years later and I got the CD recently at a record fair. Again it was in a 3 for $10 box.
Personal Holloway
Press play to hear the bass guitar riff.
Greedy Fly
It’s basically an artist writing a song, without a thought of it being a hit. And somehow it gets released as a single and it’s seen as a hit. I like the feel of the verses, the way the bass rumbles and those open string droning notes on the guitars builds up into the Chorus.
Swallowed
The lead single, and it followed a “Live (band) vibe”.
At 30.5 million Spotify streams it’s definitely the hit song from the album. But it pales compared to “Glycerine” at 151 million streams or “Machinehead” at 91.6 million streams.
Insect Kin
Press play to hear how the song starts with the snare groove and how it just keeps building. You get to hear Rossdale throw his throat out in the singing.
Cold Contagious
It has a cool drum groove, with the guitars decorating the song in a nice way, as Rossdale is singing, “you will get yours” with the volume and intensity increasing. And at six minutes long, it’s the anti-single, but it still got released as a single.
A Tendency To Start Fires
The verses hook me, but the Chorus loses me.
Mouth
It’s almost like the song “Black Sabbath”. Listen to it in its doom like feel.
“Nothing hurts like your mouth”
Truth right there. We might forget the words but we never forget the feeling.
Straight, No Chaser
They tried to re-write “Glycerine” but they didn’t get close.
History
I like the intro guitar riff on this. It just didn’t go on long enough.
Synapse
The Chorus is a favourite, very Bowie like.
Communicator
It’s “Mouth” part 2.
Bonedriven
Another cool guitar riff to start if off but overall the song doesn’t connect with me as I felt they really tried hard to recreate “Glycerine”.
Distant Voices
They should have ended the album with “Synapse” as the last three songs drag it down.
Like “Sixteen Stone”, it was the accessible singles of the album that got me interested in the album and then it was a matter of discovering some cool sections here and there.
They did an electronic remix album after this and they lost me with that cash grab. And I didn’t check out “The Science Of Things” until recently.
destroyerofharmony 
At that time here in Canada they were known as BUSH X as a Canuck act owned the name but eventually it all got settled…
Bush X
It sound like a 4WD.
Ha
I liked these guys well enough. I’ve had a few of their albums at times. I want to say one of their more recent albums was pretty good but the name of it escapes me (I guess it wasn’t that good LOL!)
Yes I know which album you are talking about. I liked it as well but also can’t remember the name without googling the name.
I went and looked in my library. The Kingdom!
Yep that one. I remember the cover image but not the title. lol
It took me a minute but now I recall Swallowed. I’m not sure I’ve heard the full album. I never quite “got into” them but their singles were ever-present especially from the first album.
The singles are the draw. And then you hear stuff that’s like what the… lol