10 Great Songs By HATED Hard Rock Bands
9. Machinehead - Bush
The grunge scene of Seattle hit the entire music world like an atom bomb. Suddenly, the hair metal of just a few weeks ago was replaced with the loud guitars and flannel shirts from the Pacific Northwest. But as with everything the music business, when something good comes out, the labels want 20 more of them.
Out of all the copycat bands, Bush tended to get the most criticism for riding the coattails of Kurt Cobain's legacy, with songs like "Glycerine" sounding like the grunge equivalent of a power ballad. However, the band's record Sixteen Stone did produce at least one good tune in "Machinehead," whose opening riff hits you right between the eyes.
Given the song's topic of feeling robotic, the riff is the ideal equivalent of the glitchy atmosphere of cyberspace. The main crux of the song is the same ho-hum chord progression of rock music, but the more artificial sound of the tune actually makes it feel new and exciting...if only for a few minutes.
Even some of the grunge heavyweights couldn't resist it, with Courtney Love calling it one of the best songs of the 90's. Bush may have been considered grunge imposters, but "Machinehead" showed that they at least knew a thing or two about how to write a great song.