10 Most Hated Grunge Albums Of All Time
2. Sixteen Stone - Bush
By the time we reached 1992, grunge was absolutely everywhere. While it may not have gotten on the charts as much as you remember, the sound of the underground was being overtaken by all things flannel and depressed, with every band trying to crib a little bit from the Pacific Northwest. On the other hand, Bush's debut was where grunge first started to look more like a caricature than an actual legit genre of music.
Coming just a few years after the initial grunge explosion, Sixteen Stone is actually a pretty solid record from front to back. As opposed to its flogging with the purists, tracks like Machinehead and Glycerine are still fairly decent when put up against the cream of the crop. No...this record gets hated not so much for the actual songs but rather the aesthetic that was built around it.
Considering that most of the artists came from Seattle, the idea of Gavin Rossdale being imported from England with his flannel heartthrob look made everything feel like the grunge sound was more down to a science now. Hell, if this one guy from a completely different continent could make millions off of these angsty tunes, what's stopping everyone else? Bush's later career certainly had more highlights than many are willing to admit, but at the time, this was the moment where grunge started to be more about fashion than substance.