Machinehead (song)

"Machinehead"
Single by Bush
from the album Sixteen Stone
Released April 9, 1996
Format CD single
Recorded 1994
Genre Grunge[1]
Length 4:16
Label Trauma/Interscope
Writer(s) Gavin Rossdale
Producer(s) Clive Langer
Alan Winstanley
Bush
Bush singles chronology
"Glycerine"
(1995)
"Machinehead"
(1996)
"Swallowed"
(1996)

"Machinehead" is a hit single from rock band Bush, released in 1996 as the final single from their debut album Sixteen Stone.

Music video

The music video was directed by Shawn Mortensen on 21 November 1995 in London and Portmouth. If you watch closely you can see sections of Shepherd's Bush, where the band members used to live. Gavin Rossdale's dog Winston is also in the video.[2]

Commercial performance

The song reached the Top 5 of the Modern Rock Tracks as well as the Mainstream Rock Tracks, lifting the band to stardom in the 1990s. The song reached #43 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 4 May 1996 and #24 on the Hot 100 Airplay on 18 May 1996. The song was nominated for Best Video from a Film at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards but lost; however, it did win the MTV Movie Award for Best Song from a Movie at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards.

Track listing

Appearances in the media

Chart positions

Chart (1996) Peak
Position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart 40
Canadian RPM Alternative 30 1
UK Singles Chart[8] 48
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 43
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 24
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 4
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 4
Preceded by
"Champagne Supernova" by Oasis
Canadian RPM Alternative 30 number-one single
13 May 1996
Succeeded by
"Ahead by a Century" by The Tragically Hip

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