Bush-Razorblade Suitcase (1996)


 

Artist: Bush

Title: Razorblade Suitcase

Label: Trauma/Interscope

Format: CD

Catalog Number: INTD-90091

Year of Release: 1996

Country and Year of Edition: US 1996 JVC pressing

Sell Price: $2.99

Sell Date: 6/16/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 6/20/26 VG+/VG+ $3.98

Low: $0.39

Median: $1.73

Average: $2.00

High: $4.40

Current low price: $0.80

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 105

Have/Want: 3315/121

Where Sold: Huntington Beach, CA

Time It Took To Sell:  11 years

Where and When Bought:  half.com $0.75 early aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No 

Albini did the best he could with Bush.  Cobain's carpet was barely dried when Gavin Rossdale's people hired Steve to create a sonic follow-up to In Utero.  Since the man wasn't alive to do it himself, why not Gavin?  He was dating Courtney Love according to the National Enquirer and/or Page Six around the time this was recorded after all.  Gavin didn't quite have the leather rasp Kurdt did, but that didn't matter so much to the 3 million people in the US that bought this (exactly half the people that bought Sixteen Stone).  

The only song I remember around the time this came out was "Swallowed."  A song which invites itself to be paraphased and sung mockingly.  The other oral one, "Mouth" has the same sucking quality with a Chicago backdrop.  You almost wonder how Steve could stand it day after day, but I guess he was a true paid professional after all.  I've had this on random Spotify shuffle all week so I could get used to the album before taking another start to finish take to write about it.  Mockable pain tracks like "History" and "A Tendency To Star Fires" take on an odd likability with repeated listenings.   I will say now I know the material a bit better after 30 years of curious avoidance.  I can say with some authority that this is a C+ record and not the C- grade I so badly want to impose.  It probably should have graded higher than the Drunk Tank record I gave a B to a couple weeks ago.  No way is this a B+, this actually reflects worse on Drunk Tank, maybe that should be a C or C+ and this a B-.

A conclusion made to the best of my ability.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Shellac-The Rude Gesture (A Pictorial History) (1993)

Shellac-Terraform (1998)

Happiness Is Dry Pants (1987)

Ground Rule Double (1996)

The Lounge Axe Defense and Relocation Compact Disc (1996)

Urge Overkill-Strange I...(1986)

Big Black-The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album (1987)

Tar-Play To Win b/w Mel's (1988)

Drunk Tank-Hayride with Mary Worth (1989)

Sixteen Tons-4 Songs (1989)

Tad-Loser b/w Cooking With Gas (1990)

The Wedding Present-Bizarro (1990)

Drunk Tank-Drunk Tank (1991)

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1992)

The Wedding Present-Go Go Dancer/Don't Cry No Tears (1992)

Theweddingpresent-Three b/w Think That It Might (1993)

Kudgel-Chicken Pump b/w Now (1993)

Nirvana-In Utero (1993)

PJ Harvey-Rid Of Me (1993)

Seam-Kernel (1993)

Shorty-Fresh Breath (1994)

Fred Schneider-Just...Fred (1996)

The Coctails-The Coctails (1996)

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant-Walking Into Clarksdale (1998)

June of 44-Four Great Points (1998)

TransChamps-Double Exposure (2001)

Three Second Kiss-Music Out Of Music (2003)

Mono-You Are There (2006)

Mogwai-Every Country's Sun (2017)


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