Everything Zen

"Everything Zen"
Single by Bush
from the album Sixteen Stone
Released January 28, 1995 (1995-01-28)
Format CD
Recorded 1994
Genre Grunge
Length 4:38 (Album version)
4:02 (Edit)
Label Trauma
Interscope
Writer(s) Gavin Rossdale
Producer Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Bush
Bush singles chronology
- "Everything Zen"
(1995)
"Little Things"
(1995)

"Everything Zen" is the debut single released by British alternative rock band Bush in early 1995 from their debut album Sixteen Stone.

Contents

Music video

The video was the first video Bush had ever made. The video was directed by Matt Mahurin, who also makes an appearance in the video wearing a mask, and was shot on the 12 and 13 of November 1994. Scenes from the video were used in the opening credits of the TV series Millennium.

Gavin Rossdale on the making of the video:

"I hadn't even seen that many videos before making this because I never had MTV. I just remember that it felt weird miming with all those people standing around, but you soon get over that. Obviously, this video was hugely important in breaking us in America."[1]

Parody

The song was parodied on Bill Nye the Science Guy in the episode "Animal Locomotion".

Commercial perfomance

Although it did not achieve immediate success, it eventually reached number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart and number 5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Canadian Rock/Alternative chart that year.

Track listing

Chart positions

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Canadian Alternative Chart 5
US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 5
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 2
ARIA Charts 41
MegaCharts 45

References

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