Swallowed (song)

"Swallowed"
Single by Bush
from the album Razorblade Suitcase
Released 15 October 1996
Format CD, 7"
Recorded 1996
Length 4:51 (Album Version)
4:08 (UK Radio Edit)
4:22 (Australian Radio Edit)
4:25 (music video)
Label Trauma/Interscope
Songwriter(s) Gavin Rossdale
Producer(s) Steve Albini
Bush singles chronology
"Machinehead"
(1996)		 "Swallowed"
(1996)		 "Greedy Fly"
(1997)

"Machinehead"
(1996)		 "Swallowed"
(1996)		 "Greedy Fly"
(1997)
Alternative Covers

UK CD2 Cover

'Swallowed' is a song by British alternative rock band Bush. It was released on 15 October 1996 as the lead single from the band's 1996 album, Razorblade Suitcase, which topped the US Billboard 200 chart.[1] It was later included on the remix album Deconstructed, the live album Zen X Four, and the Bush greatest hits compilation. The song was featured in the TV series Cold Case and My Mad Fat Diary. A remix of the song was featured in the film The Jackal.

Commercial performance

"Swallowed" was released as the lead single from the follow-up to their massively successful debut album, Sixteen Stone, which was released two years prior. Upon release, the song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven consecutive weeks and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. This is the longest Bush ever stayed at number one on any chart. It was also Bush's biggest hit in their native Britain, where it peaked at number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards, but lost to the Smashing Pumpkins' "The End Is the Beginning Is the End". This was the band's fourth crossover hit to Top 40 radio after "Comedown", "Glycerine", and "Machinehead".

Song Information

The song is in A-flat major.

Music video

The music video, directed by Jamie Morgan, was filmed in October 1996 and released later that month, is set in a retro apartment with myriad alternative youths. A neon crucifix (which would later become the album cover for Deconstructed) is frequently interspersed amongst the antics of houseguests. The video was shot at Twickenham Studios England and in Florida[2]

The video was nominated for several MTV Video Music Awards.

Track listing

Chart positions

Chart (1996–97) Peak
position
Australia ARIA Charts[3] 25
Canadian RPM Singles Chart 5
Canadian RPM Alternative 30 1
Irish Singles Chart[4] 22
Netherlands MegaCharts[3] 100
UK Singles Chart[5] 7
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[6] 1
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[7] 2
US Radio Songs (Billboard)[8] 27
Preceded by
"What I Got" by Sublime		 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
16 November – 28 December 1996 		Succeeded by
"#1 Crush" by Garbage
Preceded by
Stinkfist by Tool		 Canadian RPM Alternative 30 number-one single
2 December 1996 – 13 January 1997 		Succeeded by
"#1 Crush" by Garbage

References


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