Glycerine
by Bush
- 114
- BPM
- F major
- Key
- 7B
- Camelot
- 45
- Danceability
- 4
- Acousticness
In 1993, a year after forming Bush in London, Gavin Rossdale sat down in his flat and wrote "Glycerine" about his girlfriend at the time, Suze DeMarchi. He later said he felt like a conduit and that the song was bigger than anything the band was doing. It struck him as more sophisticated than his earlier work. He checked with his bandmates to make sure he had not played an existing song by accident.
Sixteen Stone, the band's debut album, came out in 1994 and found immediate success outside the UK. "Glycerine" went to radio in November 1995 as its fourth single and reached stores in January 1996. The B-side, "Solomon's Bones," was recorded on November 7, 1995, at River Studios in London, with Joel Monger engineering.
The video was shot in a hurry while the band toured the United States. Their visas had expired. Kevin Kerslake directed it in Atlanta on October 2, 1995, and portions were also filmed in Worcester, Massachusetts, on August 19. It won the Viewer's Choice award at the MTV Video Music Awards and was nominated for Best Alternative Video.
Glycerine runs at 114 BPM, the tempo of pop, funk and disco-leaning dance. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.11 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 526 ms. It is in F major, Camelot 7B, which shares its notes with D minor and mixes cleanly with Bb major and C major.
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