#1,623 – “Mouth (The Stingray Mix)”

The AV Club used to run a tremendous column every December entitled, “The Least Essential Albums” of the Year. It wasn’t a list of the worst music (though most of it was bad), rather it was a collection of music that seemingly had no audience. A recent-ish example being the collection(s) of Sinatra covers performed by the guitar player from Creed.

One of the most inessential albums of 1997 would have to be Deconstructed, an hour-plus worth of “electronica” remixes of songs by Bush. Even Gavin Rossdale didn’t seem to be too on board with it, saying: “It was an interesting idea, to try and mix two completely different genres, maybe influence the whole dance and techno scene with some good old fashioned rock. In a way, they are the old singles, but remixed they’ve got a completely different slant which is certainly interesting.”

Maybe I would have thought higher of this song if the album had been called Certainly Interesting.