Description:This whole album is filled with scathing fury, mostly directed at the impossible situation that confronts women when they are asked to be both wild sources of pleasure and unblemished mother figures. Live Through This uses the same recipe of punk and metal wrapped around pop melodies that made Nirvana so captivating, but Hole uses theThis whole album is filled with scathing fury, mostly directed at the impossible situation that confronts women when they are asked to be both wild sources of pleasure and unblemished mother figures. Live Through This uses the same recipe of punk and metal wrapped around pop melodies that made Nirvana so captivating, but Hole uses the methodology in a more conventional manner. The metal ingredient tends to dominate, perhaps because it's the simplest to master, and too often the album resembles early Heart or late Joan Jett--particularly when Courtney Love opens up with her big, wailing voice. Love externalizes her anger, blaming all her problems on the rest of the world. Self-confrontation makes for far more interesting songs. --Geoffrey Himes... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Fontana Geffen Release date : 12 April 1994 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0720642463123 UPC: 720642463123
"Maybe Courtney ripped these songs off from Kurt, maybe not. I'm just glad it got recorded because there's not a bad song on here.
Favorite song: "She Walks On Me"
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"Released: April 12, 1994
Genres: Grunge, Alternative Rock, Riot Grrrl
Favourite Tracks:
- Asking For It
- Doll Parts
- Miss World
- Softer. Softest
- Violet"
"Cassette. 1994.
Side One:
1. Violet
2. Miss World
3. Plump
4. Asking For It
5. Jennifer's Body
6. Doll Parts
Side Two:
1. Credit In The Straight World
2. Softer, Softest
3. She Walks On Me
4. I Think That I Would Die
5. Gutless
6. Rock Star"
""On Hole's breakthrough album, Courtney Love wants to be "the girl with the most cake," and spends the whole album paying for it, in the melodic punk-rock anguish of "Miss World," "Softer, Softest" and "Doll Parts." Sadly, her husband Kurt Cobain's body was found just days before the album was released.""
"“Released a week after Kurt Cobain's suicide, rumors started immediately that it was Cobain, not his wife, Courtney Love, who wrote the majority of these churningly catchy songs. Forget that there's no proof, that their marriage was collaborative and that it's a nasty thing to say, Live Through This is clearly a woman's work. It's about exploitation, which explains Love's amp curdling anger on "Jennifer's Body" and "Plump," but it's also funny, self-aware ("I fake it so real I am beyond fake")"
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