14 April 2024

Courtney Love and HOLE released their 2nd LP LIVE THROUGH THIS on 12 April 1994,
30 years ago. A blazing blast of a dynamite grunge rock record with awesome tracks such as Violet, Miss World, Plump, Doll Parts and Softer, Softest. You love or you hate Courtney, but I can’t see any reason whatsoever to hate this 5-star album.

– VIOLET –

– DOLL PARTS –

Rolling Stone wrote: “Courtney Love became a widow just days before her band Hole
released their breakthrough album, giving Live Through This a grueling, ripped-from-the-headlines intensity. Written while her husband Kurt Cobain’s life was spinning out of control and recorded by a band mired in drug problems (bassist Kristen Pfaff would overdose in June ’94), it still managed to move past the scabrous noise of Hole’s 1991 debut Pretty on the Inside with a clear, catchy urgency.

Debate raged about how much Cobain had assisted in Love’s amazing transformation as a songwriter (his backing vocals appear on the album, and his influence his everywhere). But this was Love’s show and she stormed through it, demanding to be “the girl with the most cake” and eating it too. ”

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