Today a song called Skinny Little Bitch was released under the band name 'Hole'. For those of you who didn't live as a teenager in the 90's, that was @CourtneyLoveUK's band that was pretty awesome and important to a lot of girls and gays. The band that wrote Skinny Little Bitch, however, is the not the Hole of the 90's. This incarnation of Hole is Courtney Love and some studio musicians writing irrelevant alt-rock music. There's no Patty Schemel, no Eric Erlandson and not even a Melissa Auf Der Maur anywhere near this, so for our purposes, let's refrain from calling it Hole.
Hole, for a lot of us, was like a gateway band into riot grrrl. Without Hole would Midwestern kids like me have heard of Bikini Kill or countless other 'girl' bands? I'm not so sure. Their influence on weirdo teen girls of the era is undeniable. But besides all that, Live Through This consisted of great song after great song and although not AS good, Pretty On The Inside is a classic too. To be honest, I still think Live Through This is pretty much amazing and will proudly wear my Hole tshirt whenever I dig it out of the pile of black tshirts on my floor...But I would be lying if I said I liked this new song. I mean, I it's no surprise since Celebrity Skin was terrible as well, but with so much talk over the years about Nobody's Daughter I guess I just expected more from "Hole".
But you don't take my word for it...
Hole - Skinny Little Bitch (Download HERE)
And check out some vintage Hole too!
Hole - 20 Years in the Dakota
Hole - Gutless
4 comments:
wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. well, right about the new incarnation.
love
DeShawn Timothy
PRETTY ON THE INSIDE WAS WAY BETTER THAN LIVE THROUGH THIS. TOOK WHAT MELVINS, NIRVANA AND ALL THE BOYS OF THE PUNK SCENE OF THE LATE 80's WERE DOING AND BROUGHT IT ALL FROM A FEMALE/FEMME PRESPECTIVE, songs about sex work, rape, misogyny. Usually whenever a straight punk boy hates on me for being a Hole fan, 8 times out of 10 he probably hasn't heard Pretty On the Inside, and usually when I do play pretty on the inside for them they have a totally different view point of Hole, the album was not really trying to be grunge but more experimental/no wave ala sonic youth. Sorry if this sounds pretentious, but you need to give a bit more credit to her other albums, I think celebrity skin is a wonderful rock/pop album, just different.
Alex,
Thanks for commenting. I definitely appreciate your opinion. In my opinion, Live Through This retains some of the raw elements that made POTI great and adds the pop that Celebrity Skin went overboard on...so to me it's like a perfect middle ground.
Also, I know I'm probably in the minority about not liking Celebrity Skin, but I just don't. I'm not trying to be some music authority, this blog is just a collection of opinions and my opinion is that I don't like that record.
Sorry I didn't mean to come off rude, I do agree Live through this is a good middle ground. Thanks for posting yr opinions and responding with your opinions too. Let's just hope when she plays live she has a good selection of early stuff in the mix!
xo
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