Live Through This

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 38:16

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Pure Id, Something To Behold

Compulsive

This album went into my car stereo in 1994 and didn't leave for a year. Amazing stuff. Just listen to that 30 second sample of "Jennifer's Body" -- Courtney Love's pitch-challenged singing voice slides right into a rock growl and then an effortless caterwauling peak. Their cover of "Credit in the Straight World" is terrific, "Rock Star" has one of my favorite lyrics in rock (We look the same/We talk the same yeah yeah/We even fuck the same), and "Miss World" and "Violet" deserve a spot next to the best classics of the '90s.

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Excellent Example of Early 90s

Deutschehund

This is a fantastic 90s punk album. Disregard the comment from Erine C, who is obviously a member of the cult of Kurt Cobain. Sometimes people do kill themselves Ernie. And it is sad but it doesn't mean that someone else killed them. Give this album a try. It still holds up and it doesn't have that overplayed alternative rock station problem like other albums of the era.

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Go on! Take everything!

KrisWright

Say what you want about Courtney Love - and I probably have over the years - but "Live Through This" is one of the greatest albums of the 90s. Even if there had been no personal connection to Nirvana, you can hear the direct influence of that band on this record. But, you know what? It doesn't matter because Hole own that sound as completely as any other band. This is the feminine Nevermind, pure and simple. And almost every track is great. But if you're going to pick and choose, I say get "Violet", "Miss World", "Credit In The Straight World" and "Plump" to start out.

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Courtney Love completely revamped Hole before recording their second album, keeping only Eric Erlandson in the lineup. That is one of the reasons why Live Through This sounds so shockingly different from Pretty on the Inside, but the real reason is Love’s desire to compete in the same commercial alternative rock arena as her husband, Kurt Cobain. In fact, many rumors have claimed that Cobain ghostwrote a substantial chunk of the album, and while that’s unlikely, there’s no denying that his patented stop-start dynamics, bare chords, and punk-pop melodies provide the blueprint for Live Through This. Love adds her signature rage and feminist rhetoric to the formula, but the lyrics that truly resonate are the ones that unintentionally predict Cobain’s suicide. For all the raw pain of the lyrics, Live Through This rarely sounds raw because of the shiny production and the carefully considered dynamics. Despite this flaw, the album retains its power because it was one of the few records patterned on Nevermind that gets the formula right, with a set of gripping hooks and melodies that retain their power even if they follow the predictable grunge pattern. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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