{"id":415,"date":"2013-10-05T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2014-04-02T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:37:09","slug":"rs-460-hole-live-through-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"RS #460: Hole – Live Through This"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hole,\u00a0Live Through This<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a01994
\nPreviously Owned:<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nFirst Time Listen:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Hole,
I did! I did live through this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Impressions:\u00a0<\/strong>We shall see if I can live though this… Snappy opening song “Violet” indicates the music\u00a0and production is state-of-the-art for 1994, well into the\u00a0grunge hayday. It goes without saying that Courtney Love is a mess\u00a0vocally and personallly, but it kind of seems like by design? She also mimics her husband’s Kurt Cobain’s wounded hollering (or was it the other way around?) but adds a feminist edge. Harrowing songs like “Asking For It” and “I Think That I Would Die” make you wonder if everyone was this fractured and broken in the ’90s? Maybe only those who got on the radio. She hits you over the head with songs like the catchy,\u00a0overwrought\u00a0“Miss World,” but it still seems to still get the point across. Lost in all the off-stage baggage is that her band is actually pretty skilled. They do an aces imitation of Nirvana’s loud\/quiet dynamic (“Gutless”) that is far superior to most of the bands that were copying this style at the time. “Doll Parts” seems like self-parody, but it’s hard to tell with her. I still cannot hear that song without imagining her singing “Someday you will bake like I bake.” Being Mrs. Cobain, it’s possible that Love never got a fair shake with fans and critics when this came out, but I still don’t really respond to her tortured delivery. To this album’s credit,\u00a0I will say that in\u00a0age of American Idol that it’s amazing something this raw lyrically was considered popular music at one point.<\/p>\n

Starred Songs: <\/strong>“Miss World,” “Doll Parts”
\nSneaky Track:\u00a0<\/strong>“Jennifer’s Body,” “Gutless”
\nShould this album be on the\u00a0list?<\/strong>\u00a0Ehh. It’s well made, but I don’t see it lasting. If I have a hankering for this style, I’d probably rather listen to\u00a0Throwing Muses, Belly, Pixies, Nirvana, et al.
\nReplace with: <\/strong>Hmm, good question. Not sure it should be on the list, but I like Throwing Muses The Real Ramona<\/em>\u00a0a lot better than this album.
\n<\/strong>Will you listen to this again?<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nVerdict: <\/strong>Well-crafted Nirvana clone with Love’s painful lyrics adds up to a solid mid-90s grunge album, but top 500 of all time?<\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2605\u26051\/2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#460 Hole,\u00a0Live Through This Release Date:\u00a01994 Previously Owned:\u00a0No First Time Listen:\u00a0Yes Impressions:\u00a0We shall see if I can live though this… Snappy opening song “Violet” indicates the music\u00a0and production is state-of-the-art for 1994, well into the\u00a0grunge hayday. It goes without saying that Courtney Love is a mess\u00a0vocally and personallly, but it kind of seems like by … Continue reading RS #460: Hole – Live Through This<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,13,10,134,9],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolling-stone-top-500-albums","tag-61","tag-2-5-stars","tag-first-time-listen","tag-hole","tag-unowned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/batterymedia.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}