"Awful" was great then, and just gets better with age.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
First proper blog entry is up -- https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/1-celebrity-skin/. One of my favorite album openers of all time.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 13 January 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
(I didn't even get to some of my favorite lines in the song, because I realized I could write a paragraph each on nearly every one.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 13 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Reasons to be Beautiful deserves a vote!
This album has really withstood the test of time huh? Listening to it right now and it’s so good. Also a good document on where alt rock and the music industry was at the end of the 90’s, huge budget, glossy production and Love becoming finally a big, mainstream rockstar.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
yeah it still sounds so warm & ~lush~
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
This month, my wife weighs in on "Awful." https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/2-awful/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
oh i love it! it shows how much older i am than she is because i totally identified with this "a big sister who’s gone through the wringer"i never really thought about how it would sound to someone younger than me, it's way more powerful than i gave it credit for! when i was 16 i had "sixteen blue" :-/ everything drags and drags
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Man I have to listen to this record again. I've been on a Nirvana kick lately but on balance Live Through This + Celebrity Skin is about as good as Nevermind + In Utero.
― It's like an Christian pop (thewufs), Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:29 (six years ago) link
Musically I'd still give the edge to Nirvana but lyrically the decision goes to Hole, no question. Did Kurt ever write anything as profound or with as many bons mots as "Awful"? And there's more where that came from.
― It's like an Christian pop (thewufs), Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
If I was to draw up a list of essential '90s American alternative rock albums, both of those albums would be no-brainers to include!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:44 (six years ago) link
Next entry on the Celebrity Skin blog: Hit So Hard. https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/3-hit-so-hard/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
OK, didn't quite make my April deadline for this, but here's Malibu: https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/4-malibu/.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
<3
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Next! This month, Jody Beth considers “Reasons to Be Beautiful.” https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/05/10/5-reasons-to-be-beautiful/
Courtney’s miles and miles of perfect skin are not contiguous: they start around the blonde yoginis of Sunset Junction and flow out to in-home glam squads of the Palisades, and they start around the Korean spas of Wilshire Center and zoom off to the surgeons in Westwood high-rises and get stuck in traffic en route to a sugaring session in Santa Monica, and they twist up the 101 through the restful shade trees of Laurel Canyon and bounce over the potholes outside every specialty chemist and dermatologist on Ventura Boulevard until the Valley peters out in Kardashian Kountry somewhere. There’s imperfect skin, of course, but it lives to the side of the step-and-repeat. It opens the mail and sends the rejections. It knows that Bar Keepers Friend gets unusual stains out of porcelain. You tip it a pittance at holidays, maybe.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
And for June, "Dying." (Which is about surviving.)
https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/6-dying/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
This month, Anthony Easton has thoughts about Courtney, Kim Gordon, Olympia and L.A.
https://celebrityhole.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/7-use-once-and-destroy/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 July 2018 11:28 (five years ago) link
(their innocence tastes like candy, yeah / get so fat on it it's a tragedy, yeah ) <--- one of CL's career highlights imo. Rarely listen to it because the verses are kinda irritating to my ears, but so very exhilarating.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
the best rock album of the ‘90s
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
IT'S FUCKIN WONDERFUL THEY SOLD YOU OUT
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 15, 2011
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 19, 2016 7
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
This poll should be redone, I suspect many many people didn’t see it and thus didn’t vote
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Not sure if I voted at the time. Would’ve been “Malibu” for me.
i’m happy to repoll this one even though deciding between “boys on the radio” and “petals” should be illegal
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings),
oh make me over?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
I’m all I wanna be
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Poll Twice and Destroy
the best rock album of the ‘90s― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:37 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:37 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
miles and miles of perfect posts!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
the revive reminds me that I need to go back and finish that song by song project. I started a business in the middle of that and never went back to it.
I voted for Awful in this poll, I think I'd probably go Boys on the Radio now.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
The production sounds kind of close to nevermind but a notch below
― calstars, Sunday, 19 June 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
There’s some very weird vocal manipulation happening here and there
I never warmed to this record the way I did to the one before TBH
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 June 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
(I guess I prefer “punk” Hole to Fleetwood Mac Hole, or whatever)
― Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 June 2023 02:07 (nine months ago) link
I love the Runaways vibe of "Awful."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 25 June 2023 02:44 (nine months ago) link
It wouldn't be my number one choice but I feel like "Hit So Hard" is weirdly underrated by virtue of being so obvious in its Corganisms (whereas "Malibu" feels sui generis even though it's not really). Melissa's sighing harmonies are A+. A perfect album pretty much.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 June 2023 06:42 (nine months ago) link