Hole - Doll PartsAlbum: Live Through This [1994]
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" sounded so shockingly different from "pretty on the inside", but the real reason was love's desire to compete in the same commercial alternative rock arena as her husband, kurt cobain. in fact, many rumours claimed that cobain wrote a substantial chuck of the album (just as billy corgan wrote a lot of 1998's "celebrity skin"), and while that may be unlikely, there's no denying that his patented stop-start dynamics, bare chords, and punk-pop melodies provide the blueprint for the album. love adds her signature rage and feminist rhetoric to the formula, but the lyrics that truly resonate are the ones that unintentionally predicted cobain's suicide. for all the raw pain of the lyrics, "live through this" rarely sounds raw because of the shiny production. however, the album retains its power because it was one of the few records patterned on "nevermind" that got the formula right, with a set of gripping hooks and melodies stand strong even if they follow the predictable grunge pattern. with songs like "miss world" and "violet" in the mix, along with the fact the album was released only one week after cobain's suicide, this release was one of the more interesting of its time.
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