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Live Through This
Rock · 1994 · 11 tracks

Live Through This

Hole

A volatile collision of sugar-coated melodies and visceral, distorted rage. It captures the sharp edge of survival through jagged riffs and raw, feminine defiance.

April 8, 1994 · DGC

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Live Through This is the sound of a beautiful disaster, a record that balances on the razor's edge between radio-ready pop sensibilities and the absolute carnage of the 1990s underground. It feels like a velvet glove hiding a fist of glass. The guitars are thick and saturated, providing a wall of sound that supports Courtney Love's vocal performance, which oscillates between a vulnerable, childlike whisper and a terrifying, cathartic howl. It is an album that demands to be heard at high volume, yet it contains moments of such startling intimacy that it feels like eavesdropping on a private breakdown.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
02
Miss World
3:00
03
Plump
2:34
04
Asking for It
3:29
05
Jennifer’s Body
3:41
06
Doll Parts
3:33
07
Credit in the Straight World
3:11
08
Softer, Softest
3:28
09
She Walks on Me
3:24
10
I Think That I Would Die
3:36
11
Gutless
2:15
12
Olympia
2:42
Moments Worth Listening For
The transition from the whispered, breathy verses to the explosive, throat-shredding chorus of Violet.
The fragile acoustic opening of Doll Parts that slowly builds into a desperate, distorted anthem of longing.
The feedback-drenched bridge in She Walks on Me where the bassline drives through a wall of distorted guitars.
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How does Live Through This sound next to the rest of Hole's catalogue?

Raw+2.0σ

The vocals lean far further into raw than the rest of the catalogue.

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