Monday, October 14, 2024

Celebrity skin (Hole) (LP 2768)

Hole  Celebrity Skin (CD, DGC Records, 1998) *** 

GenreRock 

Places I remember: Hope collection

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Celebrity Skin

Gear costume: Dying

Active compensatory factors: Third album by this grunge band fronted by Courtney Love, and it's a more mature sound - less grunge. Ironically, that's possibly the influence of Billy Corgan (main man of prog band Smashing Pumpkins) who is heavily involved a number of the songs (Love writes all the lyrics though).

It's all okay but it would have been a five-star effort if it had all had the quality of the opening song - the title track. The rest is good, but nothing spectacular.

Courtney Love has a good voice for alt-rock and Hole has certainly been a very successful band, this album was nominated for some Grammy Awards.

It's always hard to separate the tabloid Courtney from the rock star Courtney. Is she a nice person? Discuss.

Where do they all belong? I have no great desire to collect other albums by Hole.

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