Hole's Live Through ThisCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on? |
Contents
Violet | 1 |
Miss World | 17 |
Asking for It | 37 |
Credit in the Straight World | 57 |
Softer Softest | 75 |
I Think That I Would Die | 93 |
Rock Star | 107 |
Notes | 113 |
Bibliography | 122 |
Also Available in the Series | 128 |