HOLE Live Through This Limited Edition Purple Vinyl National Record Day SEALED

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Hole "Live Through This" Limited Edition Purple Vinyl National Record Store Day - England. Pressed in Germany by Optimal Media. New, sealed, no rips to shrink wrap, no bumped corners. LP remains unopened and slip-case is crease-free. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been played. Officially licensed, authentic - see image of actual item you will receive. In stock - Ships Same Day From USA so you have it in a few days, not weeks!

Live Through This is the second studio album by Hole, the band led by Courtney Love. Considered a contemporary classic, this record was included in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Features production by Sean Slade and

Paul Q Kolderie with mixing by Scott Litt and J Mascis. Live Through This was Hole's only album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff before her death in June 1994. Recorded in October 1993, the album marked a divergence from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure. The album's lyrics and packaging reflect Love's preoccupation with beauty, and it's songs contain

repeated motifs of milk, motherhood, anti-elitism, and violence against

women.

Track Listing:

Side 1:

Violet

Miss World

Plump

Asking for It

Jennifer's Body

Doll Parts

Side 2:

Credit in the Straight World

Softer, Softest

She Walks on Me

I Think That I Would Die

Gutless

Rock Star

Devastating loss shadowed the release of Hole's second album in 1994. It came out four days after singer Courtney Love's husband Kurt Cobain was found dead at their home in Seattle and two months prior to the death of Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff. The release was a major step up from Hole's debut, embracing a fuller rock sound, partly down to the upgrade in terms of where they recorded. As opposed to a small studio in Hollywood,they went to the same Atlanta, Georgia complex that Smashing Pumpkins used to record Siamese Dream. The thing that's helped make this album timeless is not just the sound but the perspective of righteous female rage - check the propulsive 'Credit In The Straight World' or the loud/quiet rollercoaster4 'Violet', both as thrilling as a roller skate ride down a steep hill, for further proof. Love told press at the time of release she felt that there was a certain female point of view that's never been given space and she took ownership of that with so much

style and poignance, with the lyrics to 'Asking For It' a particularly direct example: "Was she asking for it? / Was she asking nice? / Did she ask you for it? / Did she ask you twice?" However, while it coincided with the rise of riot grrrl and fed off much of the same energy, it somehow stands apart from that movement, carving out a unique space for itself that was only further enhanced by their incendiary live

performances of the time.

How Hole Had Their Cake And Ate It Too With ‘Live Through This’

Released just a week after Kurt Cobain’s death, Hole’s ‘Live Through This’ saw Courtney Love bare her soul on an alt.rock classic that still surprises. Ever since Hole unleashed their alt.rock opus, Live Through This, on April 12, 1994, the music-consuming public and press has played a hypothetical game of “What if?” What if it didn’t debut just seven days after the culture-shattering death of Kurt Cobain? What if frontwoman Courtney Love wasn’t the target of both the press and Cobain conspiracists? What if Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff hadn’t died just two months after the album’s release? Despite the odds stacked against it, however, Live Through This still stands as one of the most iconic alt.rock albums of the 90s.