Live Through This by Hole

Pros: Pretty frickin' melodic (and occasionally downright pretty) for such aggressive music.
Cons: The question of how much of this album was Courtney vs. how much was Kurt.

It's a reasonably well-documented fact that most if not all artistic people are a few sandwiches short of the old picnic basket, and before Amy Winehouse took over as music's #1 female nutjob, there was Courtney Love. Over the past two decades, ...

Pros: Pure emotion. Basic, yet well played music.
Cons: Some people just will not give this album a chance.

First, I want to get this out of the way. I bought this album because I wanted to, not because I thought a friend might like it for a present, or some other alternate reason that most people who own this album make up. That’s right, I enjoyed this ...

Pros: Great music...loud and angry
Cons: Two stinkers, and too short

Hole began as innocently as most other punk/rock/grunge bands in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The difference with this band was that a) they were mostly women and b) the lead singer/guitarist was the soon-to-be infamous Courtney Love. Love ...

Pros: Good lyrics that let Courtney express her understandable rage.
Cons: A couple generic hardcore punk numbers.

(Note: This review is part of the "Chicks Who Rock Write-Off" hosted by Dustygold and Kristinafh)

Courtney Love is a figure that the music press loves to hate. Like Fred Durst she has developed a reputation as a rather obnoxious pain in the...

Pros: Almost definitive Hole, raw, angry.
Cons: "Rockstar"

Live Through This might be, to me, one of the weirdest albums I've experienced. When I first sampled Hole's music (in an attempt to further my rock music knowledge - my altering summer of 2004), two were from this album, and I didn't like either. Oddly ...

Pros: Some catchy songs, some well written lyrics for her genre of music
Cons: Songs a little repetitious, not a long album (short songs, lyrics are a little lacking)

Where has all the Grunge Music gone? Well if you have been missing your daily dose of grunge music, then Hole's cd entitled "Live through this" will definitely satisfy your hunger for Grunge music. Although many people have speculated that the majority...

Pros: must have for anyone sick of the fascism of the teenybopper culture
Cons: repeats milk, roses, and baby too much

Had I been Courtney Love, I would've regretted ever marrying Kurt Cobain. Jesus. First he dies, then she gets blamed for his death, then she gets blamed for copying his style. And to top it all off, the press is littered with rumors that she did heroin...

Pros: Very REAL tunes with no sugar coating..
Cons: may be too much for some people.. explicit lyrics

This is my favorite Hole CD out there. The way that she screams out the lyrics to the songs on this one makes me realize who she is. She's all of us. Courtney may be a rock star (and a damn good one) but she's a person too, and damn it, she won't let you...

Pros: Everything
Cons: It’s too short

This album was recorded and written before Kurt died (and some songs (Violet, Doll Parts) were written before she even met Kurt) so I doubt that he wrote it. The only People that think he did are anti-love pro-Kurt “you killed Kurt” fans that can’t admit...

Pros: Best view of feminine self-loathing since Babes In Toyland's Fontanelle.
Cons: Hmmm, can't think of any.

I'm sure there have been enough reviews of this record by teenage girls who claim Courtney Love as their muse and inspiration to pick up a guitar. I could regurgitate all that and mean it, yes, but I won't.

Live Through This is a...

Pros: Cool image, sound, music, lyrics
Cons: ill-timed release

Courtney certainly did leave her mark on the world as Miss World with Live Through This. Many have accused her of being carried along by the fame of her deceased husband, Kurt Cobain, who ironically died just before this album was released. This is not...

Pros: beautiful, witty, abstract lyrics, interesting take on femaleness and soceity, raging vocals, catchy songs, the whole thing has feeling to it
Cons: nothing. a couple of the tracks are weaker than the rest, but still don't warrant hitting the "skip" button on the CD player

I remember buying this CD in 1994 after seeing a snippet of the recording process on MTV news. Of course, by that time, Kurt Cobain had killed himself and so his wife Courtney Love was all over the damn channel anyway. But in this clip, maybe a...

Pros: Great lyrics, great songs, great texture
Cons: not the best musicianship

I was not so long ago a person who looked down on this era's popular stars. I thought--and still think--that Kurt Cobain was a flaming idiot. Suicide is a tragic thing, but it does not stop someone from being a flaming idiot, I'm sorry to say. So as a...

Pros: Surprisingly good
Cons: The first and only good Hole record

Irony strikes in very bitter ways, or at very clever times, depending on one's perspective, hence the abuser or the abusee. Hole's breakthrough album, Live Through This, was released barely a week after singer/guitarist Courtney Love's husband, Kurt...

Pros: courtneys voice and edgy music
Cons: some songs seem short

This album is my most favourite album they have ever done. This is by far the strongest album they've done. Although a lot of poeple say they don't like Courtney Love and people blame her for kurt Cobain's death, you should listen to the music because...