Celebrity Skin
| Hole
Celebrity Skin
Celebrity Skin is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on September 8, 1998 on Geffen Records and one day later in the United States on DGC Records. It was the last album released by the band before their dissolution in 2002. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
[Love] just knows exactly the kind of rock star she wants to be, and is it.
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The Quietus
Hole’s third album was staggeringly sleek and shiny compared to what had come before. But . . . there was something defiant about its power and polish.
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SPIN
The challenge for Celebrity Skin is whether it can be heard above the din, the life stories and public displays of affliction. But like all great records, it’s at its best when it attempts the impossible task of swallowing all that noise.
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Billboard
Glistening Pop-Rock Tribute to LA.
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A.V. Club Music
Love her or hate her, she knows how to earn a listener's attention.
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Stereogum
With Celebrity Skin Hole did the only thing they could do: lean into the void and laugh.
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New Yorker
Courtney Love’s Twenty-Year-Old Opus.
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All Music
An album that sounds like an arena rock monster, but the hooks sink only halfway in, so it doesn't have much impact.
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Sputnik Music
Good.
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The Guardian
For all the slickness of Michael Beinhorn’s production and the big-budget videos that accompanied its singles, the songs remain raw and cynical, as wary and worn as they are defiant.
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Drowned in Sound
It's a weak record full of empty music.
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Popstache
It has a fresh rawness that no one else was producing at the time. Love and her band found a way to take some pretty sordid subject matter and generate an autobiographical, dynamic album.
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Albumism
She is an original, unvarnished and unafraid, and she encourages her listeners to be too
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Sputnik Music
Superb.
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Entertainment Weekly
Celebrity Skin doesn’t shed much of anything. It’s the music business’ take on the current climate of celebrity makeover: aural plastic surgery.
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NME
While ‘Pretty On The Inside’ is so disturbingly, arrestingly honest, there’s a different type of bravery behind ‘Celebrity Skin’.
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People
Love crams these songs with imagery of death and anguish.
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Youth Journalism
Worth the wait.
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ET Canada
Alt-Rock Triumph.
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Inside Pulse
Hole’s music stands up and hopefully that means there will be a time when her music can be recognized outside of the tabloid points that it is always referenced with.
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Vintage Stars
In her own celebrity skin, Love has demonstrated that she can play the game and win, but Celebrity Skin reveals just how high a price she’s paid.
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Independent
Courtney Love and co have delivered in style on their third album, which is a lot more varied than the platinum Live Through This.
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