Live Through This
| Hole
Live Through This
Live Through This is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released by DGC Records on April 12, 1994. Recorded in late 1993, it marked a divergence from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure. Frontwoman Courtney Love commented in 1993 that she wanted the record to be "shocking to the people who think that we don't have a soft edge," though still maintain a harsh sensibility. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Love projected a high femme presence, all red lipstick and messy blonde hair like a bedraggled Marilyn Monroe, while commandeering her post at the microphone with masculine bravado.
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Rolling Stone
Live Through This is the work of a woman who measured the depth of her abyss by taking the plunge — and is still struggling for daylight.
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Billboard
It’s a modern classic, regardless of what’s thought of Love now.
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Loudwire
Live Through This stands as one of the '90s great albums and a key turning point in Hole's history in establishing their own identity.
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SPIN
It’s poignant, it’s absurd, and it’s about Love piping up for girls with bad reputations.
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Classic Rock Review
Most critics consider Live Through This to be the finest output of Hole’s career.
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The Quietus
This record is Hole's diamanté-adorned, cracked plastic crown-ing glory.
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Consequence of Sound
Live Through This has some beautiful melodies and great hooks, but it has that edge that she was all about.
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BBC
Thankfully, with every year that passes, it becomes easier to put the record’s emotional baggage to one side and appraise it on the strength of its songs.
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Vinyl Reviews
Visceral impact.
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Sputnik Music
In my opinion, the closest thing to a female ‘Nevermind’ ever made.
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Albumism
The ability to empathize with a deeply flawed woman has always eluded society, and Love’s legacy is a testament to that. But Hole’s incredible success despite this reality is what makes them—and Live Through This—legendary.
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All Music
A set of gripping hooks and melodies that retain their power even if they follow the predictable grunge pattern.
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Stereogum
She sounded like a mess, but she did it in a way that reminded you that you, too, were a mess . . . And that voice is at its most arresting and transcendent and expressive on Live Through This.
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Puluche
Live Through This is a quintessential grunge album that also crosses over to alternative and punk; it put Hole in the same genre as Nirvana which was Love’s intention.
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Spectrum Culture
This is an intense work, self-flagellating yet unrepentant, and its catharsis is so powerful it preemptively prepared Love to play the material in mourning.
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Flavorwire
Live Through This was one of those albums, and it struck me how perfect it was as a brief collection of songs.
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Drowned in Sound
Live Through This has its cake and eats it, licking its fingers afterwards.
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Contact Music
One of the most important female rock albums of all time.
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Sonic Abuse
A far more balanced and dynamic listening experience than the CD, this is a chance to relive hearing the album for the first time all over again and a most welcome one.
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Gigslutz
‘Live Through This’ still has life in it, and I like to think that a new generation of young women will discover it and love it as much as I did (and do).
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Mini Music Critic
Grunge classic.
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NPR
One of the era's most powerful pop albums and a landmark of female-fronted rock 'n' roll.
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All Reviews
A great rock record.
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WDHIFM
Hole Establish Themselves as a Force on ‘Live Through This’.
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CBC
The album marked a huge moment in grunge music and was perhaps Courtney Love's biggest accomplishment.
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N Plus One
Problematic, unstable, what she did for her disenfranchised fans to help them accept themselves, matters more.
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HD Radio
Hole Establish Themselves as a Force on ‘Live Through This’.
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Medium
The Power of “Live Through This” is Palpable, 25 Years Later.
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