This article is about the 1994 Hole album. For the television show, see Live Through This (TV series). For the 2008 book, see Live Through This (book).
Live Through This
Studio album by
Hole
Released
April 12, 1994 (1994-04-12)
Recorded
October 8–31, 1993
Studio
Triclops Sound (Marietta, Georgia)
Genre
Alternative rock[1][2]
grunge[1][2]
punk rock[3]
Length
38:16
Label
DGC
Producer
Paul Q. Kolderie
Sean Slade
Hole chronology
Pretty on the Inside (1991)
Live Through This (1994)
Ask for It (1995)
Singles from Live Through This
"Miss World" Released: March 28, 1994
"Doll Parts" Released: November 15, 1994
"Violet" Released: February 8, 1995
"Softer, Softest" Released: December 12, 1995
Live Through This is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Hole, released on April 12, 1994, by DGC Records. Recorded in late 1993, it departed from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure.[4] Frontwoman Courtney Love said that she wanted the record to be "shocking to the people who think that we don't have a soft edge", but maintain a harsh sensibility. The album was produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie and mixed by Scott Litt and J Mascis. The lyrics and packaging reflect Love's thematic preoccupations with beauty, and motifs of milk, motherhood, anti-elitism, and violence against women, while Love derived the album title from a quote in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Live Through This was met with critical acclaim, and charted in nine countries before going multi-platinum in the US in December 1994. Despite this, it was also the subject of some public discussion regarding unsubstantiated rumors that Love's husband, Kurt Cobain—who died by suicide one week before the album's release—helped ghostwrite the album. This claim has been disputed by the band members, producers, as well as music biographers, though the band confirmed that Cobain sang additional backing vocals on two tracks during a visit to the studio. It was also the only Hole album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff, and the final album to be released during her lifetime, as she died two months after the album's release.
In critical circles, Live Through This is considered a contemporary classic,[5] and was included in Rolling Stone's 2020 updated list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time at number 106.[6] It has also been featured on the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and on NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, where it ranked at the 84. As of 2010, it has sold over 1.6 million copies in the US.[7]
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^"ALLIANCE Hole - Live Through This | Music & Arts". www.musicarts.com. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
^Cashmere, Paul (February 7, 2010). "Courtney Love To Flash Her Hole At SXSW". Undercover News. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
^"500 Greatest Albums". Rolling Stone. May 31, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
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