Live Through This (180g Vinyl) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Tracklist
A1        Violet
A2        Miss World
A3        Plump
A4        Asking For It
A5        Jennifers Body
A6        Doll Parts
B7        Credit In The Straight World
Written-By – Stuart Moxham
B8        Softer, Softest
B9        She Walks On Me
B10        I Think That I Would Die
B11        Gutless
B12        Rock Star

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Geffen Records
Copyright © – Geffen Records
Mixed At – Record One, Los Angeles
Mixed At – Bad Animals
Mixed At – Sear Sound
Recorded At – Triclops Recording
Mastered At – Gateway Mastering
Lacquer Cut At – Capitol Mastering
Pressed By – Record Industry – 16065
Published By – Mother May I Music
Published By – Rough Trade Music
Record Company – Universal International Music B.V.
A&R – Mark Kates
Bass, Piano, Backing Vocals – Kristen Pfaff
Drums – Patty Schemel
Guitar – Eric Erlandson
Management – Gold Mountain Entertainment
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Mixed By – J Mascis (tracks: B11), Scott Litt (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A5, B8)
Photography By [Back Photo Of Courtney] – Frank Rodriguez (4)
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Ellen Von Unwerth
Producer, Engineer – Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade
Songwriter – Hole (2) (tracks: A1 to A6, B8 to B12), K. Bjelland* (tracks: B10)
Vocals [Additional Vocals] – Dana Kletter
Vocals, Guitar – Courtney Love
Made in Holland printed on sleeve. Made in the Netherlands sticker on shrink.
Some copies came with a Back To Black voucher to download the mp3 version of this album (Live Through This).
Track numbering is listed sequentially on side labels.

Tracks A1, A2, A4, A5 and B8 mixed at Record One, Los Angeles and Bad Animals, Seattle.
Track B11 mixed at Sear Sound, NYC.
Recorded at Triclops Studios, Atlanta, CA.

All songs published by Mother May I Music BMI except "Credit In The Straight World" [...] Published by Rough Trade Music

℗ 1994 © 2016 Geffen Records.
Universal International Music B.V. Gerrit Van Der Veenlaan 4, 3743 Dn, Baarn, Netherlands.
Made in Holland. BIEM/SDRM.

Hole: Courtney Love (vocals, guitar); Eric Erlandson (guitar); Kristen Pfaff (piano, bass, background vocals); Patty Schemel (drums). Additional personnel: Dana Kletter (vocals). Recorded at Triclops Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. LIVE THROUGH THIS would have been an important record even without the heartbreaking overtones surrounding Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain and their daughter Frances Bean. In light of those events, however, there is a poignant resonance to Hole's songs that amplifies, and in some cases transcends their original meaning. With her husky growl and simmering sing-song delivery, Courtney Love at times suggests a female Johnny Rotten. Sugar and spice and all things nice she is not, if a song like "Doll Parts" is any indication ("Someday you will ache like I ache"). She sounds like someone who was denied a real childhood, and life's experiences seemed to have curdled inside of her. The soft-hard-soft-hard program of each song reflects a conflict between her suppressed feminine yearnings and her own world-weary, tough-gal persona. Love's bitter, over-the-top emotional recollections give LIVE THROUGH THIS much of its bite, while Hole's refined, kick-ass arrangements tend to humanize, and occasionally soften Love's wellsprings of resentment. In contrast to the relentless punk rock of PRETTY ON THE INSIDE, LIVE THROUGH THIS is a more polished alternative production, although tunes like "Gutless" are pure Sex Pistols rant and raveup ("All my friends are embryonic, all my friends are dead and gone/All my friends are microscopic, all my friends wake up alone...Sleep with me wake up alive...I don't really miss God, but I sure miss Santa Claus"). Her sensuality and sexual ambivalence are front and center on LIVE THROUGH THIS. "You should learn how to say no," she yowls on "Violet." ("When they get what they want, they never want it again...Go on take everything, take everything, I want you to." Not exactly "The Chapel Of Love.") Every inch the failed romantic and social outcast, on songs like "Asking For It" and "Rock Star" Love compulsively peels away at her own skin until a throbbing void of bitterness is all that remains. Look away if you can't take the truth or fathom the enigmatic lyrics, but you won't be able to ignore LIVE THROUGH THIS.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: ROCK
• RSD Date: n/a
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 07/29/2016