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Pretty on the Inside is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on September 17, 1991, in the United States on Caroline Records.Produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, and Gumball frontman Don Fleming, the album was Hole's first major label release after the band's formation in 1989 by vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric ...
"Garbadge Man" was Hole's first song to receive a music video, and the only video recorded for Pretty on the Inside, even though it was not released as a single. Directed by an Kevin Kerslake, [ 8 ] the video is extremely abstract, with no definitive visual characteristics other than major use of contrast and light.
Pretty on the Inside was a critical success, [3] especially in the United Kingdom, where the album's lead single, "Teenage Whore", peaked at number 1 in the UK Indie Chart. [4] Following negotiations with a number of major labels, Hole signed a seven-album contract with DGC Records in 1992. [5] Due to creative differences, Emery and Rue left ...
Love finished writing "Violet" at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit in 1991. Courtney Love began writing "Violet" in mid-1991, during a Hole tour before the release of the band's debut album, Pretty on the Inside; "Violet" lyrics appear on a flyer designed by Love to advertise a show at Jabberjaw, a rock club in Los Angeles, on August 7, 1991; [7] she stated that she partly wrote the song at ...
Hole intended for the record to diverge significantly from their previous noise and grunge-influenced sound as featured on Pretty on the Inside (1991) and Live Through This (1994). The band hired producer Michael Beinhorn to record Celebrity Skin over a nine-month period that included sessions in Los Angeles, New York City, and London.
[44] Alternate mixes of the song that later were released as B-sides included even more satirical lyrics, such as "we took punk rock, and we got a grade." [44] In summarizing the record's themes, Spin noted: Live Through This is both a scruffier and more commercial record than Pretty on the Inside. The angsty rants of yore remain, but they're ...
Harry Styles dropped a music video for his "Harry's House" hit "Satellite" on May 3. Here's what the lyrics behind the bop might mean.
The First Session is an EP by American alternative rock band Hole, released on August 26, 1997, on Sympathy for the Record Industry.The EP features the entire recording of the band's first studio session on March 17, 1990, and also a twenty-page booklet focusing on the band's early career prior to the release of their debut studio album, Pretty on the Inside (1991).