You know, I haven't posted much Hole on here.
And the only other time I posted Hole, I remarked that I had not posted more Hole.
Well, as part of my 1000 albums in a year project, I listened to their 1994 ill-timed breakthrough Live Through This. I say ill-timed because it was released less than a week after Kurt Cobain a.k.a. Courtney Love's husband killed himself.
No, I don't think Courtney did it.
Anyway this song - reportedly about Love's pre-Cobain relationship with Billy Corgan - opens the album. It is dark and bombastic and beautiful.
This song was one of the first written for the album, and the band first started performing in live in 1991, a full three years before its official release. I thought about sharing the 1991 Peel Session recording of this song, but I felt this 1993 live version better captured the raw energy of this song.
I actually saw Hole while they were touring in support of this album.
July 26, 1995, Lollapalooza, Hartford, CT.
I desperately looked for video from that performance (Courtney was CLEARLY grieving hard, so I remember the show fondly), but could not find it. I did find Lollapalooza footage from three days later..... and yeah, it absolutely kicked ass.
This song followed their cover of "Pennyroyal Tea" during the set, so if you want to rewind a bit to hear that, be my guest.
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