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Artist: HoleEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Music Label: Fontana Geffen
Soundtracks:
- Celebrity Skin
- Awful
- Hit So Hard
- Malibu
- Reasons To Be Beautiful
- Dying
- Use Once And Destroy
- Northern Star
- Boys On The Radio
- Heaven Tonight
- Playing Your Song
- Petals
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Free Music Review: Break Them All With One Song
Hit: 5 Stars
first of all i really cant stand how people diss hole justbecause courtney is not generally likeable or down to earth. get pastthat because hole is one of the best bands in the past 10 years and this album is a great testimony to that fact. celebrity skin starts out spitting venom with the title track, where instead of building herself into a rock monolith, she degrades her own duality and shallowness along burning riffs that make it an instant classic. next is awful, where she pokes fun at the commercialization of music and how music is made to appeal to an individual and then "royalty-rated" and sold out. it also hints at self deprecation. then comes hit so hard, a sonically awesome song either about being beaten up by your lover or as someone else suggested orgasms. either way or both ways, its a perfect song and has some really subtle but mindblowing sexual connotations. the harmonies are incredible. now comes the huge sonic soft rocker, malibu which combines pop and punk into one beautiful song about destruction and trying to salvage yourself (or someone else?) from a terrible situation. it is completely one of a kind and ive never heard anything like it before. i think few bands could pull this song off this well. the climax of the song is amazing by the way. up next is an LA anthem, reasons to be beautiful, this song agonizes over the meaning of beauty and trying to mask the pain and misery with a palette of exterior, probably autobiographical. the sleeper hit of this disc is dying, a quiet and sentimental song probably about being obsessed with your (deceased?) lover to the point of wanting to join he/she in the grave. THE BRIDGE IN THIS SONG IS AMAZING. It goes from quiet and somber to this revelation of being finished, the life is over. Absolute genius songwriting here. Use Once and Destroy is up next and I dont really like this song as much except for the interesting ending where there is a shift in the mentality of the entire song. It's still pretty good though. Northern Star comes up and is obviously referencing her late husband Kurt Cobain. It's incredibly somber telling the story of a lover lost and almost worshipping him as a spiritual entity. There are tinges of anger in it and a the climax comes with an emotional thought that "no misery is worth you." It's very angry and sad but it will make you tear up because there is obviously something very authentic behind it. Boys On the Radio is next and it should definitely be released as a single. It is about how girls listen to the boys on the radio and take everything that they say to heart and completely seriously. It suggests that these girls want to save the rebellious boys from the trials and tribulation of stardom. It's the most beautiful song on the record and touches on something that is rarely used as a subject of rock music. It comes at the subject fiercely and paints these girls as indulgent on the beauty of these men. One could go as far to say that she is talking about girls that are infatuated with pop acts like the backstreet boys. while it could be made into something horrible, it comes off as something magical and incredible and a growing pain of youthfulness. next comes another poppy beauty that seems to discuss going completely kamikaze over someone you love. getting so caught up in the advent of love and happiness that you close off the rest of the world and you are prepared to die just to die and go to heaven together. Very Shakespearean. Next is Playing Your Song, which is a jump from the sonic splendor and upbeatness of Heaven Tonight. This song is fiercy autobiographical. It seems like a manifesto to her late husband. This one is more built on anger. Anger at the record industry (for presumably capitalizing off of Cobain's tragic suicide) esp. "theyve taken it and built a mall", anger at Cobain like "your're drunk on apathy," and anger at fans for turning him into some kind of patron saint because of his suicide. It's high octane grunge and it is one of the best songs of its kind in recent years and evokes some of the acidic courtney of live through this. lastly, a powerful look at getting older and maturing (perhaps as a musician), petals tears away the exterior beauty and basically says that after it inevitably leaves youre left with yourself, lonely. the riffs are atmospheric and haunting and this is a wonderful way to end the album. overall i think that this album is one of the best in recent years and will rise to classic status in years to come. never has such a fluent, varied album come together so well since Nirvana's Nevermind. While it relied on self-deprecating angst, Celebrity Skin relies on bitterly honest obsession. I own 4 copies of CS, if that's indicative of a quality album or my own warped musical taste, you decide. Buy this one.
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