Hole-Celebrity_Skin-(DGCD-25164)-CD-FLAC-1998-MUNDANE

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    │██ Artist  : Hole
     ██ Album   : Celebrity Skin
     ██ Year    : 1998
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    │██ Genre   : Grunge             Quality  : 104kbps avg/441kHz/2 channels
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    :██ Cat. Nr : DGCD-25164         Label    : Geffen Records
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    │▓█ Release date: 2020-01-24         Retail date: 1998-09-08
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      1.    Celebrity Skin                                        2:42  ██
      2.    Awful                                                 3:16  ██
      3.    Hit So Hard                                           4:00  ██
      4.    Malibu                                                3:50  ██
      5.    Reasons To Be Beautiful                               5:19  ██
      6.    Dying                                                 3:44  ██
      7.    Use Once & Destroy                                    5:04  ██
      8.    Northern Star                                         4:58  ██
      9.    Boys On The Radio                                     5:09  ██
      10.   Heaven Tonight                                        3:31  ██
      11.   Playing Your Song                                     3:21  ██
      12.   Petals                                                5:29  ██
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      ██                                                      ░▄
      ██│ When Lynn Hirschberg profiled grungeÆs king and queen for Vanity Fair
      ██│ in 1992, she kept circling back to one idea: that Courtney Love,
      ██│ hellbent on boosting her star, had set out to snare a big celebrity.
      ██│ ôShe definitely relishes her position as Mrs. Kurt Cobain,ö she
      ██│ declared. ôIt was one of her goals, not something she left up to
      ██│ fate.ö Instead, Hirschberg suggested, Love planned, she plotted, she
      ██│ pestered and pursued. She even prayed. ôCourtney chanted for the
      ██│ coolest guy in rock ænÆ roll û which, to her mind, was Kurt û to be
      ██│ her boyfriend,ö claimed a source, setting Love up as a scheming witch
      ██│ reciting an incantation.
      ██│
      ██│ By detailing LoveÆs slumped acting career, her initial ambivalence
      ██│ towards punk and her hunger for fame, Hirschberg fleshed out a
      ██│ caricature that dogged her for decades: the conniving,
      ██│ bandwagon-jumping opportunist. The music press could be equally
      ██│ unflattering. A month before the Vanity Fair piece, NMEÆs on-the-road
      ██│ feature with Nirvana labelled her a ôGrade-A pain in the arseö. Love
      ██│ would argue that her marriage, far from being a career boon, had been
      ██│ detrimental: people saw her as wife first, artist second, or cast her
      ██│ as grungeÆs shrewish Lady Macbeth. They punished her because she was a
      ██│ woman whoÆd gotten what she wanted, and as she told Caitlin Moran,
      ██│ they thought the worst of her: ôæSheÆs just a money-grabber
      ██│ gold-digger bitch whore slut.Æö Some refused to budge from that
      ██│ position, ignoring the sludgy violent shock of HoleÆs 1991 debut
      ██│ Pretty On The Inside, or crediting the perfect alchemy of pain, anger
      ██│ and hurricane-force power on 1994Æs Live Through This to her husband.
      ██│ After CobainÆs suicide they doubled down, blaming her for being a
      ██│ destructive force or, risibly, the mastermind of a murder conspiracy.
      ██│
      ██│ Hole have sounded angrier, rawer and more vital than they do on 1998Æs
      ██│ Celebrity Skin, and theyÆve made albums both more incendiary and more
      ██│ important. But thereÆs something about its sleek shininess that feels
      ██│ magnificently defiant, like someone raising a middle finger clad in
      ██│ swanky velvet gloves. For years, dullards had insisted Love was a
      ██│ fame-chasing phoney. Why bother proving them wrong when you could have
      ██│ so much more fun seemingly proving them right? Celebrity Skin is so
      ██│ unashamedly populist it feels like an act of gleeful provocation. ItÆs
      ██│ selling out and sacrilege as insurrection. ItÆs the band who released
      ██│ æRetard GirlÆ and æTeenage WhoreÆ making an album dominated by what
      ██│ Love called the ôinternal AM pop radio in my heartö. ItÆs mainstream
      ██│ gloss weaponised into one glorious fuck-you. When Melody MakerÆs
      ██│ Everett True told Love of his dislike for the albumÆs smooth AOR
      ██│ influences, Love was unrepentant. ôIÆm not going to be held back by
      ██│ bad punk training,ö she insisted.
      ██│
      ██│ And so Celebrity SkinÆs sheen is so hopped up on power and polish itÆs
      ██│ practically begging would-be critics to take a pop. The title track is
      ██│ a brilliantly trashy blitz of noise, its riffs filthy with grime and
      ██│ glitter, a punk stomp turned into a sordid burlesque. But much of its
      ██│ brilliance lies in how knowing it is; the way Love hams it up like a
      ██│ pro-wrestling heel, winking hard and pushing her enemiesÆ buttons.
      ██│ ThereÆs something deliciously goading about Love, so often accused of
      ██│ being a callous, fame-chasing horror (and now a Versace-wearing film
      ██│ star after 1996Æs The People vs Larry Flynt), singing about soiled
      ██│ glamour and fameÆs toxic fakery. Every pose she strikes û the
      ██│ desperate wannabe, the bitter star, the leading lady who ôobliterated
      ██│ everything she kissedö û feels like a grotesque reflection of every
      ██│ wicked caricature sheÆs been cast as as, as if sheÆs performing inside
      ██│ a funfair house of mirrors. In the opening lines, sneered over that
      ██│ Earth-splintering crunch of guitars, she sings as a
      ██│ monster-made-flesh: ôOh make me over, IÆm all I wanna be/ A walking
      ██│ study in demonology.ö And later, on the dangerously sweet post-chorus,
      ██│ she crows like Norma Desmond reborn as one of the Furies: ôIÆm glad I
      ██│ came here with your pound of flesh.ö
      ██│
      ██│ Coveting mainstream success had been a blasphemous idea in SeattleÆs
      ██│ underground, but Love was so keen on smoothing HoleÆs edges she even
      ██│ considered consulting Diane Warren, author of AerosmithÆs sappy
      ██│ megahit æI DonÆt Want To Miss A ThingÆ. Her bandmates vetoed those
      ██│ plans, but gave the album its muscle and sparkle. Eric ErlandsonÆs
      ██│ guitars are pristine and hefty. Melissa Auf der Maur replaced Kristen
      ██│ Pfaff, who died of a heroin overdose two months after Cobain, and her
      ██│ melodic basslines and coolly delivered backing vocals help anchor the
      ██│ record. Billy Corgan, parachuted in when they hit a dead end,
      ██│ undoubtedly helped shape its sound. Making something so slick could
      ██│ get ugly û producer Michael Beinhorn used skullduggery and studio
      ██│ trickery to oust HoleÆs incredible drummer, Patty Schemel û and fans
      ██│ could be sceptical. Yet what some saw as betrayal, Love saw as
      ██│ liberation. As she told True: ôWe have stock, but we also want to be
      ██│ populist.ö
      ██│
      ██│ The results still sound fabulous. æMalibuÆ is a gorgeous, longing
      ██│ swirl of Californian dreams, sighing melodies and burnt-sunset
      ██│ acoustic guitars. ôHelp me please/ Burn the sorrow from your eyes,ö
      ██│ pleads Love, her voice sweeter than its customary snarl, as she
      ██│ summons hordes of angels to save a lover. æHit So HardÆ is such a
      ██│ starry-eyed rush of dreamy, glimmering chords it makes you feel
      ██│ punchdrunk, while the galloping pop-rush of æHeaven TonightÆ scarcely
      ██│ sounds less indebted to Fleetwood Mac than their cover of æGold Dust
      ██│ WomanÆ. If the latterÆs chiming guitars werenÆt indicative enough of
      ██│ change, its backstory was. HirschbergÆs allegation that Love used
      ██│ heroin while pregnant resulted in her and Cobain temporarily losing
      ██│ custody of their daughter, Frances Bean. The mess spilled into Live
      ██│ Through This, where she sent herself up as the mother from hell on
      ██│ æPlumpÆ and howled for her missing daughter on æI Think That I Would
      ██│ DieÆ. æHeaven TonightÆ isnÆt about Frances, but it was written for her
      ██│ û a song to make her smile, rather than a document of misery.
      ██│
      ██│ But while Celebrity Skin is prettier on the outside, its gloss
      ██│ shouldnÆt be mistaken for froth. CobainÆs death, the subsequent media
      ██│ circus and the turbulent Live Through This tour all took their toll,
      ██│ and Erlandson told Rolling Stone that other losses had weighed on them
      ██│ too, including Pfaff, Jeff Buckley, and both his and Auf der MaurÆs
      ██│ fathers. That grief inspired its frequent references to drowning, both
      ██│ lyrically and in its packaging (among other allusions, the back cover
      ██│ repurposed Paul Albert SteckÆs painting Ophelia Drowning).
      ██│
      ██│ ThereÆs another motif which feels equally pertinent: confectionery.
      ██│ ôHe tastes like candy, heÆs so beautiful.ö ôHeÆs so cold, give him a
      ██│ candy-coat.ö ôHeÆs so candy, my downfall.ö ôTheir innocence tastes
      ██│ like candy.ö Candy, delicious but health-damaging, is a fitting theme
      ██│ for the way Celebrity SkinÆs songs can sometimes slip down like
      ██│ sugared pills, their sweet sounds masking bitter feelings. æMalibuÆ,
      ██│ for all its lushness, is a doomed rescue mission for a lost cause û
      ██│ and towards the end, thereÆs a moment when the fantasy slips away and
      ██│ those exquisite melodies get a little choppy, with LoveÆs voice
      ██│ fraying and knotting. ôI knew love would tear you apart,ö she spits,
      ██│ choking on ugly truths she canÆt swallow down any longer.
      ██│
      ██│ ôMy sweet tooth has burned a hole,ö she admits on æHit So HardÆ, her
      ██│ desire turning corrosive û and while its chorus is about a powerful
      ██│ orgasm, you canÆt hear her coo ôHe hit so hard/ I saw starsö and not
      ██│ think of æHe Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)Æ, which Hole covered
      ██│ several times. Even the child-friendly æHeaven TonightÆ is supposedly
      ██│ about a girl killed in a car crash en route to meeting her boyfriend.
      ██│ And then thereÆs æAwfulÆ, a fiendishly catchy Trojan horse which uses
      ██│ its sugary, soda-pop melody to coat a scathing takedown of
      ██│ music-industry sexism. LoveÆs disarming cherry-pie yelp details how
      ██│ young women are screwed in all kinds of ways for all kinds of profit:
      ██│ ôThey know how to break all the girls like you/ And they rob the souls
      ██│ of the girls like you.ö
      ██│
      ██│ It often feels as if Hole, rather than being in thrall to these
      ██│ brighter sounds, are bending them to their will. æBoys On The RadioÆ
      ██│ (originally called æSugar ComaÆ) is jangling and bittersweet, but its
      ██│ hazy guitar-pop belies a sadder story. ItÆs about a girl convinced her
      ██│ dead heroes are singing just to her, their words half soothing
      ██│ lullabies, half siren calls (ôWhen the water is too deep/ You can
      ██│ close your eyes and really sleepö). æDyingÆ is dark, brittle and
      ██│ uncomfortably intense, its murky stormy tension growing louder but
      ██│ never fully breaking. ôI need to be under your skin,ö she pleads, the
      ██│ desperation in her voice making longing sound like a threat.
      ██│
      ██│ Its politics can also be slippery. Love was renowned as a firebrand
      ██│ punk feminist, but was critical of any movement she felt clung too
      ██│ dogmatically to its ideals: she clashed with the riot grrrls and
      ██│ cursed OlympiaÆs underground scene. ôItÆs not about talent, itÆs about
      ██│ purity,ö she declared. ôItÆs about having a manifesto, and itÆs
      ██│ bullshit.ö ItÆs an unsurprising stance given Celebrity SkinÆs
      ██│ accessibility, but occasionally she still seems sympathetic to the
      ██│ underground as it was pillaged, packaged and sold: thereÆs cynicism on
      ██│ æAwfulÆ (ôIt was punk/ It was perfect now itÆs awfulö), but also
      ██│ belief in countercultural power (ôIf the world is so wrong/ You can
      ██│ break them all with one songö).
      ██│
      ██│ On æPlaying Your SongÆ, an assault of scuzzy guitars and snarling
      ██│ vocals, her rage spills in every direction. ThereÆs anger for those
      ██│ responsible for cheapening righteous fury, and disdain for the
      ██│ charlatans whoÆve reduced once-incredible sounds to hollow ersatz
      ██│ imitations. But thereÆs also contempt for those who lapped up the
      ██│ punk-purist snake oil: she reserves most of her jabs for a husk whoÆs
      ██│ become so cynical they canÆt enjoy anything. ôHey you, donÆt take it
      ██│ out on me,ö she snaps. ôYouÆre bored of everything/ You burned right
      ██│ out.ö Autobiographical readings can be too easy, but itÆs hard not to
      ██│ think of Cobain and his uneasiness with NirvanaÆs success. One couplet
      ██│ seemingly harks back to 1994, when she told fans the Neil
      ██│ Young-referencing sign-off in his suicide note (ôitÆs better to burn
      ██│ out than fade awayö) was a ôfucking lieö: ôI had to tell them you were
      ██│ gone/ I had to tell them you were wrong.ö ItÆs an old ghost that
      ██│ possibly haunts the swampy, guttural racket of æReasons To Be
      ██│ BeautifulÆ too, in which Love offers another solution: ôWhen the fire
      ██│ goes out you better learn to fake/ ItÆs better to rise than fade
      ██│ away.ö
      ██│
      ██│ Less opaque are the haunting strings and rough acoustic guitars of the
      ██│ brittle æNorthern StarÆ, a song so unvarnished it sticks out like a
      ██│ sore thumb. It starts with Love spilling her guts mid-sentence, as if
      ██│ sheÆs been repeating this same loop of anguish for hours, days,
      ██│ months, years: ôAnd I cry and no-one can hear.ö When she explodes, her
      ██│ howling, 30-fags-a-day rasp is at its most devastating: ôNo
      ██│ loneliness, no misery is worth you.ö ItÆs a more plaintive cry of
      ██│ despair following the menacing industrial throb of æUse Once And
      ██│ DestroyÆ, which starts with dangerous electronic surges and builds to
      ██│ a violent blowout. Its title nods to both a lyric from NirvanaÆs
      ██│ æRadio Friendly Unit ShifterÆ and the instructions printed on
      ██│ hypodermic needles. As in æMalibuÆ, Love follows someone into the
      ██│ heart of darkness to save them from their worst impulses, but finds
      ██│ nothing but pain and dirt.
      ██│
      ██│ The bruised, beautiful gloom of æPetalsÆ, then, makes for a fitting
      ██│ end, a twisted game of he-loves-me, he-loves-me-not that resembles an
      ██│ act of torture. ôTear the petals off of you/ And make you tell the
      ██│ truth,ö sings Love darkly, finding more foul secrets in pretty things.
      ██│ ôSheÆs too pure for this world,ö she insists later. ôThis world is a
      ██│ whore.ö The sweetness never lasts: pretty flowers torn to shreds,
      ██│ purity stained by ugliness, innocence defiled and corrupted. Like much
      ██│ of Celebrity Skin, itÆs as sinister as it is sumptuous; perfumed
      ██│ honeysuckles full of deadly poison.
      ██│
      ██│ HoleÆs own problems were becoming equally toxic. They went on tour in
      ██│ 1999 with Marilyn Manson, but quit after being booed offstage by his
      ██│ fans. Schemel was forced out, and Auf Der Maur left. Their label,
      ██│ Geffen, was acquired by Universal, and sued Love for failing to
      ██│ furnish them with five promised albums; she countersued and alleged
      ██│ they failed to properly promote Celebrity Skin. It was supposed to
      ██│ take them to a new level, but four years later theyÆd broken up.
      ██│
      ██│ In the documentary Hit So Hard, Erlandson reflects on the cost of
      ██│ ditching Schemel at BeinhornÆs behest: ôWe lost some of the soul à
      ██│ What the fuck were we thinking?ö You could ask the same question about
      ██│ Celebrity Skin as a whole: they sacrificed old friends, old sounds and
      ██│ old ideals, and it can be tempting, now, to half-wish Hole hadnÆt gone
      ██│ for broke and ended up so broken. But even if HoleÆs Faustian pact
      ██│ didnÆt deliver the mainstream-conquering success they craved, thereÆs
      ██│ something to be said for the fact they tried to beat the devil at his
      ██│ own game to begin with. ôEveryone says theyÆre going to subvert the
      ██│ system from the inside and then everyone gets mad because no one ever
      ██│ does it,ö said Love in 1999. Hole didnÆt manage it long-term, either,
      ██│ but they tried their damndest. For those 50-odd minutes, they werenÆt
      ██│ just the band with the most cake; they were able to eat it, too.
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      ██│ URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_(band)
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