During basic tracks, me and Courtney ended up leaving and going to New York to see Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. I was so drunk that I could not see straight. It was so fucked up. RuPaul was there. And I remember coming back and then having to do more recording and being completely wasted for that. When I got back, I was like, "I gotta pull it together." So that's when I did a bunch of crystal meth. We pretty much finished up our basic tracks and then we were kind of imbibing.
Monday, April 14, 2014
WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL [ ] [ ] IN OLYMPIA: This week's also the 20th anniversary of the release of Hole's Live Through This, an album which absolutely withstands the test of time as a fierce, feminist masterpiece. Spin Magazine (remember them?) has a nice history of its creation, which involved a lot of drugs, and not any of the "Kurt really wrote it" of urban legend. Drummer Patty Schemel:
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My goodness, I love this album. For my money, and I know how controversial this sounds, it's better, more consistent, and cuts deeper than Nevermind. It's a shame that Hole / Courtney Love never really came close to this again, but perhaps it was inevitable.
ReplyDeleteIt's magnificent, and as someone who was in high school at the time of its release, it's one of my first Feminist Texts.
ReplyDelete"Violet" was the first track on my Angry Young Women mix.
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