Pretty on the inside
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Publication |
23rd August 1991 |
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March 1991 |
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Caroline Records (United States) City Slang (Europe) |
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
38:26 |
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Kim Gordon , Don Fleming |
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Studio (s) |
Music Box Studios, Los Angeles , California |
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Pretty on the Inside is the debut album by the grunge band Hole . The band members at the time were Courtney Love (vocals / guitar), Eric Erlandson (guitar), Jill Emery (bass) and Carolyn Rue ( drums ).
Pretty on the inside
Hole was founded in 1989. After two singles , Retard Girl (1990, Sympathy for the Record Industry) and Dicknail (1991, Sub Pop ), the band signed a record deal with Caroline Records . Kim Gordon and Don Fleming were hired as producers . In fact, Courtney Love courted Kim Gordon, the singer and bassist of Sonic Youth , who, however, did not see herself as a producer and therefore hired Don Fleming from the befriended band Gumball . The recordings took place at the Music Box Studios in Los Angeles and were completed in seven days in March 1991. The album was written together by the entire band. The eleventh and final track is Clouds , a cover version by Joni Mitchell . This song, which merges with the previous track, the theme song Pretty on the Inside , is not listed separately on the US version of the album .
Pretty on the Inside was released on August 23, 1991 via Caroline Records. The album was released in Europe on the German independent label City Slang . The first and only single Teenage Whore was released a few days earlier with the B-sides Drown Soda and Burn Black , which were not included on the album.
After the release, the line-up broke up. Patty Schemel (drums) and Leslie Hardy (bass) joined the band.
Track list
- Teenage Whore - 2:57
- Babydoll - 5:00
- Garbage Man - 3:14
- Sassy - 1:43
- Good Sister / Bad Sister - 5:47
- Mrs. Jones - 5:20
- Berry - 2:46
- Loaded - 4:19
- Star Belly - 1:46
- Pretty on the Inside - 1:27
- Clouds ( Joni Mitchell ) - 3:58
success
The single Teenage Whore reached # 1 in the UK independent charts. The album itself missed the charts but received benevolent reviews, particularly in the UK music press. By 2004, 200,000 copies of the album had been sold.
The album was included in the list of the 20 best albums of the year by Melody Maker .
Music genre
Hole's debut album sounds like an angry mix of alternative rock , punk and noise rock pieces in the opinion of many reviewers . The album is described by Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as "uncompromising". The frequent use of white noise and feedback would make it difficult to hear the album in one go. In addition, Love sang the songs on the album unclean, deep and aggressive. The vocals were mixed deeper in places, which made the lyrics even more difficult to understand. Musically, the album leaned on the riot grrrl scene around bands like Babes in Toyland and L7 , but went further in terms of concept and aggression.
In addition, there were mainly political, feminist texts, which were primarily angry reactions and accusations against the establishment. Many of the songs were based on the pair of opposites “good and beautiful” against the backdrop of their hometown of Los Angeles . Some of the songs, such as Teenage Whore and the title track, are autobiographical and based on Courtney Love's difficult childhood.
Others
The cover shows the band against a pink background, they were photographed by Vickie Berndt. The back of the album cover was designed and drawn by bassist Jill Emery herself.
A video was made of Garbadge Man (the spelling mistake is intentional).
Individual evidence
- ^ Brad Cohan: Q&A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager". (No longer available online.) Village Voice , August 10, 2011, formerly the original ; Retrieved May 15, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Versions of Pretty on the Inside. Discogs , accessed May 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Teenage Whore. Discogs , accessed May 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Hole's biography. Laut.de , accessed on May 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Indie Charts: September 28, 1991, The ITV Chart Show, Channel 4
- ↑ Get it from Allmusic . Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ↑ Sweetheart . In: Billboard . July 19, 2003, p. 60 .
- ^ A b Sheila Whiteley: Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-21189-5 , pp. 208 .
- ↑ Pretty on the Inside at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ↑ Ronald D. Lankford: Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7268-4 , pp. 77 .
- ↑ Daisy von Furth: Hole Lotta Love . In: Spin . October 1991, p. 32 .
- ^ Maria Raha: Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground . Seal Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58005-116-3 , pp. 179 .
