Live Through This was released a mere 4 days after Kurt Kobain's suicide. This is regarded as Hole's masterpiece. It's that good. But I've always been torn between this one and Celebrity Skin as being the best. The album is so good that even Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1994, as well as later awarding it a spot on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and rightly so.

As mentioned before, the lineup is always changing. Only 2 (Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson) remain from Pretty On The Inside. Taking over on Bass is Kristen Pfaff, who would later OD. And on Drums is Patty Schemel.

Overall, Live Through This is a much stronger album and more polished (while keeping it's edge) than that of their previous effort. The music style is more along the lines of Grunge/Alternative. The songs are full of hooks and melodies that easily made them radio friendly. I highly recommend this to anyone that is a fan of music. Even if you absolutely hate Courtney for whatever reason, you owe it to yourself to at least check it out and not just write it off because of all the tabloid fodder that has followed her wherever she goes.

Fave Songs: Violet, Miss World, Plump, Asking For It, Doll Parts, Credit In The Straight World and I Think That I Would Die

The album cover is an instant classic. Easily identifiable as a Hole album. And for the back cover, that's a young Courtney Love.

Nobody's Daughter is Hole's first album in 12 years. But it's only a Hole album in name only. Courtney Love is the only returning member from any versions of the band. After her disastrous solo album, my guess is that rather than trying to rebrand herself, it was better to fall back into a brand name that already worked for her...Hole. The biggest MIA here is that of Erik Friedlander, who co-formed Hole along with Courtney. So when she decided to resurrect the band without his involvement, it got ugly with lawsuits, etc....

Now that that's out of the way, I will rate on what the album is regardless of what the band name says or not. It's either a good album or a sh*tty one. And that goes for anything I listen to. As for Nobody's Daughter...it doesn't suck. But it's nowhere near that of the past 2 albums. It suffers from an uneven track list and a couple of songs should have been dropped all together. Stylistically it harkens back to it's alternative roots. It's not as pop-centric as Celebrity Skin.

Fave Songs: Someone Else's Bed and Letter To God