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THE REVIEW
AH!!!!!!!!!!!
What more can be said!? Joining the screams and the solid wall of music that comes out of the record could be a good way to avoid the twisting of the guts.
An album that is a must-have but should be taken in small doses, let your ears get used to it and then proceed with larger doses.
It's a real, true, instinctive, alive record.
There's nothing artificial, no record label interference, there's only instinct and music.
"Pretty On The Inside" opens with a guitar slide and a scream that will continue to the end, it's "Teenage Whore". It features amazing and well-handled ideas for the riot genre like "Garbadge Man" (with the misspelling), "Good Sister/Bad Sister" (which ends in the sexiest way possible), and the final touch: "Pretty On The Inside". A song that lasts as long as a scream with all the breath you can take in just two lungs(!) and then let it all out. A song that is a bit of the essence of the album's concept.
A truly aggressive but liberating album.
A complex mix of punk, riot grrrl, grunge.
From punk, it takes immediacy and simple musical technique, from riot, the strong lyrics, the reality that every girl lives, from grunge, the self-harm and that certain something.
All in just one album!
We need more albums like this!
Author: vistavenus
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This review celebrates Hole's debut album Pretty On the Inside as a raw and instinctive record full of screaming intensity and aggressive energy. The album fuses punk's immediacy with riot grrrl's powerful lyrics and grunge's emotional rawness. It's described as a must-have but best enjoyed in small doses due to its overwhelming force. Key tracks like Teenage Whore and Garbage Man highlight the album's spirit.Tracklist Lyrics
Hole
Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson. The group became a fixture of the 1990s alt‑rock scene with the albums Pretty on the Inside (1991), Live Through This (1994), and Celebrity Skin (1998), later returning with Nobody’s Daughter (2010).09 Reviews
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By kristen
Pretty On The Inside is an album so raw and brutal that it is hard to listen to: instead, listen to it and listen to it again.
With this abrasive album, the band - led by the impetuous Courtney Love (in a whore-child style) - begins to make their way in the music scene of the Nineties.
By ashanti
The resulting album is one that "feeds on discomfort"... it’s a single, endless chant that disturbs... zero melody and all Sonic Youth-style noise.
Courtney... sings of a corrupted authenticity, of sold innocence, of faded candor, of disturbed sound, of music that unsettles us but is finished.
