My Body, the Hand Grenade
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| Compilation album by Hole | ||
| Released | October 28, 1997 | |
| Recorded | March 1990 - August 1995 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 55:00 | |
| Label | City Slang | |
| Producer(s) | Hole | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Hole chronology | ||
| The First Session (1997) |
My Body, the Hand Grenade (1997) |
Celebrity Skin (1998) |
My Body, the Hand Grenade is an album by Hole that includes b-sides, demo recordings, live songs, and other rare and unreleased tracks by the band. Besides most of the songwriting credits goes to Hole, the BMI website shows that most of the songs were written just by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, except "Retard Girl", written by Love; "Old Age", written by Kurt Cobain/Courtney Love (contested); "Beautiful Son" and "20 Years In The Dakota", written by Love, Eric Erlandson and Patty Schemel; and "Drown Soda", the only case on the album of a song credited to a full Hole line-up (Love, Erlandson, Jill Emery and Caroline Rue).
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Hole, unless noted otherwise
- "Turpentine" – 4:00
- "Phonebill Song" – 1:48
- "Retard Girl" – 4:47
- "Burn Black" – 4:56
- "Dicknail" – 3:39
- "Beautiful Son" – 2:30
- "20 Years in the Dakota" – 2:54
- "Miss World" (demo version) – 3:29
- "Old Age" – 4:23
- "Softer, Softest" (from MTV Unplugged) – 3:47
- "He Hit Me (It Felt like a Kiss)" (from MTV Unplugged; written by Carole King/Gerry Goffin) – 3:44
- "Season of the Witch" (from MTV Unplugged; written by Donovan Leitch) – 3:42
- "Drown Soda" (live version) – 6:10
- "Asking for It" (live version) – 3:58
| Hole |
| Courtney Love | Eric Erlandson | Patty Schemel | Melissa Auf der Maur |
| Jill Emery | Leslie Hardy | Samantha Maloney | Kristen Pfaff | Lisa Roberts | Caroline Rue | Errol Stewert |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums and EPs: Pretty on the Inside | Live Through This | Ask for It | The First Session | My Body, the Hand Grenade | Celebrity Skin |
| Singles: "Retard Girl" | "Dicknail" | "Teenage Whore" | "Beautiful Son" | "Miss World" | "Doll Parts" | "Violet" | "Softer, Softest" | "Gold Dust Woman" | "Celebrity Skin" | "Malibu" | "Awful" | "Be a Man" |
| Related articles |
| Sympathy for the Record Industry | Kurt Cobain | Nirvana | Billy Corgan | Kat Bjelland |
