Pretty on the Inside
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| Pretty on the Inside | ||
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| Studio album by Hole | ||
| Released | September 17, 1991 | |
| Recorded | Music Box Studios, L.A. | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 38:31 | |
| Label | Caroline | |
| Producer(s) | Kim Gordon, Don Fleming | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Hole chronology | ||
| Pretty on the Inside (1991) |
Live Through This (1994) |
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Pretty on the Inside is Hole's first album, released in 1991 by Caroline Records. The recording took place at in L.A.'s Music Box Studios. With Sonic Youth's bassist Kim Gordon and Gumball's leader Don Fleming in charge of production, the studio work took only four days and Courtney Love used to gargle whiskey during the recording sessions to give a raw edge to her vocals. The album features a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (credited as "Clouds") and two noise suites: "Sassy" and "Starbelly". The only single taken from the album was "Teenage Whore", which went into the Top 20 in the U.K. charts in late 1991. Only one video was made to a song on the album, "Garbage Man". Both the bassist, Jill Emery and the the drummer, Caroline Rue, left the band after the release of the album.
At last count, in 1995, Pretty on the Inside has sold more than 30,000 copies.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Hole.
- "Teenage Whore" – 2:57
- "Babydoll" – 4:59
- "Garbage Man" – 3:19
- "Sassy" – 1:43
- "Good Sister/Bad Sister" – 5:47
- "Mrs. Jones" – 5:25
- "Berry" – 2:46
- "Loaded" – 4:19
- "Star Belly" – 1:46
- "Pretty on the Inside/Clouds" – 5:25
- Some albums separate Pretty on the Inside and Clouds as separate tracks.
[edit] Personnel
- Jill Emery - bass
- Eric Erlandson - guitar
- Courtney Love - guitar, vocals
- Caroline Rue - drums
[edit] Production
- Producers: Kim Gordon and Don Fleming
- Engineer: Brian B-Sly Foxworthy
- Photography: Vicki Berndt
[edit] Trivia
- The voice recording that plays in "Sassy" is from an answering machine message left by Inger Lorre.
- "Starbelly" is based on the main riff of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl", and features a cassette-played excerpt from "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac and an early recording of "Best Sunday Dress" by The Pagan Babies, one of Love's earlier bands with Kat Bjelland. The latter would be redone and re-recorded by Hole in 1998, and "Rhiannon" would be featured in a comeback performance by Courtney Love in 2006.
| 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 |
