from the 33 1/3 series. part bio of the band, the album, and Courtney love, part memoir about the experience of listening to it as a kid, part cultural critique of its lyrics and reception. fantastic. If you don’t vibe with the album or Courtney, odds are there’s another book in the series about an album you love!
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Patty Schemel is a drummer best known from her time in Hole. She was friends with Kurt Cobain, eventually living with him and Kurt & Courtney Love during the height of Nirvana's fame. Sadly, like most of her peers, she struggled immensely with drug addiction. She chronicles her career with a sense of completely candidness and gut-wrenching honesty. She's the first person (I've seen) to write about Courtney Love in a tone that isn't twisted or sexist. If you're not much of a reader, I recommend the audiobook, which Schemel narrates herself. The chapters are short, but that just makes it easier to ingest.
Jan 26, 2024
for music lovers! small books each on a single album. i always see them at the bookstore and i recently purchased the liz phair ”exile in guyville” one which supremely rocked my world. i love an album dissection / some good old music history
Sep 26, 2024
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Ten by Pearl Jam is one of my all time favorite classic/hard rock slash grunge albums. Hole’s album Live Through This is more of a melodic grunge/alternative rock, but a solid female vocal album. I feel like it never really got all the flowers it deserved because it was a female vocalist at the same time. I just ignore the fact that it’s Courtney Love lol. I’ve said this in a rec before and I’ll say it again: I will listen to ANYTHING that Chris Cornell worked on lol. He was a part of a few 90s grungy bands, so if you haven’t already definitely check out Soundgarden, Audioslave, and/or Temple of the Dog. Superunknown by Soundgarden is probably one of the best known. Some are popular enough, but ones I feel were all pretty quintessential 90s albums that were a great part of the sound.
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Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.
Oct 21, 2024
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hundreds of thousands of times over
The context may be different but no emotion is completely new— i can cope
Aug 1, 2024