Song of the Day #8: Credit in the Straight World - Hole

[severity_softly]

iTunes picked The Beatles, but it was too soon after the last Beatles song I posted, and this came up next. It's funny because I was just discussing Courtney Love with crowson75 the other day. Like I said then, I'm not sure I would like the woman personally if I ever met her, but she is very talented, and I'm a fan. Crowson puts it in words better than I did: "I like her for her honesty and her insanity I guess - but from a distance. She doesn't seem contrived and she doesn't seem to have a stop button. What you see is really what you get. That has a certain amount of power in this day and age." EXACTLY.

Also, I really love this song. It's a cover, but it's great. I'd call it an easy favorite from this album, but this album is pretty much awesome overall, so that's hard to say.

Comments

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

I was a huge Hole fan and I think what crowson75 said was pretty much on point. I would love for Hole to do some new stuff but Courtney Love is so huge now in her Courtney Love-ness I dont know what they would make. But Live Through This, and their second album, though it was more glitzy and polished, was good stuff.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Live Through This was their second album, but Celebrity Skin, the third, was very polished and still awesome! I have their first, Pretty on the Inside, which is really punk. This is one of my favs from it:



Also, that icon always cracks me up, and I have no idea what it's from.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

It's just a Tina Fey icon.....I do adore her.

OK, yeah, I love Celebrity Skin and Live Through This, I've never heard their first album. I'm going to listen to the song when I get home. Matilda plays much better than my crap work computer.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Tina Fey is awesome!

That song is definietly not work safe, either, so that's probably best! :)

[crowson75.livejournal.com]

*curtseys* ;)

I adore that song; it's one of my fave cover versions ever. Hole's version is classic and she delivers it with so much intensity. Awesome record.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard the original until recently, but I like the Hole version way better. Of course, I heard it first, but you know. lol