Hole's second album "Live Through This" was rated the best album of 1994 by critics polls in the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Los Angeles Times and several other major music publications. This band rocks hard and well. The drummer and lead guitarist are triply blessed with originality, experience, and pure technical skill. The bass player doesn't let them down either. The sum is a tapestry of hard rock rhythms with punk slashes and new wave drifts that made me dance across my carpet for the first six times I played this CD. Courtney Love's lyrics write new chapters in the old book of rock. She wails and whines with acid irony about rape, child abuse, beauty queens, and her own fans. Her crafted nasal twang and the restless sexual defiance of her words put her band on the tensed extremity of sexual anger in American culture in the nineties -- much in the same way that the Rolling Stones did in the sixties with songs like "Satisfaction" and "Back Street Girl." But Hole always shoves rock rebellion in the feminist direction, away from the laid-back misogyny of the Stones and their progeny. Take a look at the DrOwNCoDa Hole WeBPaGEs, the offical repository of lyrics to Hole songs, discographies, and the collected Net posts of Courtney Love herself. Here are a few more Music links, including one for Patti Smith, the Ultimate Poet-Goddess of Rock, a primary inspiration for Courtney Love, Liz Phair, and most of the younger generation of women now taking control of the creative spotlight in rock music. Go back to my homepage.