COVERS BY THE BAND HOLE

I've written about some of the influences via film and fashion of the "kinderwhore" persona that Courtney Love was so fond of in the early '90s. Musically, she seemed influenced by a variety of sounds. They were definitely easy to label "grunge", but Courtney loved pop music of the past, hung around the New Wave scene as a groupie for a while in the '80s, and living in California was around the legacy of LA punk. For a while though Hole was rad as fuck. Their first two records, Pretty on the Inside (produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon) and Live Through This, were great... then after Kurt died, Hole got a bit glossy and lost a lot of their charm. One thing about that era was that Hole produced a bunch of great covers, mostly of late '80s indie proto-grunge bands and '70s acousto pop hits. Some of these covers are way better than others, but many are bad ass renditions are other people's songs.