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Celebrity Skin by Hole

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Celebrity Skin 2:42 267,102
2 Awful 3:16 99,021
3 Hit So Hard 4:00 66,760
4 Malibu 3:50 168,263
5 Reasons To Be Beautiful 5:19 78,026
6 Dying 3:45 86,102
7 Use Once & Destroy 5:04 37,813
8 Northern Star 4:58 68,147
9 Boys On The Radio 5:09 59,060
10 Heaven Tonight 3:30 61,063
11 Playing Your Song 3:21 56,708
12 Petals 5:28 50,449
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About this album

Universal Music GmbH (2006) Released: 12 May 2006 12 tracks (50:22)
Celebrity Skin is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on September 7, 1998 on Geffen Records and one day later in the United States on DGC Records. Hole intended the record to diverge significantly from their previous noise and grunge-influenced sound as featured on Pretty on the Inside (1991) and Live Through This (1994). In order to produce a cleaner, polished and more radio friendly pop rock sound, the band hired producer Michael Beinhorn to record Celebrity Skin over a nine month period that included the band recording in California, New York and the United Kingdom.

The album was the band’s first studio release to feature bassist Melissa Auf der Maur following the death of former bassist Kristen Pfaff in June 1994. Unlike the material on the band’s previous albums, the songs on Celebrity Skin were composed by a number of musicians instead of solely frontwoman Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan contributed largely to the album’s writing process and others, including Auf der Maur’s former bandmate Jordon Zadorozny, contributed to its composition. Celebrity Skin was the original band’s last album before their disbandment in 2002.
Celebrity Skin is Hole’s most commercially successful album. To date, it has sold over 1,400,000 copies in the United States alone, has been certified as platinum in Australia, Canada and the United States and garnered Hole a number one hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track, “Celebrity Skin.” Critical reaction to the album was largely positive and the album was listed on a number of publications’ year-end lists in 1998.
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  • deadgrandma

    @Plump_ all Hole albums are pop rock from Live Through This onward.

    Friday morning

  • lavenderpixie

    I bought this at age 11 - my first real rock record. It blew my mind and changed my life. <3

    last month

  • pheeshop

    better than anything from foo fighters. in the past or future.

    March 2012

  • Plump_

    I don't like this album , beacuse it's pop-rock . my favourities : Nothern Star , Reasons to be Beautiful

    March 2012

  • katia111

    Dying♥♥

    February 2012

  • distortedguest

    It's not an oxymoron--an oxymoron is two mutually exclusive concepts. The word you want is "redundant."

    January 2012

  • PartySanCTG

    Wait, what is "power rock" supposed to be anyway? Isn't that an oxymoron? Rock is supposed to be about power...

    January 2012

  • Pink_Boy87

    Power Rock? this album is an Alternative Rock

    September 2011

  • Unashamed

    Reasons To Be Beautiful gives me goosebumps.

    August 2011

  • idiotsdream

    This is very much a 'drive down to the beach top down' type album. Excellent for summer.

    July 2011

  • ferhellen

    My favorite album!

    June 2011

  • stepha603

    The sound might be closer to power pop, but there's still a lot of the same grungy sort of emotion on this album, even if not as much as on LTT. I mean, the song "Celebrity Skin" sounds pop-ish and maybe even happy - but if you actually listen to the lyrics, it's really dark.

    June 2011

  • PartySanCTG

    It's good, but I wouldn't call it grunge. If anything, it's more power pop.

    May 2011

  • cbecrad

    Just finished listening to this album...probably the first time in over 10 years. I never realized what great songs it has. Really good album.

    February 2011

  • xtinachristina

    i like hole

    December 2010

  • eletric_feel

    fuck! so good album.

    November 2010

  • deadgrandma

    You are an absolute fucking fucking fuck head if you don't like this album. It's like MY album, so much love, heartbreak and make-up came with this, Malibu is the epitome of greatness

    October 2010

  • FerMitre

    Boys on the Eadio is AMAZING =)

    October 2010

  • DigitaldudeNZ

    Crazily good album.

    September 2010

  • luke_suspicious

    Boys on the Radio is nothing short of their best track ever. I can't help but loving the maturity, lyrical sincerity and emotional rawness of this album. Courtney and the band itself were inspired as hell here.

    September 2010
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