We're Not Who You Think We Are
Album: Live Through This
Year: 1994
Perfectly capturing that disassociation when you like someone and you’re not sure they like you back, “Doll Parts” features drums that continually start and stop, like when you’re at a party or a show and you keep starting to walk over to talk that person, but then you catch yourself, and turn back around.
It’s also got some of Courtney Love’s most iconic lyrics.
Album: Live Through This
Year: 1994
Because he sang backing vocals, “Asking For It” is often cited as “evidence” that Kurt Cobain contributed to a significant amount of Live Through This. Which is such bollocks, even if Live Through This is far more melodic than Pretty on the Inside was.
Look, if you had access to Kurt Cobain while you were writing songs, wouldn’t you get his opinion? Or at the very least, steal some of the tricks you learned from him? I know I sure would.
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Album: Live Through This
Year: 1994
Now that it’s all ancient history, how does Live Through This sound?
Now that entire generations of punks and popstars and chick-rockers and controversies and drugs and conspiracies and reissues have come and gone, how does this record sound two decades divorced from the raging inferno that surrounded it?