Alan (the Lone Librarian) Teder’s Reviews > Hole's Live Through This > Status Update

I absolutely love Hole. I play Violet from that album when I’m angry at the world. Some people find it too angry, but for me it’s a way to let loose. I will play the album on the way to work in your honour.

Sportyrod wrote: "I absolutely love Hole. I play Violet from that album when I’m angry at the world. Some people find it too angry, but for me it’s a way to let loose. I will play the album on the way to work in you..."

I am honoured! The review to come will be dedicated in your honour Roddiato 😊. I also have Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir on the go right now and this is all in prep for her photography book Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs and its upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario here in Toronto.
The Hole 33 1/3 book is by an Australian writer and all of the fans interviewed were Australian.

Look at you appreciating it from three angles! I played the album…and LOVE it. I saved a handful of them and played them on the way home.

This album is such a classic. 🤩 Top five grunge albums ever, full stop. Courtney is a damn genius.

If you can tell me how she gets that I'm singing from the bottom of a well sound on this album that she has on no other--I will be truly fascinated. I've often wondered, but no one can explain it to me.

Dan wrote: "This album is such a classic. 🤩 Top five grunge albums ever, full stop. Courtney is a damn genius.
If you can tell me how she gets that I'm singing from the bottom of a well sound on this album t..."

The book doesn't give away any trade secrets of the recording techniques used by the producers but there is a passage about the vocals which I'll quote, first by author Anwen Crawford and then co-producer co-engineer Sean Slade:

"It occurs to me that what appealed - what still appeals - in Courtney Love's voice on Live Through This is not simply her anger, but her control. I used to try singing along with her vocal lines on Live Through This, but I could never keep up with her. The woman has a lung capacity beyond that of most mortals, and, like all great rock singers, she has an innate sense of phrasing, knowing when to slow down, pull back - and when to explode. On the subject of recording Courtney's vocals, Sean Slade recalls:

She would come in and warm up, warm up to the atmosphere of the studio. Then she'd do some takes, but they weren't particularly usable because she was warming up, getting into the spirit of recording. And then for about a two-hour window of opportunity, she would be just great: really singing, really focused. She put a lot of energy into those two hours, so that after those two hours we found that you got diminishing returns. If we could get a two-hour session each night, we considered that a great accomplishment, and so what Paul and I would do then is come in early in the morning - or, at least, earlier than the band - and we would go through and edit the vocal takes that we had, to create what we thought of as the best vocal take of that particular session."

Alan (the Lone Librarian) wrote: "Dan wrote: "This album is such a classic. 🤩 Top five grunge albums ever, full stop. Courtney is a damn genius.
If you can tell me how she gets that I'm singing from the bottom of a well sound on t..."

I've always wondered what the difference is. Whether it's acoustics of the studio or what. It's a trademark sound of LTT, but it's not there on POTI, CS, or ND.

Thank you, Alan. 😊