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Celebrity Skin | 
| Artist: Hole
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 9439
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 50
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 25164
UPC: 720642516423
EAN: 0720642516423
ASIN: B00000AFWW
Release Date: March 29, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Celebrity Skin | | • | Awful | | • | Hit So Hard | | • | Malibu | | • | Reasons To Be Beautiful | | • | Dying | | • | Use Once & Destroy | | • | Northern Star | | • | Boys On The Radio | | • | Heaven Tonight | | • | Playing Your Song | | • | Petals |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
When last we saw Courtney Love, she was performing on the silver screen and posing for Versace, a far cry from her formative days stumbling across stages wearing ripped thrift-store clothing. But Love's Hollywood transformation is just the latest in her crusade for adoration, whatever the environment. And Celebrity Skin is just the latest manifestation of that obsession. Instead of screaming in rage over a muscular din of power chords, Love sings in a restrained, melodic alto voice; the band matches the euphony with rhythms and hooks that draw from such mainstream acts as Fleetwood Mac, the Go-Go's, and, of course, Smashing Pumpkins, whose frontman, Billy Corgan, co-wrote five songs. What makes Celebrity Skin more than another good rock album, however, is Love's lyrics, which remain confessional and scathing, addressing such topics as physical abuse ("Hit So Hard"), drugs ("Use Once and Destroy"), the music industry ("Awful", "Boys on the Radio"), and her late husband's suicide ("Reasons to Be Beautiful"). If nothing else, Celebrity Skin is proof to all the skeptics that superstars have feelings, too. --Jon Wiederhorn
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Rip Your Heart Out ( nevertoolate #005 ) April 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ms Love has never been her own best friend.
This is self-evident.
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
Chasing that elusive spotlight.
(It's there / It's gone / It's there /...It's gone).
Conspicuous rock and roll celebrity desperation.
The last time I saw her she seemed to have ditched
the booze and pills and powders and with the aid
of a little meditation appeared to be squaring up to
a new solo album.
I was hopeful. I find myself rooting for her against
my better judgement. I want her to succeed.
That was sometime in late 2007. Her website records
no activity since then. The album did not appear.
1998 (God was it really that long ago ?) saw the release
of Hole's 'Celebrity Skin'.
12 blisteringly raw rock songs, the majority of which bear
evidence of Ms Love's pen and not insignificant passion.
Her performances are focussed, powerful and convincing.
The band create a dense wall of sound; sometimes grindingly
hard and heavy; at other times fleet of foot and demonstrating
a finely tuned pop sensibility.
There's not an ounce of spare fat on this album.
The production is wholly committed to the spirit of the music.
Ms Love's finest moment for sure.
I wish at least one more for her.
I love pop music April 8, 2008
Pop.Why are some so scared of that little three letter word.
Sue I love Napalm Death,My Dying Bride and Darkthrone,but why should that mean I shouldn't like Gwen Stefani,Kelis and Daft Punk.Anyone says I shouldn't,who cares.
Hole go pop,great.
Like Courtney said,"sometimes I want to sound like grindcore,and other times I want to sound like raspberries style pop".Makes perfect sense to me.
Smart up-tempo Hollywood hooks February 12, 2008
Smart up-tempo Hollywood hooks an a clear ability to write great songs.
The souind & feel is Fleetwood Mac meets Smashing Pumpkins; no surprise perhaps since Billy Corgan co-wrote five songs (the best ones as it happens).
The lyrics are confessional and scathing, covering subject matter from abuse, drugs, the film industry, fortune and fame to celebrity culture.
High quality, guitar-driven pop-rock.
It smells like girl November 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once again Hole have brought us a raw insightful and lyrically fantastic album. The band have once again covered a wide range of topics in Courtney Loves lyrics and also a selection of up tempo feminist anthems combined with beautiful ballads all in a 12 song album.
The lyrics are ingenious in `Hit So Hard' the lyrics make you wonder what exactly Courtney's voice is describing the immediate reaction to this song is to think that she is talking about Domestic abuse as in the song `He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)' but on further listening I feel that it is the feeling of seeing the most beautiful boy you have ever seen from across the room I think that she is in fact describing that feeling but the intelligent lyrics make both ideas possible and mean that the listener can draw form their own experiences and interpret the song in the way they feel appropriate.
Overall the lyrics on this album are some of Courtney Loves best, this is Courtney Love and Hole after having to hide from the bad publicity Courtney Love was receiving after the death of Kurt Cobain they came back triumphant though with a marvellous album- Celebrity Skin.
The ordeal and loss Love had gone through shine through in `Playing your song' the only song on this album in which her voice sounds angry.
By far the songs on this album I personally think are best are `Dying' and Reasons to be beautiful. In `Dying' Love's Voice pierces the air almost pleading "Remember - you promised me" it is with these lyrics that sting when listening to this song. Reasons to be beautiful is a finely polished rock song the lyrics plead, question and show aggression.
This is an album for the girls, through the songs it tells a story the story of what it is to be female.
Shoot it up March 21, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a perfect pop record commercial yet gutsy.
Awful is a fantastic pop record it's melodic and rythmic with the hard edge you'd expect from Hole. The title tracks lyrics are a recount of how damaging Hollywood life is and how the music industry crushes free spirits. One line in Celebrity Skin refers to Garbage front woman Shirley Mansen (famous for her low self image)and gives some sisterly support i.e. 'beutiful garbage'. There are some paralels between Courtney and Shirley, though Hole moved much faster from underground to commercial than Manson did coming from the darkness of Angelfish to the commercial indie of Garbage. Courteny gives us the benefit of her artistic nature in 'Use once and destroy' a common phrase used in a cunning way in this track about casual sex gone wrong (or is it more anti music business rhetoric). Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumkins involvement in this LP has also been an enhacing factor along with Melissa Auf Der Maur's contribution. A great (if commercial) post Grunge album.
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