SKIP: Hole, "Nobody's Daughter"

Posted 2010/04/26 15:47:42
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The story goes like this: Mrs. Kurt Cobain was sitting in rehab when her friend, producer, songwriter, and former 4 Non Blonde Linda Perry gave her a guitar. Love wrote a bunch of tunes you'd expect from someone in rehab — songs about anger, pain, regret, kicking addictions. Perry and Billy Corgan formed a musical support group for Love, and so was born "Nobody's Daughter." Objectively speaking, it's the best album from Love since '94s "Live Through This." Musically, it's polished, tight, and muscular — though at times a bit mired in '90s alt-rock cliches. The problem is that it's impossible to separate Love's singular brand of crazy from her music. If this were the debut release from someone named Holly Wishbone, it would stay on my playlist for a week. Unfortunately, there's too much baggage that comes with Courtney Love hiding behind a band named Hole. "Nobody's Daughter" just seems like the latest installment in Love's psycho reality show. I guess it is. Wonder if Frances Bean is listening. Talk about nobody's daughter.

WATCH Hole perform "Skinny Little Bitch" live at this year's SXSW.