33 and 1/3 Study of Hole
Hole-Live Through This by Anwen Crawford
The job of the author was to make me love this album. The author didn't succeed.
The specter of Kurt Cobain's death hung over this album when it first came out. Courtney Love was described as gold-digger, puppet of Cobain's, or a talentless attention seeker. The author does explain why each of these charges are incorrect. Those charges still stuck even to today. It wasn't a convincing argument. The death of Kristin Pfaff is detailed, but it didn't have an effect on the album.
The album had themes of womanhood, sexual hypocrisy and the music world. On it's own merits, it had a lot to listen for. Because the music wasn't a big departure from the sound of the time or Nirvana, this will always be seen as a Nirvana copy album.
This was a sold attempt to change that history, but it didn't do it for me.