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}} ''Live Through This'' is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Hole. It was released by DGC Records on April 12, 1994, just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home. It was Hole's only album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff before her death in June 1994. Recorded in October 1993, the album marked a divergence from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure, and features production by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, with mixing by Scott Litt and J Mascis. The album's lyrics and packaging reflect Love's preoccupation with beauty, and its songs contain repeated motifs of milk, motherhood, anti-elitism, and violence against women. The album's title is derived from a quote in ''Gone with the Wind''.〔 The album met near-unanimous critical acclaim upon release, earning top-100 chart spots in seven countries and going multi-platinum. It has been considered as a contemporary classic, and was included in ''Rolling Stone''s list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Hole', Live Through This - 500 Greatest Albums of All Time )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Rolling Stone )〕 The album was also named the 84th greatest album of all time in a list produced by ''NME'' magazine in 2013. As of 2010, it has sold over 1.6 million copies in the United States.〔 ==Background== Hole released its debut studio album, ''Pretty on the Inside'', in 1991 and despite moderate sales, the album was a critical success among English and American press. In March 1992, following the tour to support the album's release, two members of Hole drummer Caroline Rue and bassist Jill Emery left the band due to artistic differences. In April 1992, vocalist Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson arranged auditions for a drummer at the Jabberjaw in Los Angeles, California and recruited drummer Patty Schemel. Love, Erlandson and Schemel then relocated to Carnation, Washington to a house owned by Love and her husband Kurt Cobain and began rehearsing and writing material for a second album. "We had been going more pop, less journal-entry noise stuff," said Erlandson.〔 "(the time ) I was very competitive with Kurt () because I wanted more melody," Love had stated. "But I already wanted that before (wrote ) ''Live Through This''."〔 Originally signed to Caroline Records in the United States and City Slang in Europe, Hole began record deal negotiations with Geffen Records in early 1992. In February 1992, the band signed with DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen, with "an advance of a million dollars and a royalty rate considerably higher than Nirvana's." The final deal reached was a seven-album deal, reported to be over $3 million. On November 8, 1992, the band recorded "Beautiful Son," "20 Years in the Dakota" and "Old Age" during a recording session at Word of Mouth Recording in Seattle with producer Jack Endino. The three-song session was later released in April 1993 as Hole's fourth single on the City Slang label. On January 21, 1993, Love and Schemel recorded five demo songs at BMG Ariola Ltda. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Produced by Craig Montgomery, the session was originally a demo session for Nirvana, who were recording material for their upcoming studio album, ''In Utero'' (1993).〔Cross, p.266〕 During breaks in Nirvana's session, Love and Schemel recorded a number of songs later featured on ''Live Through This'', including "Miss World," "She Walks on Me," "I Think That I Would Die" and "Softer, Softest." The band relocated back to Los Angeles where they recruited former Janitor Joe bassist Kristen Pfaff in early 1993; Pfaff was also an accomplished cellist and music student.〔 Erlandson said of Pfaff's membership: "That's when we took off, all of a sudden we became a real band." After a brief tour of the United Kingdom in the summer of 1993, the band sent a series of demos to the record label. "When we got the ''Live Through This'' demos, I realized very quickly that Hole had gotten a new rhythm section," said producer Sean Slade. "It was much more musical."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Live Through This」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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