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''Pretty on the Inside'' is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on September 17, 1991 in the United States on Caroline Records.() Produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, and Gumball frontman Don Fleming, the album was Hole's first major label release after the band's formation in 1989 by singer-songwriter Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The album features distorted and alternating guitar compositions, screaming vocals, "shock value" lyrics, and "sloppy punk ethics", a style which the band would later distance themselves from, opting for a less abrasive sound on their subsequent releases.〔 Love's lyrics on the album are often narrative, graphic, and abstract, detailing issues of violence, self-realization, and womanhood. The record was dedicated to Rob Ritter of the Los Angeles punk rock acts Bags and The Gun Club.〔 ''Pretty on the Inside'' was well received by alternative music critics, garnering favorable reviews in ''Spin'', ''NME'', and ''The Village Voice''. It received considerable commercial success in the United Kingdom, where the record's lead single, "Teenage Whore," entered the UK Indie Chart at number one in September 1991. It has sold over 200,000 copies in the United States and gained a contemporary cult following among punk rock fans, and has been cited as a seminal influence for songwriters and musicians such as Brody Dalle and Scout Niblett. Despite its critical acclaim, frontwoman Courtney Love has, in later years, referred to the album as "unlistenable." An LP version of the album was reissued in the United States in August 2011 to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. ==Background== Hole formed in 1989 in Los Angeles, California when frontwoman Courtney Love, after years of fruitless attempts at forming bands, bought her neighbor Lisa Roberts a bass and posted an advertisement in a local paper stating: "I want to start a band. My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac." Eric Erlandson, along with over a dozen other musicians, answered the ad. Love later said that she knew Eric was "the one" as soon as they met, and that he had a "Thurston Moore quality about him" that she liked.〔 Erlandson said that early in Hole's career, they were more interested in "making noise" than achieving success and before drummer Caroline Rue joined the band that they used no percussion whatsoever. It was not until Love and Erlandson heard Mudhoney's "Touch Me, I'm Sick" that they began to think about taking the band to the next level. Early on, the band was most influenced by the New York No Wave art and music scene of the 1980s, which included visual artists, such as Richard Kern, as well as scuzz rock acts, such as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Sonic Youth, and Pussy Galore. The band also featured a third guitarist in its early days, first Mike Geisbrecht and then Errol Stewart. After the band's first four shows, the original lineup disbanded and Hole recruited bassist Jill Emery in 1990. In the documentary film ''Not Bad for a Girl'', Love, who had been in the erotic dancing industry for years prior, said that she worked as a stripper to help support the band in its early incarnation.〔 She also cited her work as a dancer as being one of many inspirations for the songs on ''Pretty on the Inside'': "I was blonde, wore makeup, had to support my band by dancing, and had to play this ridiculous archetype at work... so I took, you know, high heels and white pumps, and I had a wiglet—I just took that and messed with it."〔 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「Pretty on the Inside」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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