Celebrity Skin

Infobox Album
Name = Celebrity Skin
Type = studio
Artist = Hole


Released = September 8, 1998
Recorded = Conway Studios & Record Plant, Los Angeles; Quad Studios, New York City; Olympic Studios, London
Genre = Alternative rock, alternative pop, grunge
Length = 50:23
Label = Geffen
Producer = Michael Beinhorn, Eric Erlandson
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1p851va1zzha~T1 link]
*"Blender" rating|4|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1774 link]
*"NME" (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/hole/91 link]
*"Q" rating|4|5 (September 1998)
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm2 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=587&name=Hole link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hole/albums/album/227169/review/5942887/celebrity_skin link]
Last album = "My Body, The Hand Grenade"
(1997)
This album = "Celebrity Skin"
(1998)
Next album =

"Celebrity Skin" is Hole's fourth and final album, released worldwide on September 7, 1998, and a day later in the United States.

The songs were written by the band, some with the help of Billy Corgan; Courtney Love penned all of the lyrics. The studio work took almost a year and a half, due tofact|date=July 2008 Love's rising movie career, fruitless recording attempts in New Orleans and Nashville in 1997, Corgan's involvement in songwriting and the actual album sessions, between Los Angeles, New York City, London and Miami.

Musicians

*Eric Erlandson – lead guitar
*Courtney Love – vocals, rhythm guitar
*Melissa Auf der Maur – bass, backing vocals
*Samantha Maloney – drums (uncredited)
*Billy Corgan – bass on "Hit So Hard" (uncredited)http://www.kittyradio.com/]
*Craig Armstrong – strings on "Petals" and "Dying"
*David Campbell – strings on "Northern Star"

Maloney played drums after Patty Schemel left the band during the recordings and photo shoots for the album.

Production and post-production

Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson posted several messages on the bulletin board KittyRadio.com about the album's recording sessions:
*Love was allegedly "not caring about" playing her instrument on the record, focusing only on singing and songwriting;
*Corgan played bass on "Hit So Hard";
*Patty Schemel didn't play on the album, though she is credited as a Hole member on the sleeve.

Personnel

Awards and nominations

The album received three nominations at the 41st Grammy Awards: [http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/specials/1999/grammys/bigpicture.html]
Best Rock Album,
Best Rock Song, and
Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group."Malibu" received a Grammy nomination at the 42nd Grammy Awards, for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/04/grammy.noms.01/list.html] The music video for "Malibu" also resulted in a 1999 MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Cinematography for Martin Coppen [http://www.tv.com/hole/person/87852/trivia.html] [http://www.nbc6.net/entertainment/137546/detail.html] [A few years after the music video for "Malibu" was nominated for an MTV Music Award its cinematographer won the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cinematography from the Music Video Production Association. See Waybackdate|site=http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/forum/tv/coppen.shtml|title=Martin Coppen Receives Lifetime Achievement Award For Music Video Cinematography|date=20021227091418]

References and footnotes