Pretty on the Inside

Infobox Album
Name = Pretty on the Inside
Type = Album
Artist = Hole


Released = September 17 1991
Recorded = Music Box Studios, L.A.
Genre = Alternative rock, Grunge
Length = 38:31
Label = Caroline
Producer = Kim Gordon, Don Fleming
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bmf8zfiheh5k~T1 link]
*Blender Magazine Rating|2|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1772 link]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm3 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=587&name=Hole link]
Last album =
This album = "Pretty on the Inside"
(1991)
Next album = "Live Through This"
(1994)

"Pretty on the Inside" is Hole's first album, released in 1991 by Caroline Records.The recording took place at L.A.'s Music Box Studios.With Sonic Youth's bassist Kim Gordon and Gumball's leader Don Fleming in charge of production, the studio work took only four days. The album features a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (credited as "Clouds") and two noise suites: "Sassy" and "Starbelly" as well as an overall strong punk rock influence.The only single taken from the album was "Teenage Whore", which went into Number 1 in the U.K. Indie charts in late 1991. Only one video was made to a song on the album, "Garbadge Man". Both the bassist, Jill Emery and the drummer, Caroline Rue, left the band after the release of the album.

The album has sold 204,000 copies in the U.S. and 400,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

"All songs written by Hole."

#"Teenage Whore" – 2:57
#"Babydoll" – 4:59
#"Garbadge Man" – 3:19
#"Sassy" – 1:43
#"Good Sister/Bad Sister" – 5:47
#"Mrs. Jones" – 5:25
#"Berry" – 2:46
#"Loaded" – 4:19
#"Star Belly" – 1:46
#"Pretty on the Inside/Clouds" – 5:25:Some albums separate "Pretty on the Inside" and "Clouds" as separate tracks.

Personnel

*Jill Emery - bass
*Eric Erlandson - guitar
*Courtney Love - guitar, vocals
*Caroline Rue - drums

Production

*Producers: Kim Gordon and Don Fleming
*Engineer: Brian B-Sly Foxworthy
*Photography: Vicki Berndt

Trivia

*The voice recording that plays in "Sassy" is from an answering machine message left by Inger Lorre of the Nymphs.
*"Starbelly" is based on the main riff of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl", and features a cassette-played excerpt from "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac and an early recording of "Best Sunday Dress" by The Pagan Babies, one of Love's earlier bands with Kat Bjelland. The latter would be redone and re-recorded by Hole in 1998
*'Clouds' is a cover version of the Joni Mitchell hit Both Sides Now, complete with altered lyrics and title.
*The back cover artwork was painted by Jill Emery, Hole's bassist at the time.
*Courtney Love gargled whiskey during the recording sessions to give a raw edge to her vocals