The Polack MSgt

The Polack MSgt's Journal

March 19, 2020

Remember Hole? Remember how much shit was sprayed at Courtney Love?

Let me tell ya, it bothered me quite a bit then, and it still does.

Well, I'm exiled to the living room and since I have nothing but time and high speed internet - I'm gonna learn yinz something.

Hole was a fantastic band and Courtney was a great song writer who never got the respect she earned.

If you have to separate your preconceptions from these actual songs, maybe play them in a separate tab without watching the videos. Just listen please.

To me that was the hardest part of this argument - No one would listen to her.

They'd see her face, get unreasonably angry and mutter some misguided bullshit about Kurt Cobain.

As if a depressed junky committing suicide is somehow a shocking indictment of the junky's spouse. An event that somehow disqualifies her from a fair shot at success.

So FFS it's a couple decades later now - So just listen

I believe that Courtney took the bullets for a decade's worth of women rockers and that allowed folks like the The Donnas, Garbage, Veruca Salt, and The Breeders to operate without the normal misogyny Rock and Roll puts in women's way.

She was like the Zinc Plate between a ships impeller and it's driveshaft. It's there to get corroded and in so doing protect the other components

She took the damage. It was awful