The New Album
CELEBRITY SKIN
Released September 8
TRACK LISTING- CELEBRITY SKIN
- AWFUL
- HIT SO HARD
- MALIBU
- REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
- DYING
- USE ONCE AND DESTROY
- NORTHERN STAR
- BOYS ON THE RADIO
- HEAVEN TONIGHT
- PLAYING YOUR SONG
- PETALS
- BEST SUNDAY DRESS
- Pretty On The Inside (Live at Big Day Out)
- Heaven Tonight (Live at Big Day Out)
- Northern Star (Live at Big Day Out)
- Awful (Live at Big Day Out)
- Paradise City (Live at Big Day Out)
- Celebrity Skin (Live at Big Day Out)
Lyrics:
LOVE 
ERLANDSON 
AUF DER MAUR 
SCHEMEL 
CORGAN 
CAFFEY 
ZADOROZNY
CELEBRITY SKIN
Music: Lyrics:
Oh, make my over
I'm all I want to be
A walking study
In demonology
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, so glad you could make it now
Oh, look at my face
My name is might have been
My name is never was
My name's forgotton
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there's only us left now
When I wake up in my makeup
It's too early for that dress
Wilted and faded somewhere in
Hollywood
I'm glad I came here
With your pound of flesh
No second billing cause you're a star now
Oh, Cinderella
They aren't sluts like you
Beautiful garbage beautiful dresses
Can you stand up or will you
just fall down
You better watch out
What you wish for
It better be worth it
So much to die for
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now really made it
Hey, there's only us left now
When I wake up in my makeup
Have you ever felt so used up as this?
It's all so sugarless
Hooker/waitress/model/actress
Oh, just go nameless
Honeysuckle, she's full of poison
She obliterated everything she kissed
Now she's fading
Somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here
With your pound of flesh
You want a part of me
Well, I'm not selling cheap
No, I'm not selling cheap
©1998 Mother May I Music / Echo Echo Tunes (BMI)
AWFUL
Music: Lyrics:
Swing low sweet cherry
Make it awful
It's your life, it's your party, it's so awful
Let's start a fire
Let's have a riot! Yeah it's awful
It was punk
Yeah, it was perfect now it's awful
They know how to break all the girls
like you
And they rob the souls of the girls like you
And they break the hearts of the girls
Swing low, cherry, cherry
Yeah it's awful
He's drunk, he tastes
Like candy, he's so beautiful
He's so deep like dirty water
God, he's awful
You're lost, oh, where's your daddy - it's so awful
And they royalty rate all the girls like you
And they sell it out to the girls like you
To incorporate little girls
Hey, run away with the light
Run away it's divine
Let's run away, yeah, tonight and
We'll steal the light of the world
Swing low, sweet cherry, yeah, it's awful
You're ripe for the picking, it's so awful
You've got your youth
Don't waste your money
Yeah it's awful
I was punk!
Now I'm just stupid!
I'm so awful
Oh, just shut up you're only 16
If the world is so wrong
Yeah you can break them all
With one song
If the world is so wrong yeah you can take
it all
With one song
Swing low sweet cherry
Make it awful
They bought it all, just build a new one,
Make it beautiful...yeah
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
HIT SO HARD
Music: Lyrics:
The one I love I should destroy
My sweet tooth has burned a hole
Forget about it all
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God
He's cold give him a candycoat
He can't swim but he can float
One by one they all fall down
I look at him and drown
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God
He's so candy my downfall
Melts in my mouth, 'til he's nothing at all
This keeps me, I can't sleep
He rages to be true
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God
Oh, man, he hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God
©1998 Mother May I Music / Echo Echo Tunes (BMI)
MALIBU
Music: Lyrics:
Crash and burn
All the stars explode tonight
How'd you get so desperate
How'd you stay alive
Help me please
Burn the sorrow from your eyes
Oh, come on be alive again
Don't lay down and die
Hey, hey
You know what to do
Oh, baby, drive away to Malibu
Get well soon
Please don't go any higher
How are you so burnt when
You're barely on fire
Cry to the angels
I'm gonna rescue you
I'm gonna set you free tonight, baby
Pour over me
Hey, hey
We're all watching you
Oh, baby, fly away to Malibu
Cry to the angels
And let them swallow you
Go and part the sea, yeah, in Malibu
...And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And the sun goes down
I walk into the waves
And I knew
Love would tear you apart
Oh and I knew
The darkest secret of your heart
I'm gonna follow you
Oh baby, fly away, yeah, to Malibu
Oceans of angels
Oceans of stars
Down by the sea is where you
Drown your scars
...I can't be near you
The light just radiates
I can't be near you
The light just radiates...
©1998 Mother May I Music / Echo Echo Tunes (BMI)
REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
Music: Lyrics:
Love hangs herself
With the bedsheets in her cell
Threw myself on fires for you
10 good reasons to stay alive
10 good reasons that I can't find
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Love hates you
I live my life in ruins for you
And for all your secrets kept
I squashed the blossom and the blossom's
dead
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, and I will make myself so beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Miles and miles of perfect skin
I swear I do, I fit right in
My love burns through everything
I cannot breathe
Mile and miles of perfect sin
I swear, I said, I fit right in
I fit right in your perfect skin
I cannot breathe
Hey, baby, take it all the way...down
Hey, baby, taste me anyway
Oh, you were born
So pretty oh summerbabe
We'll never know...
And fading like a rose
Give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
I'll give you my body, just sell me your soul
Oh, and everything I am will be bought
and sold
Oh, and everything I am will turn hard
and cold
And they say in the end
You'll get bitter just like them
And they steal your heart away
When the fire goes out you better learn to fake
It's better to rise than fade away...
Hey you were right
Named a star for your eyes
Did you freeze did you weep
Turn to gold, baby, sleep
Hey honey mine
I was there all the time
And I weep at your feet
And it rains and rains
©1998 Mother May I Music / Satin Doombox / Rondor Music Publishing (BMI) / Stridgirl Music / BMG Songs Inc. (ASCAP)
DYING
Music: Lyrics:
I am so dumb
Just beam me up
I've had it all forever
I've had enough
©1998 Mother May I Music / Echo Echo Tunes (BMI)
USE ONCE AND DESTROY
Music: Lyrics:
It's the emptiness that follows you down
It's the ache inside when it all burns out
It's poisonous it muscles it aches
It's everything you had when it breaks
It's the emptiness that's all you have left
Too terrified of your frozen breath
It's a bitter mouth it's buttered and knived
It's the awful truth you fight for your life
It might as well it might as well hurt
It might as well it might as well
I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
Fill you hungry wretched life
Here they come it's closing time
It's the bitter root it's twisted inside
It's the heart you used to have when it died
It's the emptiness it poisons it lies
It's everything that you'll never find
It might as well it might as well hurt
It might as well it might as well
I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains
Take your rapture blister burns
Stand in line it's not your turn
All dressed in red, always the bride
Off with her head, all dressed in white
Off with her head
I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains
Ooh, I will follow you
Anytime anywhere
Ooh, I will come for you
Just say you aren't there
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
NORTHERN STAR
Music: Lyrics:
And I cry and no one can hear
Inhale
The blinded eyes that see
The chaos
Bring the pitiful to me
Even though I'm wide-awake, I will,
& blackest night & I wait for you
It's cold in here there's no one left
& I wait for you
& nothing stops it happening
& I knew, I'd cherish all my misery alone
And I wait staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead me anywhere,
He's so cold he will ruin the world tonight
All the angels kneel into the Northern Lights
Kneel into the frozen lights
And they paid, I cry and cry for you
Ghosts that haunt you with their sorrow
I cried 'cause you were doomed
Praying to the wound that swallows
All that's cold and cruel
Can you see the trees, charity and gratitiude
They run to the pines
It's black in here blot out the sun
& run to the pines
Our misery runs wild and free
& I knew, the fire and the ashes of his grace...
And I wait staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you very far
He's so cold he will win the world tonight
All the angels kneel into the frozen lights
Feel their hearts they're cold and white
And I want you
And blessed are the broken
And I beg you
No loneliness, no misery is worth you
Oh tear his heart out cold as ice it's mine
And I wait praying to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you anywhere
He's so cold raining on the world tonight
All the angels kneeling to the Northern Lights
And I pray begging to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you anywhere
He's so cold he will rule the world tonight
All the angels kneeling to the Northern Lights
Kneeling to the frozen lights
Feel their hearts they're cold as ice.....VELUT
INTER-IGNIS-LUNA-MINOR
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
BOYS ON THE RADIO
Music: Lyrics:
Oh the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow
In your endless summer night
I'll be on the other side
When you're beautiful and dying
All the world that you've denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight
Your beauty blinds
If I let you in, under my skin
And risen every angel slain
I know what you are running to
Please come back, oh, come back again
I hear the truth
It's coming from you
Oh come back, won't come back again
In your endless summer night
I'll be on the other side
When the water is too deep
I will ease your suffering
When the glitter fades in morning
Turn away and you will find my empty eyes
Your beauty blinds
I know that you are rotten to the core
I know that you don't love me anymore
I know that you are rotten to the core
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
HEAVEN TONIGHT
Music: Lyrics:
I feel the horses
Coming galloping
I will never grow old
I'll go to heaven tonight
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
PLAYING YOUR SONG
Music: Lyrics:
Hey you, you're way ahead of me
You're drunk on apathy
You burned right out
Hey you, you're just a cripple now
They sell for millions now
They sold you out
And, oh, I had to tell them you were gone
I had to tell them they were wrong
And now they're playing your song
Hey you, don't take it out on me
You're bored of everything
You burned right out
Hey you, so bored and cynical
It's fucking wonderful
They sold you out
And, oh, they've bought and sold it all,
it's gone
They've taken it and built a mall
And now they're playing your song
Ooh, their innocence tastes like candy, yeah
Get so fat on it, it's a tragedy, yeah
Ooh, I can help you come to me, yeah
Just bring your innocence to me, yeah
Hey you, don't you dare blame me
You trusted everthing
Hey, you, now when they call it cool
It's just so mean and cruel
They sold you out
And, oh, they bought and sold it all, it's gone
And every note of it is wrong
And now they're playing your song
©1998 Mother May I Music (BMI)
PETALS
Music: Lyrics:
Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
All the darling buds of May
They fall with no sound
They carry you down
They carry you down
All the lilies bloomed and blossomed
Wilted and they're shivering
I can't stop their withering
Oh, this world is a war
©1998 Mother May I Music / Echo Echo Tunes (BMI)
*NOTE: Full lyrics are not included in the CD jacket for the following songs: "Dying," "Boys On The Radio," "Heaven Tonight," and "Petals".
Here is some info and promotional photos from Geffen Records Inc.:
BAND TO PERFORM TITLE TRACK AT MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS SEPT. 10
Celebrity Skin (DGC Records), the third album from Hole, will make its debut Sept. 8. Named one of the "most anticipated records of 1998" by Alternative Press (January 1998), it’s the follow-up to 1994’s platinum Live Through This. That disc was deemed "Album of the Year" by Rolling Stone, Spin and the prestigious Village Voice critics poll.
Whereas Live Through This took a step forward in terms of craft from the band’s debut album, Pretty on the Inside, Celebrity Skin makes a leap. Hole’s songs continue to mine a vein of cynicism and irony, but they are now leavened by more optimistic ideals.
Celebrity Skin is also more diverse than its predecessors, with quiet, contemplative ballads taking their place alongside the customarily aggressive rock outings. Acoustic guitar and strings bring new textures to the band’s sonic palette. Sharing the credit for these advances is producer Michael Beinhorn, who oversaw Soundgarden’s Superunknown, Soul Asylum’s Grave Dancer’s Union and The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Mother’s Milk.
Hole was formed by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson in Los Angeles in late 1989. In the early ‘90s, the band moved their base of operations to Seattle. Their return to Los Angeles is reflected in the themes woven throughout Celebrity Skin, recorded at L.A.’s Conway Studios, as well as in its look: The packaging features images of the Malibu fires and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. In making the city their muse, Hole uphold a tradition established by The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Jane’s Addiction and X.
Appropriately, the band will mount their first live performance of material from Celebrity Skin in Los Angeles, playing the song "Celebrity Skin" (the first radio track from the record) at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 10.
The Celebrity Skin track listing is as follows: "Celebrity Skin," "Awful," "Hit So Hard," "Malibu," "Reasons to Be Beautiful," "Dying," "Use Once and Destroy," "Northern Star," "Boys on the Radio," "Heaven Tonight," "Playing Your Song," "Petals."
©1998 Geffen Records, Inc.
Album notes:
"This record is dedicated to all the stolen water of Los Angeles and to anyone who ever drowned."
Produced by Michael Beinhorn
Engineered by Paul Northfield
Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge except "Malibu," "Reasons To Be Beautiful," "Northern Star," and "Heaven Tonight" mixed by Chris Lord-Alge and "Hit So Hard" mixed by Jack Joseph Puig
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Additional Production: Eric Erlandson
Recorded at Conway Studios, Los Angeles
Assistant Engineer: John Nelson
Additional recording at Quad Studios NYC, Olympic Studios London, Record Plant L.A.
Additional engineering by Rob Eaton, Frank Filipetti, Joe Barresi
Additional assistant engineers: Ann Mincieli, Ben Holt, P Dub Walton, Jan Kybert
Transfers at Right Track NYC
Mixed at South Beach Studios, Miami
Assistant Mix Engineers: Leo Herrera, Femio Hernandez
Additional mixing at Image Recording L.A. and Ocean Way Recording L.A.
Additional Assistant Mix Engineers: Rob Hoffman, Mike Dy, Jim Champagne
Strings, etc: David Campbell ("Northern Star"), Craig Armstong ("Petals," "Dying")
Programming: Michael Beinhorn, Paul DeCarli, Max Risenhoofer, Chris Vrenna, Nick Franglen
Studio Tech: Chris Whitemyer (guitars and drums)
Special Thanks to Mark "Spike" Stent
A & R: Jim Barber
Management: Q Prime, Inc.
Legal: Codikow, Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP
Art Direction: Joe Mama-Nitzberg, & Janet Wolsborn
Front Cover: Guzman
Back Cover: Ophelia (Paul Steck, 1895): Giraudon / Art Resource, New York
Malibu Fire Photo by Maggie Hallahan / networkimages.com
DWP Photo: Richard Prince
Black & White Booklet Photo: ©1998 Robert Dawson / Swanstock
Ballet Slippers: Vicki Berndt
Disc Image: Jim Hodges
Executive Muse: Courtney Love
HOLE IS: ERIC ERLANDSON, COURTNEY LOVE, MELISSA AUF DER MAUR, PATTY SCHEMEL
Courtney thanks Echo & The Bunnymen, Stevie Nicks, Janet Billig, The City of Seattle, Wendy, Kim, Brienne, Miss Joan Crawford, Daisy, Nan and Gwen, Loretta Hogg and Eva Bombay, Leonard Cohen, Smithsonian Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music, The City of Roses, Milos Forman and The Czech Republic, Woody, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa & Master Hong Liu & Nichiren Shoshu, Sister Wende Martin, Ron Anderson, Seth Riggs, PMK, Steve Dontanville, Ed Limato, Mike Wren & Joe Takemini, Danny & Rosemary.... & my two Beautiful Lions.
Eric would like to thank his Family (the evergrowing Erlandson clan), Drew, Bifida, Falsh, Pat McCarthy, Pat Smear (those guitars!), Christiane Steffan, Mark Kates, Dean Castronovo, Bill, Mo, Peter, Elisa, Doug, Nichiren Shoshu, Os Mutantes, San Pedro, Sweden, Serge Moog Bode Burns Veleno Watkins, and everyone else involved in the recording of his album and those who helped my stay alive while I made it... To the memory of Theodore
Melissa: To my parents Linda Gaboriau and Nick Auf der Maur, I love you, and Nick, I miss you. Endless kisses to Grandpa Johnson et milles baisers Herve & Yves deFontenay. Love to the inspirational Grandma Auf der Maur. If it weren't for Fender and Ampeg, what would I play with? Thank you Tanda T. and Christiane S. for all your support. Countless friends... H.J.T., L.C.D., M.R.S., S.S.F, C.C., S.D., F.B., K.Mc., R.W., J.M., T.B.M., M.K., D.H., R.H., A.B., M.S.... hugs & thanks. Love to Dayton and J.F. & T.T.
Plus the ladies and gentlemen of Montreal, thanks for being there.
Patty thanks The Schemel Family, Carla Bozulich, Maggie Tuch, DW Drums, Zildjan Cymbals, Promark Sticks.
Hole wishes to thank Brian Celler
Hole, P.O. Box 880790, San Francisco, CA 94188-0790
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this recording goes to the Kristin Pfaff Memorial Fund and M.A.P.
The catalog number is 25164 and the UPC code is 72064251642
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