History Music / LiveThroughThis

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Someday you will ache like I ache..."'']]

Persistent urban legends claim her late husband Cobain ghostwrote most of the material. Despite this baseless rumor ''Live Through This'' is widely acclaimed, with hit songs like "Violet", "Miss World", "Asking For It", "Rock Star", "Softer, Softest", and "Doll Parts".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Around a 5-7.
* MohScaleOfLyricalHardness: Still incredibly heavy but not as much as their previous work, averaging around a 6-8.

It garnered critical acclaim, sold millions of copies, and even made it into Magazine/RollingStone's Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime list at #460--it was also featured in Magazine/TimeMagazine's 2006 ''[[TimeAllTime100Albums All Time 100 Albums]]''. A big-name fan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #19 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

* {{Mondegreen}}: "Gutless" sounds like "Godless".

It garnered critical acclaim, sold millions of copies, and even made it into Magazine/RollingStone's Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime list at #460--it was also featured in Magazine/TimeMagazine's 2006 ''[[TimeAllTime100Albums All Time 100 Albums]]''. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #19 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

''Live Through This'' is the second album from [[Music/CourtneyLove Hole]], released just four days after Music/KurtCobain's suicide in 1994. It was also their only album with bassist Kristen Pfaff, before she too died of a heroin overdose just two months later.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Violet", "Plump", "I Think That I Would Die", and "Rock Star" have Courtney screaming her lungs out.

* UrbanLegend: To this day rumors circulate that Cobain had written the songs, not Love. This has been denied by everyone who worked on the album. The only proven case of him doing any uncredited ghost-writing was the "Violet" BSide "Old Age", which was later revealed to be a reworking of an unfinished {{Music/Nirvana}} demo.

* FaceOnTheCover: The model Leilani Bishop holding a bouquet, shown in close-up.