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Pretty on the Inside
Studio album by Hole
Released	September 17, 1991
Recorded	Music Box Studios, L.A.
Genre	Grunge
Length	38:31
Label	Caroline
Producer	Kim Gordon, Don Fleming
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Blender Magazine link Robert Christgau (***) link
Hole chronology
Pretty on the Inside (1991) Live Through This (1994)

Pretty on the Inside is Hole's first album, released in 1991 by Caroline Records. The recording took place at in 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". 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.

At last count, in 1995, Pretty on the Inside has sold more than 30,000 copies.

All songs written by Hole.

1. "Teenage Whore" – 2:57
2. "Babydoll" – 4:59
3. "Garbadge Man" – 3:19
4. "Sassy" – 1:43
5. "Good Sister/Bad Sister" – 5:47
6. "Mrs. Jones" – 5:25
7. "Berry" – 2:46
8. "Loaded" – 4:19
9. "Star Belly" – 1:46
10. "Pretty on the Inside/Clouds" – 5:25

Some albums separate Pretty on the Inside and Clouds as separate tracks.

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

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

• The voice recording that plays in "Sassy" is from an answering machine message left by Inger Lorre.
• "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, and "Rhiannon" would be featured in a comeback performance by Courtney Love in 2006.
• 'Clouds' is a cover version of the Joni Mitchell hit Both Sides Now, complete with altered lyrics and title.
• The name of the song "Garbadge Man" is intentionally misspelled. A 1991 Hole concert review by Everett True clearly stated the grammatical error[1] and the original register at BMI for copyright collect also feature the "D" in "Garbadge". [2]
• 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