10 Best Rock Album Openers Of The 1990s
7. Celebrity Skin - Hole (Celebrity Skin)
The Nirvana connections keep on coming, as attention to turns to the late Kurt Cobain's wife and her band.
Courtney Love and the rest of Hole took four years to follow up on the success of their album Live Through This, but fans were more than happy to welcome their return.
Celebrity Skin achieved the highest chart finish of any Hole album and gave the band arguably their most famous song - the title track.
That might be why it was chosen to open it up.
The song Celebrity Skin was a co-write between Love, guitarist Eric Erlandson, and the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan. It was he who came up with the song's iconic riff, according to Love herself.
Courtney Love getting on with another musician? Surely not!
As you might have guessed, the song is all about being famous and the level of fakeness that comes with it. It takes its name from a celebrity pornography magazine, which should give you an idea of how Love felt about the matter.
Well-written, catchy, and very of the era, Celebrity Skin stands out as Hole's biggest track for a very good reason.