10 Worst Villains Of Rock And Roll Music

As much as it changed music overnight, the grunge revolution doesn't get nearly enough credit for the amount of diversity that it had in its ranks. Though far from being the genre fluid songs that we have nowadays, the likes of Pearl Jam and Nirvana had some much darker topics to discuss, from the criticism of women's lack of rights coming from Kurt Cobain or teen suicide on Jeremy. Then again, all of those become irrelevant when you focus on the riot grrl in the middle of things.

That's not even to disparage Courtney Love's band Hole, whose album Live Through This stands as one of the classics of the '90s. No, the problem here is Ms. Love herself, who inadvertently branded herself as the Yoko Ono of her generation. Finding herself in relationships with everyone from Kurt Cobain to Trent Reznor, her star power since 1995 has not been all that pleasant, with many people considering her a fame chaser and only looking for attention for her outlandish statements.

Granted, some of them can get pretty tasteless, like the theory that she originally tried to have Cobain killed shortly before his suicide, but that doesn't diminish her anti-star power over the years. As far as the hierarchy of alternative rock is concerned, the case of Courtney Love is proof of just how far you can fall after being on the top of the food chain.