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Ask for It

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I love this recording. It's a lot like Pretty On the Inside or Live Through This, so don't think it's gonna be like that Celebrity Skin crap. If this were longer and had tracks like Baby doll or Burn Black it'd be better than Live Through This. This represents Hole truefully, even better than POTI does. It has decent artwork. I'm gonna give a review for each song:

Over the Edge- I own this same version on a specialty bootleg, so no surprise, it's a great cover. Played nicely & has great lyrics. Great riffs. Pale Blue Eyes- I own this song, too, on a specialty bootleg, It's live and is from a great artist, Lou Reed, very nice live version, although not like original. Drown Soda- This is a totally awesome song w/ nice lyrics. Deserved better attention than it got. (Buying this cd is worth this song alone). Greatest song on cd, one of Hole's best, one of the best songs ever. Dollparts- an older different version. Almost as good as the one on LTT, so an awesome (one of best Hole songs) song that everyone knows. Acoustic. Violet- Not as much screaming as original, which is strange cuz' it's an old version. A bit different than that of Ltt, but it's still very good. Forming/Hot Chocolate Boy- Not only are they both covers w/ good names, they are combined into one song. The forming part is better. This song has interesting lyrics. A part of it seems to remind one of New Wave, but it's a raw rock song like the rest. It has a great beginning and end.

Only complaint: way too short. About 18 min. long!! So, everyone buy it. Especially Hole fans. Great introduction to people who have never heard Hole.

You MUST buy this EP for three reasons 1) The gorgeous record cover 2) The first recorded rendition of Drown Soda which then reappears in a lot of different ways 3) The song "pale blue eyes" -which was once a nice relatively quiet ballad- and listen to Courtney and the rest of Hole thrash the living daylights out of it. You listen to it and remember not so long before she sang this song which is obviously dedicated Kurt, her husband, the father of her child, her love of her life, her soulmate shot himself in the head. And to make it all that much worse his body was found a day before her second album, the first big label debut "Live Through This" was released. Just listen to it. You will suddenly remember all the rubbish about her killing him, and all the horrible things that was said. And all that absolute anguish is mixed into her voice, her soul at that very moment. And you can't believe she is performing. With the added madness of the band, Kirsten, Eric's lover and base player of the band ODs on Heroin less than a month later. There you have it. Patty bashing away at her anger, and Eric ramming the strings together as everything has fallen apart. This is the Courtney as she was in 1994. Druged up, Falling apart. Before the Vanity Fair Cover, the Big Hollywood studios makeover. Her own healing. This was CL at her rawest moment, her most down. And although you don't hope she will ever go down that again. Just to have it, just to listen to it. You will be just so glad you have a recording of it.

This cd is wonderful......OVER THE EDGE is an awesome cover song,and of course its better then the original,PALE BLUE EYES is a fun punk rock live version song and it is beautiful.....but for some reason when its loud it just burns your ears,i think because it was a live recording so beware,DOLL PARTS whatever version is a more raw and faster version then the first and can make you cry.....DROWN SODA is the best song on the cd...she makes you feel her pain..without a doubt..VIOLET the older version is kinda muffled but it is alot more raw and wrenching.....its good too...then FORMING/HOT CHOCOLOTTE BOY is really punky and poppy at the same time.....great!!GET THE ALBUM......IT WILL MAKE YOU LOOK AT THEIR OLD AND NEW WORK DIFFERENTLY.

Smoking-gun proof that, contrary to the sexist canard, Courtney Love is NOT a talentless, Macbethian rhymes-with-witch who piggybacked on St. Kurt's fame. Best songs are the blusey "Drown Soda" and a version of "Doll Parts" that bears a chilling resemblence to NEBRASKA by Bruce Springsteen. The remarkable thing is that all these occured before LIVE THROUGH THIS!!!

Although this EP was released in 1995, all the songs were recorded eariler with the original Hole lineup. It shows a transformation of a band just on the edge of breaking into the mainstream. The first track 'Over the Edge' (originally done by The Wipers) is the best song the EP. It's poppy and punky at the same time. Next is a live cover of Velvet Underground's 'Pale Blue Eyes'. Courtney's voice sounds ragged and the sound quality isn't the best. Then we get an early version of 'Drown Soda' which is mediocre compared to the live version on 'My Body, the Hand Grenade'. Early versions of 'Doll Parts' and 'Violet' date back from 1991, proving there is no way Kurt could have wrote those songs. Lastly 'Forming/Hot Chocolate Boy' is two covers rolled into one: Beat Happening's 'Hot Chocolate Boy' and the Germs 'Forming'. This EP is a definite must-have for Hole fans. Don't let the disturbing cover distract you from buying it.

Right from the start,the album sucks you in and no matter how you try and fight it,you can't get out.I bought this Hole album about4 or so years ago,and it's a regular in my CD player.Everytime I hear "Over the Edge", undoubtedly my fave track on the record,it's like I'm hearing it for the first time.You know,when you get that little thrill when you hear the first power chords.it may be a remake of a Wipers song,written by Greg Sage,but Hole makes it their own.Another great cover track is "Forming/Hot Chocolate Boy",which sounds so hyper and crazed that by the time the just-over-one-minute track ends,you find yourself wishing to a higher power that it indeed was much longer.The demo version of "Violet,"recorded in 1991,is very different from the version that appeared on "Live Through This",with more of a stripped down,slower-tempo feel and is terrific.The acoustic demo "Doll Parts" isnt as strong as the LTT version,but it still takes the cake.The other two tracks,an early version of "Drown Soda" and a cover of "Pale Blue Eyes"arent too memorable for me,although "Pale Blue Eyes" is played live at the Whiskey,and is very raw and personal.I recommend this CD,its absolutely great.The Photo inside the booklet is of an early publicity shot of Hole,with Courtney,Eric,Jill Emery,and Caroline Rue-the original Hole lineup.Also,the back cover photo of the band shows Courtney looking positively gorgeous,very blank and spacy looking. It was before she started looking real "grunge" and just looked very cool punk rock.buy it!

I can't give this CD five stars because it's not an actual album (like thier three studio masterpieces), but four stars is pretty good. It's a handful of rough takes, bar performances, and radio sessions. The sound quality is B-, which is still good, and each song is great. You can feel Miss Love breathing down your neck. Add to that the fact that you can't get them anywhere else (except for Over The Edge, available on a Greg Sage/Wipers tribute album). Great CD.

There is only one way to stuff so much energy, emotion, love, hate, feeling, pain, and just pure rock in one CD, that is through Courtney Love. There are moments when she screams like she is filled with anger, or times like she is about to cry, and times when every last bit of her energy is being thwarted at you full blast. There is nothing better than when an artist gives you everything in her soul when she preforms and Courtney sure does it on "Ask for It". If you don't have it, don't ask for it, go the hell out and get it.

I think that this c.d is one of Hole's greatest. I can listen to Pale Blue Eyes over and over. I can actually listen to all of the songs over and over. Ask for It is the first Hole c.d. that I bought, and now I have all of them. What does that tell you about first impressions?

This is another must have. Half great covers, one perviously unreleased track, and different versions of 'Violet', and 'Doll Parts'. Drown Soda, the pre-unreleased track is amazing. Eric's slide guitar work in this song is amazing. It's deffinatly one of the most beautiful Hole songs. The covers are great as usual. For under 10 bucks, why not?? It's worth every penny.