Celebrity Skin. For me, (and most people who know me would never suspect that I ever listened to this much less own it, but I do,) is a very good commercial Rock Album, with songs from a woman who had finally grown up, but still alienated.

The tunesmithing, vocals and musicianship, all show a huge amount of maturity over earlier outings for Hole, and this remains my favorite, as I have to be in the right mood to appreciate the older stuff, but I still do, albeit rarely.

It is too bad (to me) that the flack Ms. Love received as being a sell out for making a more mature and more commercial CD resulted in her going back to the teen-age anger by the time "America's Sweetheart" came out, which just comes across as an angry middle aged woman who doesn't get it. But here in "Celebrity Skin" the raw emotions are tempered with well crafted music, and ironically pretty vocals.

I hope that one day Ms. Love may grow up for good and all and make this kind of album again.

But that's just me