I don't understand how anyone could dislike this album, I read ALL of the 1 star reviews and many of the consumer's were dissing Hole calling them pop sell outs and other bands like L7 are much better and would never do such an album. I beg to differ... L7's "Bricks Are Heavy" is very polished and more on the lines of "Celebrity Skin" in contrast to anything else they've done.

Am I the only person in America that heard "Pretend We're Dead??" how much more Pop can you get? or "The Masses Are Asses", "Monster", "American Society", "Wargasm" "Diet Pill"? What about all those songs? they're all very "Celebrity Skin" if you ask me.

I bought this album in 2004, I heard of the band and Courtney Love my whole life but I never got around to hearing the band's wickedness until one night... Listening to Launch radio before hitting the sack "Celebrity Skin" was featured on my Radio/Channel. After hearing it I purchased The Full-LENGTH album within a matter of 15 minutes after sampling other tracks of course.

I'm a very late fan, basically when all the fun and hype has faded out and that's fine, It's for my own personal listening pleasures. This album pulled me in drastically, I can't get enough. "Celebrity Skin" "Awful" "Northern Star" "Hit So Hard" "Reasons To Be Beautiful" and My FAVORITE! FAVORITE! FAVORITE! track "Dying" are still songs I run in the ground to this very day.

I play this album like it's brand NEW- What I like most about Courtney Love's voice is how much it reminds me of an Intoxicated Joan Jett. It's gritty and bare. I'm sure some Hard Rock snob would beg to differ but that's their opinion. Overall this is a Rock N Roll SMASH!! and i'm satisfied with it.