Olympia (Rockstar)- Hole

[dubspell]

she will always be my desktop background haha <3

[vampireravefan]

i love how this song is still relevant. she wrote it about riot grrls, but i sorta see it talking about hispters nowadays

[xxxilenooo]

reeell band punk rock blanco ese ke dicen los gringos !!!

[allaboutmafalda]

Miss this band, good old girl rock ;D

[PinkCherryLipstick]

Courtney rocks! :DDD

[biggusdikkus88]

U-Mass note for note lol

[blahbluebird]

I go to school in olympia :D

[evilcraig359]

Melvins



[DisappointingPorn]

If you say "Courtney Love" 3x in the mirror, in the dark, she'll come to you in the night and flash her floppy titties at you. FACT. O_O

[punkrockrules8]

mítica, no ha llovido desde entonces..

temazo

[Deinbeck]

this album is undrrappreciated

[mlc2005]

@Deinbeck: Maybe now, but in 1994 Rolling Stone and New York TImes called it the best album of the year. Critics loved it, and it sold 2 million copies, so I'd say it was appreciated :) But I know what you mean.

[Julian911riot]

FUCK THE SCHOOL IS BULLSHIT!

[sugarandspice4815]

This song was too awesome for the radio.

[tallcoolonejojo0990]

Haha this was written as a poke at the Riot Grrrls, esp Bikini Kill (Kathleen Hanna in particular, she doesnt like her at all.) Hole is NOT Riot Grrrl, and she has stated that many times. Kinderwhore was not born out of Riot Grrrl. Riot Grrrl was a young feminist underground political movement in the early 90s that had its own soundtrack and involved meetings and such. Hole was not involved.

[ViolaMcviolet]

@tallcoolonejojo0990 Yup. I can't figure out why people don't seem to have that figured out. Lived in Oly back in the day, and looooooove this song. Heard it the first time when I had gotten home and knew exactly what it was about.

[tallcoolonejojo0990]

@ViolaMcviolet The idea is that everyone in Olympia is the same because of their cutesy kiddie style of fashion and the fact that they cant play instruments to save their lives. Everyone thinks that because they were contemporaries that Hole is part of the movement. In case they havent noticed, Hole is still around. Bikini Kill and the other "Riot Grrrl" bands are not. Babes in Toyland (Kat Bjelland's band) was also NOT part of Riot Grrrl. Do your research, people!

[geleyadorock]

god, i love this song

[telltalemse]

@MonyVibescu1919 haha cmon to say that these songs are nirvana's is an insult to nirvana. courtney even said it herself - if kurt had written them they would've been better. this is total courtney - messy, and its all about her screaming/anger, her lyrics can be senseless whereas Kurt's are very different and usually not lacking in meaning. And nirvana was also made up of Dave Grohl, hello. Do the drums here sound at all like something Dave would compose?

[anahouda1]

yea nice screammm love her

[sniegaviirs24]

the best Hole album, shitttt yeahhh 

[Nubias]

1 good song,a few mediocre ones,overrated Wench..

[mzleezie]

love this tune xxx always xxx

[kayashiva]

@MonyVibescu1919 true words!



[nicolina429]

Learning to play this on guitar. Love it! <3

[swiftymiles]

a few years late, but this should be in the breakfast club aha

[SpitfireDramaQueen]

fucking KILLER intro- Courtney, I love you!!!!

[SuperPinklover1]

Good bye. :D

[BinkaMinka]

I just bought this album! :] I love it!

[simoblood111]

@MonyVibescu1919 Wow he released 'in utero' 4 months before his death so he must of had a twin to release this one too!

[MsBrookeisme]

LOVE HOLE!!!! Best band! I love the anger in Courtney's voice!!!

[PulpFictionFTW88]

@MsBrookeisme

No,but they're okay.

[C7NATIONARMY]

@PulpFictionFTW88 If by okay you mean GREAT than yes you're right!

[NirvanaNerd364]

@MsBrookeisme Yeah i love screaming like that

[blacksyrupkills]

I love this song. It's how I feel about the world that's caught up in mainstream music.

[JaymzStarBlanket]

So powerful when her voice cracks while saying "revolution"

[MeixcanSeafo0d]

kurt wrote this album.

[kitzyx]

@MeixcanSeafo0d No he didn't, they sound familiar because they influenced off of each other, think about it. you're married to another lyricist, don't you think you would get ideas off of each other?

[alotofcheese76]

@MeixcanSeafo0d JESUS GO AWAY, STOP IT, THIS SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE NIRVANA OR KURT COBAIN GO BACK TO YOUR ANTI-COURTNEY CONSPIRACY WEBSITES AND POST SHIT THERE. SORRY SHE DID HAVE TALENT GO LISTEN TO PRETTY ON THE INSIDE.

[su79nioj]

@alotofcheese76 Kurt wrote the riff for this song. He swapped it with one of Courtney's riffs that later became 'All Apologies' (or so he claimed in an interview).

[alotofcheese76]

@su79nioj and? I don't know what your replying to but if it has something to so with kurt writing her songs he didn't write her songs lol

[su79nioj]

@alotofcheese76 I replied to your comment lol.

[bobvillain]

@alotofcheese76 apparently Kurt played and sang secretly for her?

[alotofcheese76]

@bobvillain  the people who think that she killed kurt tend to also believe that he wrote all of her music

[bobvillain]

@alotofcheese76 apparently...... I can see that he may have HELPED her write songs somewhat, they were husband and wife after all..... But I don't see anyone's mother paying to have their father killed just for a publicity boost.....

[alotofcheese76]

@bobvillain Lol I know people are really irrational

[freeradt]

@alotofcheese76 AND THEY ALSO THINK THAT EVERYTHING THE MEDIA REPORTS IS TRUE....WELL IT IS RIGHT? LOL ...DUMB, DUMB, DUMB... TRY NOT TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THEM...THEY ARE SO NOT WORTH THE ENERGY WE CAN USE ON SO MANY OTHER AWESOME THINGS... HATERS - GO - AWAY

[freeradt]

@alotofcheese76 PEOPLE ARE STUPID BABE, DON'T LET 'EM GET TO YOU. THOSE HATERS DON'T HAVE A CLUE MUCHLESS AN EAR FOR TALENT OR GOOD MUSIC. PLUS THEY BELIEVE EVERYTHING THEY HEAR/READ FROM THE MEDIA - OH YEAH, I DID JUST MENTION THEY R STUPID. LOL..SORRY FOR MY REDUNDANCY. HOLE LIVES ON SO FK THE IDIOTS OUT THERE!

[alotofcheese76]

@freeradt haha yeah

[codeaires]

I think it was really gutsy of Courtney to criticize the Olympia scene during this time - what started out as a revolution that gave birth to Riot Grrl just became another scene for conformity.

[TheJisaacson]

nice i do too lol

[UndeadAuto]

I go to school in Olympia haha nothing special

[ThePuppetgirl12]

my fav line we even fuck the same !!!!!!! how would she know..

??????????????????????how would one know how they fuck

if they could never be on the receiving end of ones of self ?? lol

[nicolina429]

@ThePuppetgirl12 that, my friend, is what makes Courtney amazing! <3

[dodge19jka]

this song reminds me of Nirvana so much...

[youshotandywarhol]

@Bobjb999, you're right, Courtney's got connections everywhere. Born in California, raised in Oregon, moved throughout England, Ireland, and Japan when she was 16 and 17, and went up and down the West Coast of the US between Portland and Los Angeles, briefly to Minneapolis, up to Alaska, and back to Cali. She's seriously been ALL OVER the place. I live in Portland, and it's well-known that she lived here for a long time. She stripped at a bunch of clubs here when she was young and met Kurt here

[courtneydollparts]

i love this song so not nice so raw i love this album

[DJG009]

I thought she was saying "well i went to school an olympian" lol

[youshotandywarhol]

@originalsn743651: Courtney didn't go to Olympia high school. This song is essentially making fun of the riot grrrls in Olympia. "Went to school" is alluding to their feminist "schooling" and how Courtney thought they were phony. She never lived in Washington before she met Kurt, she grew up in Oregon, and she bounced around Europe before coming back to Oregon. She was a Portlander, and that was where she first met Kurt. She moved to L.A. where she ended up forming Hole in '89.

[Bobjb999]

@youshotandywarhol Hey, you left out her Canadian connection! She said she likes BC. She used to visit her Dad who lived on Bowen Island near Vancouver, BC, before their fatal falling out.

[originalsn743651]

I forgot Courtney Love went to my high school (Olympia HS). Why wasn't this our fight song?

[demonhoopa]

@originalsn743651 Probably because of the whole "we even fucked the same" thing. LOL

[poppinkbotox1]

when i went to school, in olympiaaaa, and everyones the same WHAT DO YOU DO, WITH A REVOLUTION?!!?!!?!?!!?!!?

i always failed attempting to scream on this bit LOL.

[tiffani187]

when i went 2 school in philadelphia...we look the same, we talk the same...we even fuck the same....

[oOXenaOo]

AHHHH I bought tickets to see Hole and Manson and she ditched! :( Wish I'd been able to see HOLE *sniff*

[newrealization12]

This is why I love hole and Courtney Love. The start of this song is so brilliant. It captures exactly how I feel about being at school, so awkward. Courtney has a horrible reputation. And really IDGAF. Shes a mess and I relate to that.

[TheNirvanagurl]

Courtney has the most amazing scream!

[DeLarger]

Long live Cobain.

[BETTYPOISON1]

one of my fav ever! :)

[Nirvana95L]

Du pure rock <3

Superbe chanson

[popartjunkie]

i get to go back to school tomorrow and i live/go to school in olympia.

[sudsysarahjane]

Its not big hole, Its not slopy hole, its not hairy hole.

Its just hole.

-Courtney Love.

[stormtrooper253]

I like this version version better : )

[dabiggbossdave]

the way she screams the chorus is so raw and powerful i fucking love it!!! best. album. ever.

[AyahuaskaPop]

Me encanta este track!, putos!

[moonman60]

A great tune, a universal sign of raw taste.

[Jojos25]

and the good thing about hole's music is that it's poppy but not commercial. there a lot of bands doing stuff like hole's, i mean, punk pop, but they are commercial and they suck. the sound and the studio production kill the ears.

they should learn from this.

[Jojos25]

amazing song.

[gfjhbvs]

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doin IT OK

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[kalyfornia05]

rOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOoOoooooocK StaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaa­aaAR ♫♪♫♪♪♫

[EpicNoodle1]

@ADELEisMONEY If you talk shit publicly expect a public response, If you can't take that you should shut the fuck up.

[Uzzie101]

Great Nickelback cover!

[reverendrichard]

@Uzzie101 you stupid

[Uzzie101]

@reverendrichard you have no sence of ironry or sarcasam...you stupid.

[bubblyanarchist77]

Screaming along with courtney is sooo liberating :D

[vampireravefan]

i love this song!

[c2bed]

@ADELEisMONEY Hah, what the fuck ever, you sad, poor girl. ALSO, do you really think anyone approves of your condoning of suicide? Courtney would fuck you up. TITS OR GTFO.

[c2bed]

@ADELEisMONEY Hah, std-infested whore.

[Minnexyz]

cool tune

[weeddave420]

luvnotes you rock for posting this whole lp. <3

[c2bed]

This song is not Rock Star, it's Olympia.

[gonemushrooming]

we discussed this song in my Pop Culture of the 20th century class in context to the 90's and the grunge scene. And I really like this song, despite the rep Courtney Love has gotten over the years.

[MsKurtCobainn]

did courtney go to school in olympia?

[choppersteve22]

karls head is so fucking round 

[thoseanarchopunx]

I thought this song was called Olympia o.o

[ethansloan]

@thoseanarchopunx The song is called Olympia. It replaced a song called Rockstar. It had to be pulled at the last minute because of Kurt's "suicide." Rockstar has lines like "How'd you like to be Nirvana/I'd rather die." However the album covers had already been printed, so Rockstar is still listed on the album in place of Olympia.

[thoseanarchopunx]

@ethansloan Oh okay, thanks (:

[catalunarocks]

I go to school in Olympia and it is true everyone's the same.

I love this song!

[electronicoffee]

@catalunarocks So true. Haha I went to school there ;)

[catalunarocks]

@electronicoffee haha you went to Evergreen? yeah it's the WORST, barf, look and talk the same MAKE ME SICK !!!!! it's like a creepy cult. I HATED it the first yr. so I switched to the tacoma campus, better, now I'm back at Oly in the Spirituality program, native american studies, it's great, separate from the school in the Longhouse and break free independent study, it's awesome. I wish Courtney Love was still at Evergreen! that would rock the house!

[TheMarsick]

if a girl sing this song to me i fall in love..

no,if only her listen to this song..

[klink2u]

do it for the kids....

[rubyrose456]

LA-YA-YA-YA-YA-YA-YA! ROCKS!!!!!

[RevoSociety]

WE EVEN FUCK THE SAME!! OH MY GOD THAT IS THE BEST FUCKIN LYRIC I'VE EVER HEARD, LEAVE IT TO COURTNEY! Love her ssssoooo much!

[tink5864]

This describes what high school is really all about!!!!

[RevoSociety]

this is my fuckin school life!!!!! i love this sonf im going to learn it asap.

[cuzzinmiko]

i didn't go to high school. i went to school high.

[AvaLaveer]

@cuzzinmiko hahahhah nice!!

[CaucasianBushhead]

@cuzzinmiko Yeahhhhhh buddy!

[SuperPinklover1]

@cuzzinmiko I went to high school. Everyone there was high.

[Oscarnodwannabe]

@cuzzinmiko niiice one!!!

[GeoLovesPop]

This is called Olympia! Rockstar is another song! It was to be on this album but they changed their mind and put Olympia,but the back cover was already printed with the name Rockstar to it so they named this song Rockstar!

[beesley27]

@GeoLovesPop thank you for saving me the trouble of having to explane this.

[GeoLovesPop]

lol no problem :) haha

[josis2cute]

@GeoLovesPop cool fact

[scooter45207]

Fuck ya'll

[blackmilk11982]

we even fuck the same

[noneinterested]

@blackmilk11982 We even fuck the same (people) -- that's what that line actually means. it's true. go to olympia and you'll find out.

[jurkis1]

I just learned that this song is called Olympia.

[aerolynda]

merci j aime trop cette chanson je la rechercher partous domage qui ni pas pas de clip sur celle la

[ryukenb2k]

Man reminising is great, I was a real hardcore head banga before becoming religious,but its good to look back sometimes to see where we came from.peace everyone.

[brightpinkstatic]

everyone be all goin off about the "original" and "alt" mix when this one be the best

[13bikinikill]

yeahhhhh

[devilskitchen08]

tunage m8 nice 1