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“Asking For It” by Hole with Kurt Cobain
From the album Live Through This (1994) With Kurt Cobain
“Asking For It” by Hole with Kurt Cobain appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1995 and 2004. It was first released in 1994 on the album Live Through This. Its best result is #68 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #166 alternative song of 1995 and #3,932 alternative song of all time.
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"Asking for It" sits fourth on Live Through This, the second Hole album, out in April 1994, and it's one of the knottiest things Courtney Love ever put her name to. She wrote it with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson and sings it with the kind of raw nerve that made the whole record feel less like an album than a dare.
Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie produced, Scott Litt mixed, and the tape holds one more ghost: Kurt Cobain, Love's husband, turns up on it, one of only 3 Hole tracks ever issued with him aboard. Nobody put it out as a single, but modern rock radio went digging anyway, and in February 1995 it spent four weeks on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, topping out at 36.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 68 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 | 107 |
| 1995 | 68 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 636 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 892 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 1292 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2004 | 382 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
Also listed as: Asking for It.
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