Song · Hole
“Beautiful Son” by Hole
Released 1993
“Beautiful Son” by Hole appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1993. It was first released in 1993. Its best result is #47 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #282 alternative song of 1993.
Hole's "Beautiful Son" landed in April 1993 on the European label City Slang, the band's fourth single. Courtney Love wrote it with guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel, and it goes back to 1992, around the time she married Kurt Cobain. The sleeve made the link impossible to miss: a photo of Cobain at age 7, picked to go with the words.
It's also Love learning to get out of her own way. She'd always reached for complicated songs without ever mastering an easy Beatles-style tune, she said, so this time she set out to "be a little dumber", hung the thing on one riff, and came away convinced that plain lines and plain melodies make the best songs. Hole cut it with Jack Endino from November 8 to 10, 1992, at Seattle's Word of Mouth Productions, formerly Reciprocal Recording.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 47 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993 | 50 |
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