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“Teenage Whore” by Hole
From the album Pretty on the Inside (1991)
“Teenage Whore” by Hole appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1991 on the album Pretty on the Inside. Its best result is #10 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #95 alternative song of 1991.
"Teenage Whore" is the first thing you hear on Pretty on the Inside, Hole's 1991 debut album, and it doesn't bother knocking. Cut in March of that year with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming producing, it drags noise rock and grindcore into the room: strings muted into a frantic chatter, tritones grinding against each other, a deliberate grubbiness to the whole racket. Courtney Love's lyric sketches a despondent teenage prostitute whose mother has walked out and left her behind. The songwriting is credited to Love, Eric Erlandson, Jill Emery and Caroline Rue.
City Slang put it out as a UK single that September on CD and on 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl, backed with "Drown Soda" and "Burn Black". It never charted in America, but in Britain it went all the way to the top of the Indie Chart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 10 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
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