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When we talk about Hole in the present day, we look back with a sense of admiration, praise and celebration for the songwriting talents of Courtney Love<\/a>. During their initial run as a band in the 1990s, however, things couldn\u2019t have been more different.<\/p>\n Regularly underappreciated as a result of the music industry\u2019s rampant misogyny, the often controversial and strained public relationship between Love and her husband, Kurt Cobain, often led to people unjustly criticising her and her work, either stating that she wasn\u2019t capable of writing anything of worth without the input of a rockstar partner, or that she was piggybacking off the success that he had with Nirvana<\/a> in order to boost her own profile.<\/p>\n This, of course, is a gigantic mistruth, and one that was only perpetuated to diminish her talents as a songwriter and use her as a scapegoat for the tragic death of her spouse, and you only need to listen to the boisterous brilliance of an album like Live Through This to notice that her abilities were far beyond what she was ever given credit for. Granted, Hole never quite broke into the mainstream in the same way that Nirvana did, but they had enough attention from audiences within the underground rock circuit that could have made them the next grunge superstars, or indeed put the riot grrrl movement on the map.<\/p>\n When compared to the works of contemporaries like Bikini Kill and Babes in Toyland, there was something far more ready for mainstream attention and adulation about Hole\u2019s work, and with Love\u2019s ability to write bubblegum hooks that were backed by vicious guitar lines and snarling vocals, they offered something that was not just a unique prospect, but fully geared up to be successful, But how exactly did their work perform in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic? Was it simply a case of a moderate success story, or was it a case of them arriving at the wrong time, where their work wasn\u2019t ready to be appreciated with the same importance?<\/p>\n What\u2019s Courtney Love\u2019s highest-ever charting position?<\/p>\n