Legacy
Pretty on the Inside has had an influence on several alternative rock acts, being specifically mentioned by Spinnerette frontwoman Brody Dalle in an interview as a seminal album in the development of her music. British rock band Nine Black Alps also cited the album as a major influence on their third release, Locked Out from the Inside (2009). Contemporarily, the album has also gained a cult following among rock and punk music fans.
The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock called the album a "surly milkshake of broken rock shards... from the artistic misspellings of song titles to the lyric collage on the inner sleeve and the abrasive, abstract guitar noises on the songs, Pretty on the Inside reveals the band's fascination with the New York no wave art and music scene of the '80s." According to Billboard, the album had sold 27,000 copies by 1994, when the band released their wildly popular followup album, Live Through This.
In more recent years, frontwoman Love stated that the album contains "nothing melodic". In a 2011 interview for Hit So Hard (2011), a documentary on later Hole drummer Patty Schemel, Love referred to Pretty on the Inside as "unlistenable", going on to say: "That record was a calling card for rock critics and hardcorers, 'This is what I do, and I am not going to back down from it. I am announcing my persona as a cunt. Thank you very much.'"
Nonetheless, the title track of the album was performed regularly at Hole concerts between 1993 and 1999, and Love opened shows with the song during Hole's 2010 tour.
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