Few albums provide such a perfect couple of album art and musical sound as Hole’s 1994 sophomore album Live Through This. The raw, snotty, painfully open sound of Courtney Love and co.‘s fearsome alternative punk sounds like what’s actually going on behind the facade of the garish homecoming photo on the album’s sleeve. So much of that comes from the manic smile, bugged eyes, and painted face of the homecoming queen on the cover, whose phoned-in glee seems to hide an ocean of embarrassment, insecurity, guile and rage. That said, the identity of the model behind this iconic cover isn’t known to everyone; in fact, for some time people wondered if the homecoming queen on the sleeve was Courtney herself. But the woman on Live Through This’ cover is in fact model and...
