My Body, the Hand Grenade

My Body, the Hand Grenade
Compilation album by Hole
Released	October 28, 1997
Recorded	March 1990 - August 1995
Genre	Rock
Length	55:00
Label	City Slang
Producer	Hole
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Hole chronology
The First Session (1997) My Body, the Hand Grenade (1997) Celebrity Skin (1998)

My Body, the Hand Grenade is an album by Hole that includes b-sides, demo recordings, live songs, and other rare and unreleased tracks by the band. Besides most of the songwriting credits goes to Hole, the BMI website shows that most of the songs were written just by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, except "Retard Girl", written by Love; "Old Age", written by Kurt Cobain/Courtney Love (contested); "Beautiful Son" and "20 Years In The Dakota", written by Love, Eric Erlandson and Patty Schemel; and "Drown Soda", the only case on the album of a song credited to a full Hole line-up (Love, Erlandson, Jill Emery and Caroline Rue).

Track listing

All songs written by Hole, unless noted otherwise

1. "Turpentine" – 4:00
2. "Phonebill Song" – 1:48
3. "Retard Girl" – 4:47
4. "Burn Black" – 4:56
5. "Dicknail" – 3:39
6. "Beautiful Son" – 2:30
7. "20 Years in the Dakota" – 2:54
8. "Miss World" (demo version) – 3:29
9. "Old Age" – 4:23
10. "Softer, Softest" (from MTV Unplugged) – 3:47
11. "He Hit Me (It Felt like a Kiss)" (from MTV Unplugged; written by Carole King/Gerry Goffin) – 3:44
12. "Season of the Witch" (from MTV Unplugged; written by Donovan Leitch) – 3:42
13. "Drown Soda" (live version) – 6:10
14. "Asking for It" (live version) – 3:58

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