“Icontend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff – before the rest of the boys”: How Courtney Love created the grunge classic that was released during her darkest hour

Courtney Love in 1994.

Violet, the opening track on Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This, is a burning declaration of intense feminist rage.

It’s a song that’s capable of sending shivers down any listener’s spine, especially when the band’s leader, Courtney Love, starts screaming during its heavily overdriven chorus sections: “Go on, take everything, take everything, I want you to.”