Grease Your Hips is an unofficial live album by American alternative rock band Hole. The double album is composed of live radio broadcast performances by Hole in 1994 at the Hollywood Palladium and the Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California, in late 1994. It was released on vinyl on January 22, 2016.

Background

The tracks on Grease Your Hips originate from radio broadcasts of two Hole shows in 1994; first at the Hollywood Palladium in November, and second at the Berkeley Community Theatre in December. The title of the record is derived from a lyric in the track "Gutless."

Release

The album was released initially on iTunes by Good Ship Funke Records, a United Kingdom-based label, on May 4, 2015. It was released as a double LP on January 22, 2016, in the United Kingdom by Let Them Eat Vinyl, and on January 29 in North America.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Plump"Courtney LoveEric Erlandson2:44
2."Beautiful Son"LoveErlandsonPatty Schemel2:52
3."Miss World"LoveErlandson3:04
4."Asking For It"LoveErlandson4:56
5."Hungry Like the Wolf"Duran Duran1:41
6."Gutless"LoveErlandson2:44
7."Softer, Softest"LoveErlandson4:19
8."I Think That I Would Die"LoveErlandson4:22
9."Credit in the Straight World"Stuart Moxham2:49
10."Teenage Whore"LoveErlandsonCaroline RueJill Emery2:37
11."Violet"LoveErlandson5:06
12."Sugar Coma"Love1:17
13."Miss World / We Three Kings"LoveErlandson / John Henry Hopkins, Jr.4:21
14."Asking For It"Love, Erlandson5:24
15."He Hit Me (and It Felt like a Kiss) / Best Sunday Dress"Carole KingGerry Goffin / LoveKat Bjelland3:42
16."Doll Parts"Love5:35
17."Violet"LoveErlandson4:01
18."Olympia"LoveErlandson3:42
19."Sugar Coma" (reprise)Love2:48
Total length:69:01

*Note: Tracks 1–11 recorded at the Hollywood Palladium, November 9, 1994; Tracks 12–19 recorded at the Berkeley Community Theatre, December 9, 1994

Personnel