Celebrity Skin Tabs:
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Northern Star
Hole
Celebrity Skin
Tabbed by Nic Young
http://garbageman.cjb.net
Intro:
Rhy. Fig #1
e--------------------------------|
B--------------------------------|
G---------------------------1--2-|
D-----3----------2-------------2-|
A---3---------3----------2-----0-|
E-1-----1--0--------0--0---------|
Rhy. Fig #2
e-----------------------------------|
B------1------------1----------0----|
G---0------------0----------1-----2-|
D-3-------3---2--------2--2-------2-|
A-----------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------|
Before the verses strum Em several times.
Verse:
Am Em
Am Em
Am Em
Am C Em
Am D
Em Em/F#
Am D
C Em
Am D C Em
Then play Rhy. Fig #1
Chorus
G (Rhy. Fig #1) (Play 4 times)
G (Rhy. Fig #1, then #2)
Bridge:
E C
E C
Am D
E C
E C
Am D
G Em
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Stephen Average |
#1 by Stephen Weber at Jun 10, 1973 at 8:45 PM EST |
| i LOVE this song...the first time i heard it i assumed it was about kurt | |
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Adam Average |
#2 by Adam ****** at Apr 4, 1981 at 7:35 PM EST |
| this is a beautiful song. i love the live through this album, but i have to say that whenever i need comfort...and need to know that someone is depressed too..i listen to celebrity skin cause its more mellow...and soft i guess. it's an overlooked album i think. but good | |
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billy Average |
#3 by billy murchison at Apr 16, 1981 at 6:42 AM EST |
| One last thing: on the U2 reference - the song came on as I was driving home since it was in my CD player. But listen to that song it just seems to fit the event so well. | |
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Badass |
#4 by Nirvana at Jun 13, 1982 at 4:50 PM EST |
| i LOVE this song | |
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Bodhi Average |
#5 by Bodhi Bassist at May 14, 1987 at 12:58 AM EST |
| Although everyone seems to think the entire Celebrity Skin album is about Cobain, I usually disagree - however I think this is clearly about him and Love coping with his death. It really is a beautiful song, and her voice just drips with bitterness. | |
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Zack Average |
#6 by Zack Groce at Jul 6, 1987 at 7:35 PM EST |
| This song is partly about Edward Norton and Kurt Cobain. It's really funny looking under all these things and seeing people write "I think this song is about Kurt." I don't know. It just makes me laugh. | |
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Kaden Wanna Be |
#7 by Kaden at May 26, 1988 at 12:28 PM EST |
| this song is incredible. she has such a powerful voice, i can't stand it when people say that she can't sing. i love listening to this song becasue you can just feel all of the pain that she has gone through. I have so much respect for courtney love because of how shitty her life has been, yet she still continues to make amazing music and show how she feels inside. | |
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Danny Boy Lead Player |
#8 by Danny Boy at May 27, 1989 at 5:12 AM EST |
| 'No loneliness, no misery is worth you' - I love this line. The whole song is about pain & loss, but in this line, she's saying that this person is more important than all the pain. (or maybe I'm way off the mark?) Could everyone PLEASE take their conspiracy theories somewhere else? No one here wants to hear about it. | |
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Henry Wanna Be |
#9 by Henry at Dec 20, 1993 at 9:09 AM EST |
| aww its such a cute song. i agree its about how much she misses Kurt. bt i still think she had him killed, since she would get loads of money from publicity, owning the rights to all Nirvana stuff, and she could used the fame to promote Hole, not 2 mention all the money she would inherit off him. "And they paid, I cry and cry for you " makes it more obvious. Amazin musician though! | |
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one Average |
#10 by one life at Jan 5, 1996 at 9:32 PM EST |
| This song is absoulutely beautiful, as Lahdee said, i never have forgotten the first time i heard it. Driving to my grandpa's on Christmas Eve during a snowstorm. The way she chants this song is amazing, and i have yet to hear a song quite like it. | |
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Iron Average |
#11 by Iron at Mar 21, 1996 at 4:52 AM EST |
| yes RL it is a very clever play on words - you expect it to be "in hell" but "inhale" is just brilliant - i LOVE that part! sometimes when performing this song live courtney chants "we are terrified, we are naked, we are walleyed, i'll see you on the other side, if you dare, cause baby, I will be there, you know all of us, we all die, yeah" it's definitely worth the time to youtube - peace, kat 1 2 Next | |
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michael Wanna Be |
#12 by michael Dittrich at May 18, 1996 at 2:54 AM EST |
| I read an interview after the album came out where Courtney swears the song is about Seattle (the Northern Star) and not about Kurt. However, I think she is either lying to the interviewer or to herself. Just listening to the pain in her voice and the rawness of the lyrics, it is obviously about Kurt. I think "Northern Star" can have a dual meaning - one being Kurt and one being Seattle and thus the changes in the chorus. It may also be about Seattle, but primarily Kurt: "He's so cold, he will ruin the world tonight" When people die, their bodies become cold. His death ruined her world and many believe ruined the world of music at that time. Also ruined the world for all of us that we will not get any more music from him. Here is a quite literal reference to "his grave" "And I knew, the fire and the ashes of his grave" - which makes sense since he was creamated and she carried some of his ashes with her in a stuffed bear. There is also a lot of resentment in the song. This song is amazing on so many levels and like all good art, it can mean different things to different people. That is the beauty of good art. To me, the U2 song "Walk On" will always be about 9/11. However, the album was released months before 9/11. I just happened to be listening to that song on the way home from work (we were sent home early). I also agree about the line "run to the pines" - i never thought that was a coincidence that Nirvana's MTV performance ended with "Where did you sleep last night" which contains the line "in the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine" etc. | |
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J_ROC Lead Player |
#13 by J_ROC at Aug 28, 1997 at 3:40 AM EST |
| It's a dirge: a song to play at a funeral. She's angry and grieving. She's not even sure if she liked him ("he's so cold, he will ruin the world tonight"), or maybe it's her anger at him for dying on her. When I was going thru a bad divorce I played this song A LOT. BTW, does anyone else besides me notice the ambiguity in the second line "Inhale" instead of the expected "in hell"? | |
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Dan Lead Player |
#14 by Dan archy at Apr 30, 2005 at 5:40 PM EST |
| I think it's about molestation and wanting to escape from the situation but being trapped. Also think it is about drugs to drown out the pain and the fight to quit drugs and deal with your pain in more constructive ways. | |
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JC Average |
#15 by JC Drake at Dec 11, 2005 at 5:30 AM EST |
| I love this song, and the first time I heard it, I immediately thought Kurt as well. This song also makes me think of my Grandpa my mom's father. He had a stroke on Dec. 6th, 2001, and passed away on Dec. 19th. It makes me think of him, because he had so much unfinished business to attend to. He left my Grandma when my mom was 3, and he totally screwed up his kids' lives. He had a crazy wife who got my mom and her brother and sister to steal from their own mom when they were little, and he lived a mile down the road from them, but he'd never go to visit. Needless to say, my mom ended up growing into a very bitter angry person, and when Grandpa died, it was the end of something that I was hoping would have improved if he'd survived. He had actually asked my mom the day that he went into the hospital if he was the cause of her depression, and after that, for the next 2 weeks, we all got close to him, which we'd never done before. So, on the night he died, I just put the song on repeat, and sat there bawling. All I could think was that if he'd lived on, we could have reconnected with him, he could have made amends with my mom, and gotten to know his granddaughters better...Because we really loved him even though we didn't know him that well. And, on the night he died, it was like watching it all be ripped apart...The foundation that we'd started to lay down in those 2 weeks was shrededd into pieces before our eyes, and I still wonder what might have been if things had turned out differently. MaggieMichelle | |
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