It is no secret that there is a long history between Courtney Love of Hole and Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland. Today we would call them frenemies. The two women met in Portland in the early 1980s, hit it off immediately and decided to play music together. In 1985 the pair recruited Jennifer Finch (an old friend of Love’s from LA) and started a band called Sugar Baby Doll. While that is a lot of strong personalities packed into one band, grunge and kinderwhore fans would freak out at the thought of seeing these three women live on stage together.

However, apparently the band was quite the opposite of legendary. Love was quoted in Courtney Love: The Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite as saying this about the supergroup that wasn’t:

“We were going to make the most obnoxious music in the world… However, I had a doctor who gave me a hundred sedatives a week. So we ended up making this sort of faux Cocteau Twins music but I didn’t really have the voice, and I was singing in a register way too high for me.”

Sounds kinda terrifying coming from the queens of 90s grunge, doesn’t it?

The band was short lived, mostly it appears due to Love’s drug consumption. Kat Bjelland said on VH1’s Behind the Music about working with Love:

“Every time she would do (drugs) she would take all of her clothes off, walk in circles, talk about stuff, not play music.”

These disruptive band practices and fighting among the group ended the project. This is probably a good thing because Courtney Love went on to form Hole, Kat Bjelland started Babes in Toyland and Jennifer Finch joined L7. We got three great bands when we would have been stuck with just one. And of course, the “War of the Schmatte” began when Love and Bjelland argued over who created the kinderwhore look or who stole it from whom.

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