Courtney Love - Mono (new single)

Maybe I'll grow to love it, maybe the rest of the album will be better, maybe it's too late at night for me to be making judgements on anything.

But we shall see.

I'm already disappointed :/

(And Japan is another country where we can't download the track.)

is there not already just too much damn STUFF clogging up the world without this too?

either way, *feh*.

isn't this record already 2 years overdue?

You didn't say anything about the actual song.

I like "Mono" a lot, it has a big tune and a fuck-you attitude and Courtney can still pull both those things off very well.

sorry. i meant to.
its exactly what one would imagine it to be.
that is, lacking in any tune in any 'real' sense of the word (its got the Courtney Love version of a tune though. you know, 'that' one. the one where she sort of slurs and meanders around it in an attempt to make it different from the last time she used it).
and the lyrics are terrible.
exactly the sort of meaningless bluster a 45year old multimillionaire with a vague recollection of 'punk rock' would produce.

I love the way the guitars pund on the line "so much better than you" which is of course the crux of the whole song. I don't think the lyrics are bad at all, admittedly I haven't listened to the verses very closely but the sentiment of the chorus is quite fantastic.

lego did you like Courtney when she WASN'T a 45-year-old multimillionaire or are you just using her success as a stick to beat her with?

I can sorta understand being a fan of her music (though I think it's crap) and I can vaguely understand one's appreciation for her acting (though I think she's hugely overrated in that capacity), but why would anyone champion Courtney for her endeavors as a "media personality"?

i think that - though - because marissa is not a celebrity i am growing tired of her. i prefer her more undergroud werks.

can we have that translated from its original gibberish please?

makes perfect sense to me. she's been manipulating the media and her own image in the media since the beginning. it's impressive to me how she inserts herself into all kinds of things, for better or worse. she's like her own mad publicist.

anyway, the song sounds good but Sean's right, there are absolutely no hooks to speak of. I had heard it was going to sound like "City Slang" and it sort of does, but again there's nothing memorable.

*realizes the futiility of trying to "sing" a guitar riff over ILM*

Seems the other way around now, though, as she's constantly entangled in one or another embarassing hijiinx (from child custody flaps through the infamous Q cover).

She's pathetic, as is her music.

Rolling Stone pans her new album, and I'm starting to think what I always suspected was mostly an act (the unpredictable behavior, disheveled appearance, etc) is actually indicative of drug addiction and/or a completely unstable personality, but I hope not (I know most people always thought this, but I thought she was too smart, too knowing and too glamorous for it to really be true.) Why has it taken *so long* for her to put together this album? I'll buy it regardless, and I still regard her as a potential icon, but I've got to admit I'm concerned.

I just realized yesterday it's been almost exactly ten years since Live Through This. Nutty.

She sounds pretty fucked up on Plague but everything else is pretty much business as usual and not at all like the way RS were going on about it. Really lame tortured Hollywood princess lyrics though. I'm talking really wince-worthy stuff here. But who knows.. seventeen year old girls might really dig it.

I have mixed feeling about it, but I think you'll like it, Sean. The rockers are really good. "Mono" you know. "But Julian..." is the Skids meets the Muffs. I thought it sounded like a dumb idea at first, but her delivery is great. "I'll Do Anything" sounds like some band that was superpopular a decade or so ago and has some funny lyrics. It's great. Taking self-obsession to new heights, la la la. "Hello" does the boys gang backup vocal "hello hello hello" thing, is it a nod to Gary Glitter/Oasis or Cheap Trick? I like it. "Zeplin Song" reminds me of the Hollywood rock scene of the late '80s, I just picture some gross apartment complex around Sunset and La Brea filled with G 'n R wannabes and the women who love them. It reminds me of Redd Kross, too, actually. Which is the highest compliment from me. It's her "Jimmy's Fantasy"!

The songs that actually sound like Zeppelin I don't much care for. Her Robert Plant/Candy Slice impersonation on "Life Despite God" is pretty dire. "All the Drugs' would have been OK but songs about drugs are so boring.

The mid-tempo songs are so-so. "Almost Golden" is "Boys on the Radio" Pt. 2, that "poor pretty rock star boy let me save you" sentiment. "Sunset Strip" has that "Downed"/"Dear Prudence" descending guitar thing, which is nice, but the lyrics are incredibly corny. I hate it when she tries to do these profound Los Angeles songs, it's much better when the lyrics are jokey and throwaway, like on "Celebrity Skin" or "Zeplin Song". The "timeless" Stevie ballads like "Hold on to Me" and ""Never Gonna Be the Same" are not my thing, generally.

" 'Will you accept a collect call from Robert Plant?'/
We picked him up on Vine/
On a bus bench, singing that song, he cannot stop/
This is not the first time/
He was so cute/ Johnny Punk Rock, so cynical/
You would have jumped him, too."

Story of my life, har har.

Edward, I love your blog, it 's the greatest!

I think I'm gonna love this!

who's the new svengali of ms. love?
shoulda been trent. but, she scared him.

Anyway, the thank-you's are fantastic as usual, b-b-but the Church of Scientology?!

haha it's about arson ("almost golden," get it?)

I wish I felt the same about the ballads/vocals...maybe they'll grow on me.

You know The Rose was one of her favorite movies (Kurt's appearance at the start of Reading in '92 was supposed to be an impersonation of the Rose in the final scene of the movie) and her first manager (circa Straight to Hell was trying to promote her as a young Bette Midler?

But it's totally understandable.

Posted on Thu, Mar. 18, 2004

Courtney Love Arrested on Assault Charge
Associated Press

NEW YORK - A few hours after a loopy "Late Show" appearance in which she lifted her shirt to expose her breasts at least six times, rocker Courtney Love was arrested early Thursday for allegedly throwing a microphone stand and striking a man in the head.

The 24-year-old man was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said. Police said they were charging Love with reckless endangerment and third-degree assault after the 2:30 a.m. incident at a posh Manhattan nightclub.

Messages left for representatives of Love early Thursday weren't immediately returned.

Love, who is facing felony drug charges in California, repeatedly lifted her olive shirt several times on David Letterman's CBS talk show.

Her back was facing the camera when she exposed herself while making an entrance. She then stood atop Letterman's desk, sang a few bars of "Danny Boy," and offered the host an up-close viewing. The video was altered so a profile of her breasts could not be seen.

She alluded to actress Drew Barrymore, who similarly exposed herself to the talk-show host.

"Very sweet of you," Letterman said. "We're going to lose our liquor license."

Love sat down on Letterman's couch, gestured to her chest and said, "FCC!"

Of the Federal Communication Commission's recent crackdown on lewd content on television and radio, Love said, "Is this like Reagan trickle-down economics? Is this like Bush trickle down?"

Love, the former lead singer of the group Hole, was arrested in October after allegedly trying to break into the Los Angeles home of a former boyfriend. Police later called to her home allegedly found painkillers when Love was taken to a treatment center for a drug overdose.

Love has been charged with two felony counts of possession of controlled substances. She also faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance.

A preliminary hearing in the felony case has been postponed to April 15. She showed up two hours late Tuesday for a court hearing and was scolded by the judge after talking out of turn in court.

During his show, Letterman asked Love whether she could talk about the court case. "Yeah, I'm not supposed to," she said.

When Letterman later asked if drugs were involved, Love said, "One expired Percocet and one Ambien." Love later lit up a cigarette - defying New York City's strict anti-smoking laws - and asked Letterman, "Are you going to cut this because I'm smoking?"

"That won't be the reason we cut anything," he replied. Letterman looked profoundly uncomfortable with Love's scatterbrained performance, but he did get the last word. He was looking to cut to a commercial, but Love insisted he ask her one more question.

"How much do you weigh?" Letterman said. Love looked shocked. She didn't answer.