Maximum Courtney Love (Interview) - Courtney Love

Advantages: Well, it's listenable
Disadvantages: It's not actually any good though, better off with Hole

...Despite constantly being in the headlines ? mostly for drug charges recently ? you have to wonder just how far Courtney Love?s singing and acting career would have got if she hadn?t been Mrs Kurt Cobain. Her former band Hole certainly made the most of the grunge association to release three albums. Courtney?s solo debut doesn?t deviate too far from Hole?s legacy, but seems to combine elements of all three of their albums. The vocal style is definitely more in the singing style of Celebrity Skin. Otherwise, however, it?s not quite as polished as that album, and somewhere between Pretty On The Inside and Live Through This. I?d say the song-writing is closer to the former (i.e. fairly poor), but at least the production?s better than Hole?s debut. The opening track ?Mono? is probably the best the album has to offer ? and the only... Read review

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Advantages: good first track
Disadvantages: the rest of the album leaves something to be disired

...Courtney Love is famous for being in Hole and most famous for being married to Kurt Cobain. She may have been noticed in the headlines for drug taking and criminal charges but she has finally released her first solo album. Americas Sweetheart is a mediocre album nowhere near as good as Holes albums. The first track on the album 'Mono' and the first single is definitely the best song on the album by far, its loud and aggressive and gives of a good vibe and makes you think great things are coming on the rest of the album, but that's not the way it is. The rest of the album is much quieter and blends into each other. Track 7 'I'll Do Anything' guitar riffs sound just like a speeded up version of 'smells like teen spirit'. My favourite tracks are definitely Mono and All The Drugs the rest of the album I could either take it or leave it... Read review

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Advantages: useful interviews,information
Disadvantages: finding out Courtney Love has rights over most of Nirvana's music

...Any fan of Kurt Cobain( Lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana) and knowing some background on Kurt's death (supposidly suicide) ;watching this Nick Broomfield documentary, sheds light on the time around Kurt's death :- Wether he was suicidal or not. Nick Broomfield (documentarist of Kurt and Courtney, Biggie and Tupac...) shows us many interviews that leads us to put Courtney Love( Kurt's wife) into the limelight of having something to do with Kurt's Death and that Kurt may not have been suicidal in the first place. As a documentary, it really is spectacular. I studied this as one of the modern documentaries for my media studies course. Nick Broomfield always takes that one step further to get information and this I find respectful, Nick really is enthusiastic about his work. Unlike most other documentaries the director, in this case... Read review

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