Who will listen to another Courtney Love "comeback record"?

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The only problem with "Celebrity Skin" is Courtney was listening to too much fucking Pavement at the time and thought it'd be cute to do all that Malkmus "Forgot your cryptic crossword on the tube? Try this!" shit. It isn't.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

What are you talking about? Fuck Pavement! It's obvious that solo Stevie Nicks and Cheap Trick were on her stereo.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

She said in a couple of interviews around the time of the album that although Fleetwood M were the obvious sonic influence on the album (apparently that was Corgan's idea, not her's... no, I don't buy that either), the lyrics were deliberately Pavement-y. Select Magazine, ...July? 1999 edition.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

people were talking about her genius as a lyricist

And they was right!

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, YOU know what to do

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That's "you know WHAT to do" - the problem may be your ear?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

But srsly, if you want to go after her on the lyrical front, you could find easier targets than "Malibu."

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i think YOU missed the point of my last post, but never no mind

i don't really care one way or the other about CL (esp. in 2006), i just always found that lyric lazy/throw away (but maybe that's what people like about it)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtney plugging new book on THE VIEW yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5tsx_2WLH8

If someone can find the Good Morning America thing, post it.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 2 November 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i listened to 'malibu' yesterday, it really is astonishingly great. i don't understand what's wrong with that lyric either, it doesn't seem lazy or throwaway.

i heard it for ages as "baby drive away from malibu" in the first chorus, and thereafter "baby drive away to malibu".

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: another Courtney Love "comeback record" vs. another Jay-Z "comeback record"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to bump the Celebrity Skin thread to talk about how great that record is, but the search function doesn't work :(

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you mean this one?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I will, because the last one was unbelievably great.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe Corgan will end up w/ her after all.
eeesh. they're sorta made for each other in sick way.
he can write/produce her songs, she'll do the PR that he can't.
Yemchuck (or how ever it's spelled) will do the photo spread.

― edde (edde), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, she says that she and Corgan are living together now, so it seems reasonable to expect another Celebrity Skin. I think she was more suited to using Cobain's stuff, but I love Corgan so whatevs!

― richardk (Richard K), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Malibu a lot, but the rest of that record....eh. (and i LIKE Fleetword Mac!)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I've long hoped she'll duet with Corgan on "Whenever I Call You 'Friend'."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtney and S. Malkmus did compete to see who could finish the NYT crossword first during the Lollapalooza '95 tour.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtney can spell?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Malkmus kicked her ass in the puzzle contest. It was the Sunday version i.e. the one I can never ever solve.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday's big, but it ain't so bad. Saturday crushes brains.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtney on Leno last night was the most lucid I'd ever seen her. She actually seems happy. I hope it lasts.

She has some stories, man:
CL: When I was 14 I was exotic dancing!
Leno: Who the hell hires a 14 year old exotic dancer?
CL: The Yakuza.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

court rules. sorry I missed this! is it on teh youtubes somewhere?

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't see it up yet.
Let's see, I'll recap a bit. It was two whole segements long. Another funny part was that the nude pic of her laying on her stomach on the cover of her book Dirty Blonde was taken by Kurt, and when she was looking through his photos she found a pic of Tracy Marander in the same exact pose! "So he was definitely an ass man."
She also talked more about being friends with Whitney Houston, and how Whitney said Courtney's "more ghetto than her" cuz she's done shit that even Whitney wouldn't stoop to.
Oh, and there was a story about the time Mel Gibson(!) distracted her drug dealer so she could be taken off to rehab.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

And her associates/hangers on/drug dealers bleed her for 20 million dollars.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah! That's fucked up. She had like 100 banks accounts and couldn't keep track of all the mooching.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(haha I can't type today)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Supposed tracklist for the new album from wiki:

Courtney Love How Dirty Girls Get Clean

01. Letter To God
02. The Depths of My Despair
03. My Bedroom Walls
04. Sad But True
05. Sunset Marquis
06. Pacific Coast Highway
07. For Once In Your Life
08. Wildfire
09. Loser Dust
10. Never Go Hungry Again
11. Stand Up Motherfucker
12. Good In Bed
13. How Dirty Girls Get Clean

Produced By Linda Perry, Billy Corgan & Courtney Love

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link

mono was one of those songs that gave birth to a movement, but nobody noticed, except oddly enough courtney...

the video was one of the few prophetic moments in pop, like dylan at newport, hendrix at woodstock, madonna voguing, britney in the kilt iconic, but stranger and more fecund.

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

06. Pacific Coast Highway

Is that a Sonic Youth cover by any chance?

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Just got the Dirty Blonde book in the mail today. It's like the Kurt Cobain Journals but with lots of photos. Looks trashy and fun. Will report back.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a postcard to me in that book! I found it a bit exhausting, honestly. And pricy!

― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Amazon had it $15 off. Which postcard?
I've just glanced through it a bit. Courtney's handwriting is for the most part a lot less readable than Kurt's.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

arthur i was wondering if that was you!

― children of mentalists (get bent), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet this sells like 5 copies

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, jbr, it has my old address on Norfolk Street. Marmot, it's the postcard where she complains about how dull Norway is--or maybe Denmark. I'm glad she never sent it, she sounded so jaded.

― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha ok I saw that one but didn't read past the first sentence.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

This book made me want a tell-all ghostwritten/"as told to" dish-o-matic C.Lo book even more than I already did!

http://www.staticmultimedia.com/content/printed/reviews/book/review_1167276459?info=printed

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Latest info on the new album has it coming out in March, supposedly NOT going to be called "How Dirty Girls Get Clean" anymore even though that title is proudly displayed on the Dirty Blonde dust jacket, hmm...
Some mp3s floating around, I've only listened to a demo of "Never Go Hungry Again" so far, which has a big catchy folk-rock chorus.

Some new pics of teh court:
http://x17online.com/celebrities/courtney_love/who_is_this_woman.php

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, "Pacific Coast Highway" = totally back on the Fleetwood Mac

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm bloody and totally bound, I don't know what to do with my hands now"

haha this song is pretty good

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, "Pacific Coast Highway" = totally back on the Fleetwood Mac

This has got me excited. I'm hoping and betting for a new 'Celebrity Skin'

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish there was more, "official" confirmation of this.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sunset Marquis (live)" sounds even more like Fleetwood Mac. Keep yr fingers crossed Baaderonixx.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

Nobody's Daughter is the title now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289177,00.html

She played the songs from “Nobody’s Daughter” with her band in a most sophisticated fashion. She still rocks, and can get off a raspy yelp when she needs it. But now she has talented musicians backing her up, and arrangements. The music is defined, hummable and well-constructed.
So are the lyrics. Whenever “Nobody’s Daughter” is released (this is still up in the air — hello labels looking for a hit) old fans and new fans should be impressed by Courtney’s ability to articulate her pain, anger and rebirth.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link

huh

― Surmounter, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

The eatery is called Hiro, and it’s synonymous with the way Courtney Love is feeling these days. She didn’t die. She became a hero.

WOW...

― Stevie D, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link

The lyrics are "defined, hummable and well-constructed"?

Count me in amongst the America's Sweetheart fans.

― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link

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where is RIP thread

― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 January 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link

whoever's courtney's got working for her has done an excellent job of killing every link to demos for "nobody's daughter" - all of my search efforts this morning has been for naught.

― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 6 February 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link

have been

still waking up over here...

― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 6 February 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Great new songs "You Know My Name" and "Wedding Day"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFUF7ktTJFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316ZjRu-UEM

also, this lol exchange

Pitchfork: It does seem like everyone from Hole has been busy: I saw Patty's band Upset earlier this year, and I was at Melissa's venue Basilica Hudson in upstate New York last year, and I read Eric's book a couple of years ago.
CL: Melissa's a real avid Pitchfork reader. Patti knows every single thing that's still going on with Drag City and Razor & Tie and every little label. Brody Dalle from Distillers was telling me how there are lots of cool little labels, which I'm not up on because I don't read Pitchfork everyday. I read Jezebel a lot. I've tried to tweet you guys and kiss your ass, but the dude in Portland just doesn't like me. So I'm like, "OK, fine."
Pitchfork: Portland?
CL: Isn't it based in Portland?
Pitchfork: No, we're in Brooklyn and Chicago.
CL: Oh! I see, I see. I mixed it up with "Portlandia".

― how's life, Friday, 2 May 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link

these are actually good, these new songs!

and lol @ courtney <3

― lex pretend, Friday, 2 May 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

I can't listen to it at the moment.

http://www.stereogum.com/1802312/courtney-love-miss-narcissist/mp3s/

― turlte party (how's life), Monday, 18 May 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link

cool cover:

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/05/18073809/Courtney-Love-560x560.jpg

― flappy bird, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

Blimey this thread is full of wonder, isn't it just?

― Mark G, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link

I am way into this

― Evan R, Monday, 18 May 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link

Not that this is an especially tall bar to clear, but I'm betting this is the best new track we'll hear from a '90s alternative veteran this year

― Evan R, Monday, 18 May 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link

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