Courtney Love
[1] Courtney Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is the lead singer, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Hole. Love is also a solo artist, an occasional model and actress. Love was born in San Francisco, California to psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, a short-lived manager for The Grateful Dead.
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More in the 1982. Read Full Bio[1] Courtney Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is the lead singer, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Hole. Love is also a solo artist, an occasional model and actress. Love was born in San Francisco, California to psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, a short-lived manager for The Grateful Dead.
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More in the 1982. Shortly, she was kicked out of the band, due to the band wanting a male singer. Three years later, she formed an all-female pop-rock band called Sugar Babydoll with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch, and later - also with Bjelland - the Pagan Babies. Love had greater early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox’s Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox’s Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as small roles on television episodes.
Returning to music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Love claims she co-founded the all-female rock band Babes in Toyland with Kat Bjelland in 1987, but others deny it;. Acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love’s quick exit from the band. The band’s biographer claims she stole house receipts to a Butthole Surfers concert. In 1989, Love formed her own band, Hole, with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band’s 1991 debut album garnered little critical or popular attention in the United States but was celebrated in the influential British alternative-music press. Already a star in England, Hole’s fortunes improved considerably wtih Love’s marriage to Kurt Cobain and the publicity about Cobain’s death.
Unpopular with some Nirvana fans (comparisons to Yoko Ono were made early on and persist to this day), Love’s image was further tarnished by a 1992 article in Vanity Fair entitled “Strange Love,” in which she admitted to using heroin in the early stages of pregnancy. As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated the Cobains’ fitness as parents. Love claims to this day that she was misquoted, saying she had told author Lynn Hirschberg that she had stopped using it once she learned she was pregnant.
Like Axl Rose, Love was ridiculed in the press for her abrasive, sometimes erratic behavior, such as cursing at paparazzi and publicly harassing Cobain’s former girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord.
Shortly before the release of Hole’s breakthrough album Live Through This in April 1994, Cobain committed suicide. Love read his suicide note at a televised memorial a few days later, sobbing hysterically and alternately cursing her husband as a “fucking asshole” and pleading with him to come back. Hole's bassist Kristen Pfaff died of drug overdose two months later. She was replaced by Melissa Auf der Maur later that year.
Love was a fashion trend-setter. In her early career, she modelled a “kinderwhore” look, which she was accused of having ripped off from Bjelland, although other sources suggest that the ripoff was in fact in the opposite direction. Love stated that the look was inspired by Christina Amphlett of 1980s rock group The Divinyls, most famously in a lengthy phone message recorded and subsequently released by The Muffs, who had ironically titled their album Blonder and Blonder after a sarcastic quote by Love regarding lead singer Kim Shattuck. Love’s style has since evolved, and she has modeled for more sophisticated designer labels.
Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Milos Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt. She was also praised for her supporting role in the 1998 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon, which starred Jim Carrey as Kaufman. Other notable film credits include Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes, and Feeling Minnesota.
Love released solo album ‘America’s Sweetheart’ in 2004, which contained a lot of collaborative work with Brody Dalle of The Distillers. In 2010, she resurrected the Hole name with a new lineup and released ‘Nobody’s Daughter’; this album contains some tracks from the never released album ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’.
In late 2012, Love announced per a Twitter account that "Hole is dead", and confirmed she would return to performing as a solo artist under her own name. She also referred to an upcoming single she recorded, produced by James Iha. On December 29, 2012, Love performed an acoustic show in New York, and performed at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. Love has booked a tour of the east coast beginning in June 2013.
[2] Courtney Love is also the name of a band with Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley (Yoyo Recordings Founder). There are multiple explanations for the name, but this was before Love herself became famous. The duo would release three well-regarded 7” singles on K Records and a few compilation tracks, but no albums. They disbanded on 1991.
singles and EPs:
* Uncrushworthy 7” EP, 1990, K Records
* Highlights 7” EP, 1991, K Records
* Hey! Antoinette 7” EP, 1991, Feel Good All Over
compilations:
* “Don’t Mix The Colors”, Kill Rock Stars, 1991, Kill Rock Stars
* “Spray”, Throw: The Yoyo Studio Compilation, 1992, Yoyo Recordings
* “Baseball Bat”, One Last Kiss, 1992, Spinart
* “Motorcycle Boy”, International Pop Underground Convention, 1995, K Records
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More in the 1982. Read Full Bio[1] Courtney Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is the lead singer, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Hole. Love is also a solo artist, an occasional model and actress. Love was born in San Francisco, California to psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, a short-lived manager for The Grateful Dead.
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More in the 1982. Shortly, she was kicked out of the band, due to the band wanting a male singer. Three years later, she formed an all-female pop-rock band called Sugar Babydoll with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch, and later - also with Bjelland - the Pagan Babies. Love had greater early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox’s Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox’s Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as small roles on television episodes.
Returning to music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Love claims she co-founded the all-female rock band Babes in Toyland with Kat Bjelland in 1987, but others deny it;. Acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love’s quick exit from the band. The band’s biographer claims she stole house receipts to a Butthole Surfers concert. In 1989, Love formed her own band, Hole, with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band’s 1991 debut album garnered little critical or popular attention in the United States but was celebrated in the influential British alternative-music press. Already a star in England, Hole’s fortunes improved considerably wtih Love’s marriage to Kurt Cobain and the publicity about Cobain’s death.
Unpopular with some Nirvana fans (comparisons to Yoko Ono were made early on and persist to this day), Love’s image was further tarnished by a 1992 article in Vanity Fair entitled “Strange Love,” in which she admitted to using heroin in the early stages of pregnancy. As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated the Cobains’ fitness as parents. Love claims to this day that she was misquoted, saying she had told author Lynn Hirschberg that she had stopped using it once she learned she was pregnant.
Like Axl Rose, Love was ridiculed in the press for her abrasive, sometimes erratic behavior, such as cursing at paparazzi and publicly harassing Cobain’s former girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord.
Shortly before the release of Hole’s breakthrough album Live Through This in April 1994, Cobain committed suicide. Love read his suicide note at a televised memorial a few days later, sobbing hysterically and alternately cursing her husband as a “fucking asshole” and pleading with him to come back. Hole's bassist Kristen Pfaff died of drug overdose two months later. She was replaced by Melissa Auf der Maur later that year.
Love was a fashion trend-setter. In her early career, she modelled a “kinderwhore” look, which she was accused of having ripped off from Bjelland, although other sources suggest that the ripoff was in fact in the opposite direction. Love stated that the look was inspired by Christina Amphlett of 1980s rock group The Divinyls, most famously in a lengthy phone message recorded and subsequently released by The Muffs, who had ironically titled their album Blonder and Blonder after a sarcastic quote by Love regarding lead singer Kim Shattuck. Love’s style has since evolved, and she has modeled for more sophisticated designer labels.
Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Milos Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt. She was also praised for her supporting role in the 1998 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon, which starred Jim Carrey as Kaufman. Other notable film credits include Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes, and Feeling Minnesota.
Love released solo album ‘America’s Sweetheart’ in 2004, which contained a lot of collaborative work with Brody Dalle of The Distillers. In 2010, she resurrected the Hole name with a new lineup and released ‘Nobody’s Daughter’; this album contains some tracks from the never released album ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’.
In late 2012, Love announced per a Twitter account that "Hole is dead", and confirmed she would return to performing as a solo artist under her own name. She also referred to an upcoming single she recorded, produced by James Iha. On December 29, 2012, Love performed an acoustic show in New York, and performed at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. Love has booked a tour of the east coast beginning in June 2013.
[2] Courtney Love is also the name of a band with Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley (Yoyo Recordings Founder). There are multiple explanations for the name, but this was before Love herself became famous. The duo would release three well-regarded 7” singles on K Records and a few compilation tracks, but no albums. They disbanded on 1991.
singles and EPs:
* Uncrushworthy 7” EP, 1990, K Records
* Highlights 7” EP, 1991, K Records
* Hey! Antoinette 7” EP, 1991, Feel Good All Over
compilations:
* “Don’t Mix The Colors”, Kill Rock Stars, 1991, Kill Rock Stars
* “Spray”, Throw: The Yoyo Studio Compilation, 1992, Yoyo Recordings
* “Baseball Bat”, One Last Kiss, 1992, Spinart
* “Motorcycle Boy”, International Pop Underground Convention, 1995, K Records
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Mono
Courtney Love Lyrics
Hey
Yeah
We had everything vinyl and mono
And we looked the other way
Man we were so dumb
Is the the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me
Yeah yeah yeah
Well they say that rock is dead
They're probably right
99 girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god please listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again
Hey
Give us brilliant boys we want to fuck man
Full of ecstasy hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah yeah yeah
Turn the lights back on
It burns so hard
But you won't burn long
Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
I don't think so
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say your sorry again
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god I'd give you anything to hear you say that I was right and you were wrong
Oh god before I leave this life
No and eight-ball isn't love
A hookers never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights to night
Yeah
2 million miles down the PCH
And now he's gone
I slashed his tires
I bled his brakes
It had to be done
Their hand job lives were just too cruel
Yeah mercy was done
We drown them all in their swimming pools
Run away run away run away yeah
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that you were wrong again
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that I am so much better than him
Oh god you owe us one more song
Just get out of my life
And see the world as it really is
Is this just a sad slide show
Can't make a hooker come
An eight ball isn't love
I need one thing that's divine
Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I gotta hear it tonight
You gotta let me here the one lost chord tonight
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Courtney M. Love, Linda Perry, Laurence Gregory Schemel, Patricia Theresa Schemel
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MateoPapiChulo
Despite Courtney being at one of the lowest points of her life with drugs while she was creating this album (America's Sweetheart), this record is surprisingly great! It's pure Punk Rock and it's a lot of fun!
Sucks that it didn't well on the charts. Even Courtney considers this record to be a disaster. I disagree.
I love it. Almost every song is great!
But Julian, I'm a bit too old for you
Mono
Hold On To Me
Sunset Strip
Uncool
I'll Do Anything
Hello
She's such an underrated & unappreciated artist! In my opinion, she's hasn't released a bad album. Even her last record, which sadly didn't do well either (Nobody's Daughter) is also great!
Gabriela De Jesus
Hey
Yeah
We had everything vinyl and mono
And we looked the other way
Man we were so dumb
Is the the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me
Yeah yeah yeah
Well they say that rock is dead
They're probably right
99 girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god please listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again
Hey
Give us brilliant boys we want to fuck man
Full of ecstasy hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah yeah yeah
Turn the lights back on
It burns so hard
But you won't burn long
Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
I don't think so
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say your sorry again
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god I'd give you anything to hear you say that I was right and you were wrong
Oh god before I leave this life
No and eight-ball isn't love
A hookers never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights to night
Yeah
2 million miles down the PCH
And now he's gone
I slashed his tires
I bled his brakes
It had to be done
Their hand job lives were just too cruel
Yeah mercy was done
We drown them all in their swimming pools
Run away run away run away yeah
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that you were wrong again
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that I am so much better than him
Oh god you owe us one more song
Just get out of my life
And see the world as it really is
Is this just a sad slide show
Can't make a hooker come
An eight ball isn't love
I need one thing that's divine
Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I gotta hear it tonight
You gotta let me here the one lost chord tonight
Compositores: Linda Perry / Courtney Love / Patty
Mark Anthony
Hey
Yeah
We had everything vinyl and mono
And we looked the other way
Man we were so dumb
Is the the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me
Yeah yeah yeah
Well they say that rock is dead
They're probably right
99 girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god please listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again
Hey
Give us brilliant boys we want to fuck man
Full of ecstasy hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah yeah yeah
Turn the lights back on
It burns so hard
But you won't burn long
Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
I don't think so
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say your sorry again
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him
Oh god I'd give you anything to hear you say that I was right and you were wrong
Oh god before I leave this life
No and eight-ball isn't love
A hookers never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights to night
Yeah
2 million miles down the PCH
And now he's gone
I slashed his tires
I bled his brakes
It had to be done
Their hand job lives were just too cruel
Yeah mercy was done
We drown them all in their swimming pools
Run away run away run away yeah
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that you were wrong again
Oh god I want to hear you say
I want to hear you say that I am so much better than him
Oh god you owe us one more song
Just get out of my life
And see the world as it really is
Is this just a sad slide show
Can't make a hooker come
An eight ball isn't love
I need one thing that's divine
Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I gotta hear it tonight
You gotta let me here the one lost chord tonight
Me N
This song is definitely good... She should have been more recognized for this. Underrated.
Onthemend991
Hole are underrated ❤
Dave legathan
if she was a burns victim
Vince Raffa
O
LEE VIEW
this should have more fucking views!!!!
Leon Heindl
@Arielle Edwards why?
Arielle Edwards
No it shouldn’t Courtney sucks
MateoPapiChulo
Despite Courtney being at one of the lowest points of her life with drugs while she was creating this album (America's Sweetheart), this record is surprisingly great! It's pure Punk Rock and it's a lot of fun!
Sucks that it didn't well on the charts. Even Courtney considers this record to be a disaster. I disagree.
I love it. Almost every song is great!
But Julian, I'm a bit too old for you
Mono
Hold On To Me
Sunset Strip
Uncool
I'll Do Anything
Hello
She's such an underrated & unappreciated artist! In my opinion, she's hasn't released a bad album. Even her last record, which sadly didn't do well either (Nobody's Daughter) is also great!
Jo L
This woman is perfect example of self strength, confidence & drive for music.
Courtney love Cobain is amazing, all the haters out there are just ignorant & jealous! They can’t take her down 👍
pablo_1bar
This woman is perfect example of gold digger