Hole are back! But not in the way you or anyone else would like!
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Share on FacebookSome time around 2004, DiS got mildly excited when Courtney Love released her first single as a solo artist. Many would disagree, but 'Mono' was something of a choon, and hopes were medium high that parent album America's Sweetheart would be as fine an outlet for the pop side of Ms Love as Hole's swansong, Celebrity Skin.
The next few months are a little blurry - a vague recollection of wandering into A&B Sounds in Vancouver and purchasing the record, followed by a red mist that only lifted when we'd basically forgotten what it sounded like. Which wasn't that long, fortunately.
Anyhoo, the former wife of Cobain has spent the last five years arguing with people about money and barking like a lunatic on Twitter, occasionally breaking off to make an NME journalist feel important by beckoning them aside to tell them about her second solo opus, the long due - if not overly anticipated - Nobody's Daughter.
The latest twist in the saga is that in her most recent taking aside of an NME journalist, she's declared that Nobody's Daughter will be a Hole album, due later this year. Ah, well it'll be good to have Melissa and Eric around to steady her up, eh?
Video: Courtney Love: 'Mono'
Er. Yeah. Quite aside from the monumental egotism of retaining a singular title for the record, Eric Erlandson isn't aboard, and Melissa Auf Der Maur only appears in a limited capacity.
Instead co-writer and guitar credits fall to Micko Larrikin, formerly of Larrikin Love; you never really know how these things happen, but given Ms Love's fondness for the in crowd, we'd conclude Larrikin's selection comes about because his old band's fleeting existence must have coincided with the last time Courtney, reality, and the UK happened to have a partial overlap.
Sayeth la femme Love:
The rock Courtney didn't really go away, but I needed a rock partner. I have my rock partner now.
Wise words. DiS wouldn't be so churlish as to write off Larrikin as a 'rock partner' on the grounds that Larrikin Love made straight up Brit indie with a few interesting folk flourishes. Nope, the man may have hidden depths.
However, even if he turns out to be the single most talented human being ever to weird an axe, we're still fairly confident in saying that if Nobody's Daughter isn't a strong candidate for the worst album of the decade, it will only be because a) America's Sweetheart was released this decade and b) Nobody's Daughter probably won't be.
However, if it sounds like the below, then, uh, we'll call it even, yeah, Courtney?
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Courtney Love
Hole
Larrikin Love
Was listening to Live Through This
last night.
Remembered what an amazing album it really is.
Conversely I just sold my copy of America's Sweetheart for £2 and feel like a swindler.
This can never be good. I'm convinced she's lost forever.
Brave man lukowski!
"if Nobody's Daughter isn't a strong candidate for the worst album of the decade, it will only be because a) America's Sweetheart was released this decade and b) Nobody's Daughter probably won't be".
:-D
The woman is BATSHIT, and if she reads this you'll be ON HER LIST!!
I'm going to Tweet her a link to this article, Andrzej...
!!! Not really. But it could be quite fun...
...
Is it shocking to say I actually didn't mind 'Americas Sweetheart'? I bought it for £2 and think it was worth that as it had about 4 tunes on it I liked. Having said that, I can't remember a) what it sounds like now and b) where it is, which aren't good signs.
Still, it's not THAT bad surely?!
Spot on
Courtney should not be allowed to make music until these important criteria have been met:
a/ Eric Erlandson goes mad and agrees to work with her again
b/ Linda Perry has been dead for at least 5 years
c/ she stops dicking around with crap UK musicians from crap bands that didn't even write the songs in them
d/ she stops trying to outstrip Billy Corgan in the title for lamest 'reunion' ever
e/ she admits that Billy Corgan and Linda Perry are both horrible, soul-devoid twats and that 'Beautiful' was in fact totally shit, not good like she once said
and, future technology permitting...
f/ she goes back in time to univent crack cocaine, therefore rescuing her vocal chords... and while she's there, pushes Gavin Rossdale off the side of a tall building while she has the chance
Please update me via Twitter when all this is complete.
top hole, andrzej
I remember quite enjoying some of La Love's new ones at that Bush Hall gig a while back, but the new album's absolutely atrocious.
I have a copy of Nobody's Daughter
It's gash country rock balladeering.
New Hole woudl eb amazing but it isn't really going to be Hole now, is it?
Crying shame.
there is a second video which makes you beg that they would mix the album properly. like turn down the vocals turn up the guitars.
Mono WAS good wasn't it.
I liked it anyway
Was it just me or....
...could this band never play live?
Live through this is such a fucking underrated album though. I just wish there was some other output to match it.
stupid whore
Nice Lips...
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