Track Listing

1. Mono
2. But Julian, I'm a Little Older Than You
3. Hold On To Me
4. Sunset Strip
5. All The Drugs
6. Almost Golden
7. I'll Do Anything
8. Uncool
9. Life Despite God
10. Hello
11. Zeplin Song
12. Never Gonna Be the Same

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43849 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Album Details
"america's Sweetheart" is Courtney's Eagerly Anticipated Solo Debut, the Follow-up to Hole's Two Gold Certified Major Label Releases, 1994's Classic "Live Through This" and 1998's Grammy Award-nominated "Celebrity Skin". The Album Is, in the Main Part, Written by Love, with Assistance from Linda Perry, the Ex Four Non Blonde Whose Writing Has Launched the Likes of Pink and Christina Aguilera Into the Stratosphere. "America's Sweetheart" is the Most Exhilarating Album of her Career to Date. It's Pure and Unadulterated, Raw and Relentless, Smart, Brassy, Candid and Uncompromising - Just What You'd Expect from Ms Love. The Album Rocks in a Big Way but is Choc-full of Great Tunes, Particularly the Album's Second Single "Hold on to Me" and the Epic "Sunset Strip".

Customer Reviews

O-B-G-Y, G-Y-N, Triple XXX
Forget the Courtney you thought you knew. She's not coming back. Instead you get a Linda Perry-(over)produced record filled with guitar goo, bad vocals and embarrassingly juvenile lyrics. The songwriting has went downhill since the 1994 masterpiece "Live Through This" and she's not even upset about it. The last time we've heard from her, it was on the glossy "Celebrity Skin". A lot has changed since then: her vocals have been tortured by her own excesses and all those parties, drugs, alcohol and rocking-out lifestyle had a huge effect on her mindset. Glitter fades in the morning, as she would tell ya. In "Life Despite God", a personal favorite, she can barely get the words out of her mouth. "Were you jerking off to her? Were you jerking off to me?" she screams at the top of her voice in "Sunset Strip", leaving you filled with doubt and dare.

She exchanged the murderville of "Pretty On The Inside" for a shiny Californian extravaganza, but nothing sounds right. Still, in its own twisted way, "America's Sweetheart" remains majestic. No matter who wrote the lyrics this time around, they satisfied the Courtney-obsessed minority (I'm standing right here). It's all been said before, but it doesn't hurt to hear it one more time. The riffs seem like recycled ones, but they still manage to soothe. She came back to sex up Julian Casablancas, save us from not-so-lucid dreams about Hollywood and burn those anorexic magazines in our closet. She's not even aware that her battlefield is a long forgotten place that didn't even have the winner. Actually, she might not have been aware that it was 2004, a bad time to start a solo career with a post-grunge tone.

The opening riff of "Mono" comes like a typical Court call to arms and can be interpreted as her own criticism of music criticism and the music in general ("Is this the part of the book that you wrote where I gotta come and save the day?"). After it she yells: "Did you miss me?"; in Hold On To Me she states "this life is never fair"--her guess is as good as yours. It seems as if the girl from "Live Through This" had a sudden change of heart: check out "All The Drugs" with thick guitar melodies and made-on-the-spot lyrics; our "Doll Parts" heroine is unrecognizable. Yet she still manages to be catty. Check out the phenomenal "I'll Do Anything" where she takes one of the most pivotal riffs in rock history and mixes it up with lyrics such as "give me ice cream for my birthday" (you can practically see Nirvana partisans burning with rage). Elsewhere, she makes allusions to her favorite punk records ("I hear London Calling"/"gabba gabba hey"), sings about how she wants to be uncool and has no desires. The closest you get to a war recital you might have expected from her is "Zeplin Song", a story of how one guy drove her crazy with his constant playing of "Stairway To Heaven". She'll always be more of a celebrity than a musician, but you love her all the same.

"America's Sweetheart" is not for fans of good music. It's not for Hole fans either. It's for that small portion of Courtney's fanbase that loves her for being a pop culture icon that waltzes on the red carpet filled with OxyContin, plays it dirty with Russell Brand and wears angel wings yelling stuff like "wax my anus". It's the same as bad porn: cheesy and forgettable. But it works all the better for some of us. "America's Sweetheart" is here for those who strive beyond and see what a twisted and glorious individual Love is. We wouldn't want her any other way.

Such a great great album
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A cd I did NOT expect to love this much
Having heard hole and never really been that big of fan, I randomly got this cd since it was used and cheap. I have to say this honest to god is a great cd and I'm thinking maybe I missed something from never giving hole a chance ( i saw them open for manson once and back in lollapalooza 95 i think). There's so much baggage that comes with her name alone that it's enough to frighten off most people. But listen to the sample amazon gives you and ignore all the tabloid nonsense. I Hate to have her constanstly in Kurt's shadow. Unlike Yoko to John, Courtney to Kurt actually has the talent to stand on her own. And that's something to say.