Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart

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Music Review: A Suicide Mission to Save Rock and Roll
Rating: 5 Stars

It starts in "Mono" with the opening lines:

"Hey yeah we had everything
Vinyl in mono
And we looked the other way man
We were so dumb
Is this the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me

Well they say that rock is dead
And they're probably right"

All said over a hook that is eerily reminiscent of the MTV promo music of the early days when we all thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and continues with:

"Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you, you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
And I don't think so

Oh god I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you're sorry again
Oh god you owe me one more song
So I could prove to you
That I'm so much better than them
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
Now enable us to love
A hook is never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights tonight"

In "But Julian, I'm a Little Bit Older Than You", she calls forth the ghosts of The Clash and the Ramones and wonders how she can stand with those gods:

"I'm overrated, desecrated
Still somehow illuminated
I know I've got a screw loose
Just meet me in the bedroom
I know you did this, what a punk
You would never sell out
Just like I did in Playboy
That was all, it didn't count"

In "Sunset Strip"(one of the best songs on the whole record), she sets straight those of us who still have hope of Rock's resurrection:

"Rock star, pop star, everybody dies

All tomorrow's parties
They have happened tonight
And I know that I won't see tomorrow"

"Yesterday's girl or tomorrow's hot teens
Were you jerking off to her
Or were you jerking off to me?
And I know, that I won't know tomorrow"

"I've got voices screaming in my head
Are you jerking off in your bed?
It's not punk, it's not cool
It's not even boring
And it's not Eminem who's gonna save me"

And this leads to the anger of "All the Drugs" which has one of the best opening lines in rock lyric history:

"The devil's driving my car tonight and he's drunk
He's pissed he's mad
And I don't care which of you he f**Ks up"

She carries over this threat in the song "The Zeplin Song"(consciously misspelled) and calls us all out for being content to wallow in the past with the old music while we let the new music go to Hell:

"Play the same 'ol lead again & again..

Sometimes I gotta say shutup
Sometimes I gotta say so what
I don't think that it's so punk
What's with the Zeplin song

Sometimes I gotta ride
Sometimes I gotta hide
Sometimes I press rewind
I gotta throw the trash out
He's on a stairway to hell
Yeah that is him
Playin' the zeplin song again & again & again & again & again & again

I'm a guitar
Honest pop single cut away
Please don't play that song on me again
I'll explode
I'll break all my strings, stop playing s**t
Like the Sex Pistols are anything

Why does he rain on my parade?
Why does the song remain the same?"

And she answers these questions with the final track: "Never Gonna Be the Same"

"And if I wanted fame
All the glory all the womb?
And if I want my name emblazoned in all the light in you
And if I wanted Christ or a Messiah by my side
I can't believe in anything I know that Mary lied
Sucked you up today
Could've got away
Oh Mary lied
Do you know
Can you feel it
Do you feel me
Yeah
And if you wanted madness and if you want what's pure
Well you gotta come over to me baby my life doesn't reach to you and
If you want so unconditional and real you gotta ride
That black horse baby through the depths of hell that I've been follow
Me away
I will be the same
Strongest one to name
Through the valley of life
I'm gonna be the same
Goodnight goodnight goodnight
Ah goodnight
Oh you'll never be the same"

Yes.....after listening to this album you'll never be the same if you care anything about music.......Will music be the same? Probably. I doubt this album will even be a hit. The video for "Mono" might get played a few times...just as a novelty...see what the widow is up to.....and then right back to the crap that passes these days. Many won't even hear the sound.....that faint hammering....that comes from this record.

After all it's just the last nail going in to Rock's coffin.......but say, wasn't it fun while it lasted?

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