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List Price: $28.98 | | Label: EMI Europe Generic
Salesrank: 32061
Released: February 9, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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America's Sweetheart 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
Editorial Review:
"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".
America's Sweetheart Reviews:
good album, good thrashing music 
2009-04-14 - good album, fun to just break stuff to. better than celebrity skin but not by much.
Courtney Love is America's Sweetheart 
2009-03-05 - America's Sweetheart is very similar to Courtney Love's former band, Hole. Their last album, Celebrity Skin, shares many of the sounds that Courtney has polished on her own in this solo album. Although many people may criticize her public image there is no denying that her confrontational, honest lyrics make this an entertaining and enjoyable listen.
Another great CD..
2009-02-03 - I let this Cd slip past me on the inital release and I am annoyed at myself for not getting it earlier. Great variance of tone, intensity, and lyrics. Courtney Love's got another hit. I can't wait until the next cd!
Love makes the world go 'round.
2009-01-03 - Is 12 track albums the new T?, Anywho, Finally! She's off on her own! I know there was alot of confusion between Courtney and her label when this album was in it's final stages. A lot of the songs were scraped from the tracklist and furthermore the remaining tracks weren't finalized properly in loves own words. "America's Sweetheart" shouldv'e been a really big album considering this is Courtney Love's very first solo record. Although it's unfinished I still work with what's available. To be honest I rated this album a tad bit too high, It should actually be 3 stars instead of 4, Hopefully my readers get this far in my review. I just hate that it's time she wont ever get back. Basically all I want is Courtney's voice coming through my headphones, Who cares about the band? (No disrespect to Melissa.) Not only does this album come off as being incomplete but I don't like the order of the songs. "Hello" shouldv'e been the opening number to "America's Sweetheart" how could they overlook this?! The song is a fresh burst of gritty punk-rock rhythm that cuts right to the point of things. A song titled "Hello" should not be track 10 especially with it's energy. The songs are just completely out-of-order which takes points, something so small can determine how the album is recieved by the listener. I had to burn the CD and put the songs in proper order all on my own, this was an inconvenience, it sucked. Not all the songs are good, But the ones that are good really push it through. "But Julian, I'm A Little Bit Older Than You" would sound great after "Hello", It's still fabulous though. "Hold On To Me" is another banger from this album, I had everyone I know singing this song and they never even heard it before- I couldn't get this song out of my head- It has that classic alternative-rock vibe and great lyrics too. "I'll Do Anything" is another track with massive punk-rock-grit, This song is all-over-the-place, I love it, the lyrics are pretty filthy too (Just the way I Love it). "Almost Golden" is musically something P!NK would love applying her vocals to, P!nk's pop/rock trademark is all over this one. Courtney also gets emotional by giving us a heartwrenching ballad at the last few minutes of the record, A rock ballad titled "Never Be The Same Again" it's pretty alarming, she sounds alot like Joan Jett on this one- it's the most vulnerable she's been in awhile. So, What's done is done, this my friend -is- "America's Sweetheart"- There you have it. This album should be taken with a grain of salt due to the record company and alot of the confusion that went on during this album's release. "America's Sweetheart" is not the best attempt for Courtney Love at her first solo record, The last few stages were done without love's consent. It wouldv'e been better accepted if it were marked as being an EP, perhaps with a few live versions of some songs 4 or 5 main songs & some CDROM footage. I must say even some unfinished material is better than shelved or postponed material- So there "is" a brightside to all of this. Before I wrap it all up I just have to comment on the artwork which was done by OLIVIA, It's so GOOD!. Hopefully everything falls through the next time around (If There happends to be a next time) Damn.
O-B-G-Y, G-Y-N, Triple XXX
2008-09-23 - 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.
