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List Price: $9.49 | | Label: EMI/Virgin
Salesrank: 466873
Released: March 16, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
Taken from the 2004 album 'America's Sweetheart'. The title track is b/w three non-LP tracks, ''Fly' & 'Mono' (Alternate Version) along with the enhanced video for the title track. Parental Advisory - Explicit Content. Virgin.
Mono Pt.2 Reviews:
Great Song 
2006-06-03 - Courtney Love's MONO is a great song, I don't have the single but the song is amazing I'm going to buy it sometime, just to have the video!
Courtney tries to prove that she is so much better than him 
2005-11-01 - "Mono" is the first track on Courtney Love's ironically titled album "America's Sweetheart," and right from the opening blast the widow Cobain announces she is back with a vengeance and the primary target is her dearly departed husband:
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
By the time Love howls in the chorus "Oh god you owe me one more song/ So I can prove to you that/ I'm so much better than him" it becomes clear these songs are going to wallow in the wretched existence that has been her life for the past decade. She might be hurt, but she is also angry, and she proceeds to eviscerate just about every aspect of her "pornorific" life from to the "hard drugs and bad luck" to the "lots and lots of meaningless sex." The only thing she does not touch upon is motherhood, which simply proves that that by not singing about Frances Bean she telegraphs what is the only inviolate part of her current existence.
The alternative version of "Mono" is interesting and it is always nice to have a music video, but the main attraction for this CD-single is "Fly," which was not on the original "America's Sweetheart" album but is included as the last track on the extended edition (but if you have the original album it makes more sense to pick up this single than buy another version for just one song, unless you bought the "clean" version, in which case the question is what were you thinking? Excising a few bad words does not because to dilute the visceral lyrics of these songs). The opening lyrics of the song again make it clear there is one major topic on Love's agenda:
Look at me, I'm alive
I wanna jump but I don't know why.
Don't wanna live, don't wanna die,
Just wanna see if I can fly.
I'm desperate, I'm glorious
I'm going down with a vengeance
Hold onto me, hold on tight
And let's just see who gets out alive
Obviously she wins that one on default, but you can understand the larger meaning involved. Working with songwriting collaborator Linda Perry the sound of "America's Sweetheart" is not as raw as what Love and Hole produced for "Live Through This." But the music just provides the energy for Love to get through the public exorcism of these rambling lyrics whose coherence comes primarily out of her personal pain. This is not surprising given that she has had a decade of being beaten over the head with the reality that she is the Jackie Kennedy of the Grunge generation, so it is not like there is any place or any reason to hide. Now she has found a note of grace in having produced an album that I think is on the same level of "Live Through This" she can make the case that her talent is not a fluke, just her fate. The question is now whether she has anything to say beyond what is fueled by the anger at her husband's betrayal. It is hard to believe she can really sing about Kurt Cobain forever and if she really wants to be more than a musical footnote to his legacy the next album is going to be the one that decides if she has any sort of chance.
I slashed his tires, I bled his brakes...
2004-06-27 - In the grand tradition of opening album tracks (Teenage Wh*re,Violet, and Celebrity Skin), Courtney starts her new album off with a bang. "Mono" is the first single off of her amazing new album.The sad thing is, it won't really be heard here in the U.S., we're still hooked on Avril and the like, and its a shame...C.Lo still has some of the best lyrics and vocals in rock these days."Fly" is a great non-album track, which is worth the price of admission alone.Also, there is an alternate version of "Mono" on this single, with a rougher, more garage feel.Thank god Courtney's back...
RIP-ROARING ROCK 'N ROLL
2004-04-12 - "Fly" is a great outtake from the "America's Sweetheart" sessions and "Mono" is the lead-off track that kicks in with a fury I would think UNDENIABLE to anyone who loves hard rock. Courtney really IS the queen of noise, and her instincts with melody, chord changes, and lyrics is remarkable.
Courtney, please go home... 
2004-03-25 - I don't own this particular CD single, but I bought her full length CD when it came out. I also recently purchased Melissa Auf der Maur's debut solo album too, which doesn't hit stateside until May. For those of you out there keeping score:
Melissa: 10 Courtney: zip, nada....
I don't know. I think Courtney's going thru some bad stuff right now, especially after last week's episodes.
Get some help, NOW honey...
HOLE this ain't.
Buyers beware.
