America Don't Love Courtney

Advantages: Well, it's listenable
Disadvantages: It's not actually any good though, better off with Hole

...Despite constantly being in the headlines ? mostly for drug charges recently ? you have to wonder just how far Courtney Love?s singing and acting career would have got if she hadn?t been Mrs Kurt Cobain. Her former band Hole certainly made the most of the grunge association to release three albums. Courtney?s solo debut doesn?t deviate too far from Hole?s legacy, but seems to combine elements of all three of their albums. The vocal style is definitely more in the singing style of Celebrity Skin. Otherwise, however, it?s not quite as polished as that album, and somewhere between Pretty On The Inside and Live Through This. I?d say the song-writing is closer to the former (i.e. fairly poor), but at least the production?s better than Hole?s debut. The opening track ?Mono? is probably the best the album has to offer ? and the only...

a-true-ben 02.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of America's Sweetheart - Courtney Love

Kurt and Courtney

Advantages: useful interviews,information
Disadvantages: finding out Courtney Love has rights over most of Nirvana's music

...Any fan of Kurt Cobain( Lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana) and knowing some background on Kurt's death (supposidly suicide) ;watching this Nick Broomfield documentary, sheds light on the time around Kurt's death :- Wether he was suicidal or not. Nick Broomfield (documentarist of Kurt and Courtney, Biggie and Tupac...) shows us many interviews that leads us to put Courtney Love( Kurt's wife) into the limelight of having something to do with Kurt's Death and that Kurt may not have been suicidal in the first place. As a documentary, it really is spectacular. I studied this as one of the modern documentaries for my media studies course. Nick Broomfield always takes that one step further to get information and this I find respectful, Nick really is enthusiastic about his work. Unlike most other documentaries the director, in this case...

lemons89 05.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Kurt And Courtney (DVD)

FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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What was courtney thinking when she recorded this?

Advantages: good first track
Disadvantages: the rest of the album leaves something to be disired

...Courtney Love is famous for being in Hole and most famous for being married to Kurt Cobain. She may have been noticed in the headlines for drug taking and criminal charges but she has finally released her first solo album. Americas Sweetheart is a mediocre album nowhere near as good as Holes albums. The first track on the album 'Mono' and the first single is definitely the best song on the album by far, its loud and aggressive and gives of a good vibe and makes you think great things are coming on the rest of the album, but that's not the way it is. The rest of the album is much quieter and blends into each other. Track 7 'I'll Do Anything' guitar riffs sound just like a speeded up version of 'smells like teen spirit'. My favourite tracks are definitely Mono and All The Drugs the rest of the album I could either take it or leave it...

gemma_lucy 30.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of America's Sweetheart - Courtney Love

Science & Courtney Cox!

Advantages: Excellent soundtrack
Disadvantages: Slighty pants plot.

...The movie itself was a pilot for a tv series, it does seem to loosely be based on Scooby Doo (at least it does to me anyway) with the Misfits travelling around to their various crime fighting adventures in an Icecream truck (which they aquire so they are able to carry around a defrosting Iceman to keep him alive and sufficiently cold enough to maintain his power) It's not bad but its not awful. From initially reading the cast list I only knew Courtney Cox (from Friends, of course) and Larry Linville (who is better known as Frank Burns from MASH). I eventually managed to recognise Senator Donner as Otto from "Malcolm In The Middle" though! There might not be much of a plot and the effects might be really awful & cheesy but the cool 80's music and the goofy 80's fashions do a great deal to save this film from being really awful...

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Review of Misfits Of Science

Poem for Courtney

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Disadvantages: *

...--- This is an anonymous poem I found after Courtney died. We changed it a little to make it more appropriate and asked one of her doctors to read it at her funeral. I would like to thank whoever wrote it, as it summed up feelings I couldn't communicate myself at the time. --- They sometimes said of her days on earth, Better by far if she'd have died at birth. How could they know? How could they tell the joy she'd bring? She taught our hearts the way to sing, We loved her so. We learned together through the years To show the joy, but hide the tears. They must not see. They'd never learn the hurt they caused Through thoughtless stares that on her paused So carelessly. We never grieved, as she grew To see the small things she could do No praise she'd lose. Her progress made in life's tough school We measured...

sunnyfox 02.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Poetry

YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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Come As You Are

Advantages: It's made by the great Nick Broomfield
Disadvantages: none

...Nirvana. Heaven. Nick Broomfield scores a another massive hit. Not in junkie terms you understand, but with this long hard look at the life and death of Kurt Cobain. Tracking down the one person in Kurt's childhood who seemed to love and understand him more than most, we are introduced to his aunt. She clearly loved and encouraged Kurt throughout his early years, playing old music tapes of him from as young as 2 years of age, as he established his love of singing and music. It's at this point that the spectre of Courtney Love first flits across the story. Despite Kurt's aunt being in possession of taped early recordings of the teenage Cobain, permission to reproduce the music on the documentary is denied. Songs produced by his teenage friends are played instead. A typical off-the-cuff meeting is then arranged with a teacher...

Salgirl 10.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Kurt And Courtney (DVD)

Music Doc heaven

Advantages: Great doc, great DVD
Disadvantages: Maybe not so great for non-Nirvana fans?

...One of the more controversial documentaries in recent memory, Kurt and Courtney deserves a revisit. Filmmaker Nick Broomfield initially intended to make a film about Nirvana lead singer/ cultural icon's influences and how he has come to change the face of rock music, in other words his first music doc. However when he was denied rights to Nirvana material being played in the documentary by Cobain's infamous widow Courtney Love, Broomfield went to investigate why, and how, this had come about. The result is a fascinating documentary about freedom of speech and the extent to which people will try and protect both their privacy and their own images. Throughout the course of the movie Courtney Love's presence can be felt; if it's from half-heard conversations through doors and walls, conversations with her father or testimonials from...

Rosebud1985 27.07.2005 · Read review
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