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Courtney Love: Bands
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Years before Courtney Love was a world-famous blogger/paparazzi magnet, she was the frontwoman for a pretty decent band that was pigeonholed in one of the worst-named genres ever. ("Teenage Whore" is still a classic, maybe even moreso now.) [lamestain]
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In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and set out to form her own band. To do so, she placed an ad in an issue of Flipside, to which Eric Erlandson replied. Love and Erlandson co-founded Hole and are the only two members to remain constant throughout the band's history. The group made their first gig in November 1989, after three months of rehearsal, and quickly started releasing singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The band's debut album Pretty on the Inside was released in early 1991 on Caroline Records and was produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Don Fleming of the band Gumball. It sold well for an independent release and received ecstatic reviews in the influential British alternative music press.[18] During this period, she befriended many influential figures in the alternative rock scene, including Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
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In 1990, Love founded the rock band, Hole. Their first album was the universally lauded Pretty On The Inside. Their next release, Live Through This, topped nearly every critic's music poll for 1994, and was certified platinum in April of 1995. Hailed by critics as an ambitious and triumphant collection of songs, Hole's third album, double platinum Celebrity Skin, was released in September 1998 and garnered three Grammy nominations.
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Love and Bjelland later formed a band called The Pagan Babies in San Francisco, with Deidre Schletter on drums and Janis Tanaka on bass.[16] The band recorded a demo of four tracks, then ejected Love and renamed themselves Italian Whorenuns. Lastly, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bjelland started what ultimately would become her longest-running band, Babes in Toyland. Love briefly played bass, but was kicked out of this group as well.[17] Love had more early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox's Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as some small roles on television episodes.
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Have you been wondering about the status of Courtney Love's second solo album? Well, today she put up a blog post that sort of lets people know what the deal is! "i wont drop an album i am not yet comfortable with- im not goofing off and getting nuerotic aboput whatever i try to write - im ina real band and i want that to really come through- so im sorry..." After some chatter about making "mood boards," she goes on: more
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With no money and no job, Courtney tried to become a stripper but none of the local clubs would hire her because was "too fat". So she headed back to LA in 1989 and formed the band Hole. Their debut album called Pretty on the Inside didn't burn up the charts, but it did establish them as viable musicians.
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