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More Courtney Love/Bob Dylan Comparisons, Lil Wayne Channels Batman, David Banda’s Birth Father Misunderstands “Adoption”

10/23/06, 9:02 am EST

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  • We are Courtney Love fans. Even now. Still rooting for her. And we were following along pretty well in this update about the new Courtney Love/Linda Perry album (out sometime next year) until we encountered this quote from Perry: “Courtney Love’s name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.” First Moby, now Perry. Help us help you, guys. Sigh.
  • We were feeling sorry for Yohane Banda, birth father of Madonna’s new adopted Malawian child, but now he’s just gone totally insane with claims that he never thought Madonna wanted to “make [David] her own.” Banda reportedly said, “It would have been better for him to continue staying at the orphanage because I see no reason why my child should be given away forever when I can feed him.”
  • A recent Lil Wayne show at Morgan State University was reminiscent of that scene in Batman when Jack Nicholson’s Joker throws bills out into the crowd, except without the green tear gas or the Prince tunes. Three women were injured in the chaos that resulted as people tried to collect the cash being thrown offstage, though it’s unclear if Wayne was directly involved.
  • The International Mixtape Project sounds a lot like a chain letter scheme, but with, you know, mixtapes. In other words, we want to part of this but it could be cool.
  • Clash drummer Terry Chimes discusses his current life as a yoga-doing vegetarian chiropractor.
  • Billy Bragg heading out on an anti-fascism tour.

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Chris | 10/23/2006, 10:44 am EST

All the book reviewers at Entertainment Weekly, People, Us Weekly etc. can`t wait for the release of Courtney`s new book. I get the feeling CLove will be telling the general public things she would`ve been better off telling a professional therapist who could`ve helped her out,instead of going the public humiliation route once again ,but she did get a million dollar advance for this book from her publisher.

George | 10/23/2006, 11:09 am EST

Courtney Love’s a heroine for the ages! She rocks!

Mark | 10/23/2006, 11:14 am EST

If Kurtney Love is such a good lyricist, why’s she working with a hack like Perry?

Need I remind you all that Linda Perry and her Non-Blondes were a forgotten joke until Xtina dragged her up. And that “I am Beautiful” song didn’t exactly break new ground.

George Myers | 10/23/2006, 11:25 am EST

I hope she gets off the dunking stool with the book. I thought her and Kevin Bacon were excellant villains in that film. I can’t think of too many entertainers I’ve seen with their daughter on an aircraft carrier.

Banjo | 10/23/2006, 11:30 am EST

i respect Courtney Love, but don’t ever use her name in the same sentence as Bob Dylan’s unless he’s driving her into battle in Iraq. She’s a tank.

OK | 10/23/2006, 11:32 am EST

Go, Courtney! She is the Modern Queen of Rock N Roll!

Madonna Hater | 10/23/2006, 11:45 am EST

George got it wrong, Courtney Love’s been on Heroin for ages.

Aaron D. | 10/23/2006, 11:51 am EST

Mark, Linda Perry’s list of production and songwriting credentials was miles long before Christina Aguilera tapped her.

While I’ll never put her in the same room as Dylan, Courtney is a talented artist. Her off-stage antics is what has really tainted her perception by the public. Live Through This and Celebrity Skin were two very, very good albums.

Dazed & Confused | 10/23/2006, 12:53 pm EST

…ha ha…comparing Love to Bob Dylan is a joke…like comparing Harlquin Romances to Shakespeare or Dickens…somebody needs to wake up…where would she be had she not leeched onto KC…would we even know who she is…she’s destined to be a footnote in the annals of Rock n’ Roll…maybe….probably best forgotten altogether!

SATAN | 10/23/2006, 1:38 pm EST

WASN’T COURTNEY POKING BILLY CORGAN BACK IN THE DIZZAY??? NICE ONE, BILLY. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE THROWING A BROOM DOWN A HALLWAY.

ANYHOO, COURTNEY LOVE=OXYGEN THIEF.

Sean | 10/23/2006, 1:55 pm EST

Courtney Love compared to Bob Dylan? Maybe if you compare to Courtney Love’s best to Bob Dylan’s questionable songwriting (i.e. Saved! and Down in the Groove) but that is about where the comparison ends

Love cup | 10/23/2006, 2:28 pm EST

My nipples are numb.

Hank56 | 10/23/2006, 2:32 pm EST

As an old music lover, believe me, I know Bob Dylan and although I was never really into Courtney Love’s music, I must admit that she’s really up there when it comes to lyrics. Her music, I dont know, but her poetry is amazing…

K | 10/23/2006, 2:36 pm EST

Dylan never killed any of his spouses, unlike Courtney.

recalcitrantpriest | 10/23/2006, 2:43 pm EST

She killed Kurt? Wow, so she killed her husband and managed to make two better albums than any Nirvana ever made? Damn! She must be quite smart to do all that and not get caught!!!

courtney love | 10/23/2006, 2:51 pm EST

Who is Bob Dylan?

Tom | 10/23/2006, 2:57 pm EST

From what I`ve heard so far, Producer Linda Perry & Billy Corgan are doing the bulk of all the songwriting with Courtney just supplying the lyrics. Instead of this being labeled a Courtney solo project, maybe they should call the new CD, Perry, Corgan & Love instead. Probably would sell more copies that way.

mAmbA | 10/23/2006, 3:08 pm EST

yeah courtney definitely is up there..she is underrated as a song writer..she has very really cool and deep lyrics..everyone just disagrees because of her crazy lifestyle!

korrina | 10/23/2006, 3:30 pm EST

actually, Tom, most of these songs were written by herself and a guitar during her stint in rehab. What Corgan and Linda are doing is tweaking and perfecting.

ryan | 10/23/2006, 4:26 pm EST

HAHHAHAH
the only lyrics courtney love can even write are the tatoos she’s reading off all the guys she’s banging. bob dylan for the win, always

speechless | 10/23/2006, 5:38 pm EST

courtney will burn. i mean really, her to Bob Dylan?? The only thing Id compare her to is a peice of poo, and Id be even giving the poo an insult by saying that. shes just leeching on Kurt…again.

J | 10/23/2006, 6:06 pm EST

Not as good as Dylan, but neither was Cobain. Get over it people, she didn’t kill your beloved Jesus substitute. All the crack and heroin and tit-showing won’t change that.

SATAN | 10/23/2006, 6:10 pm EST

MICHAEL STIPE KILLED COBAIN!!! HE WANTED THAT STARFISH FO HIMSELF AND COURTNEY WOULDN’T LET HIM HAVE IT!!!

Russell | 10/23/2006, 7:25 pm EST

Ever since courtney`s publicity seeking arrests in 2004, we now have a couple more sid & nancy wannabes roaming the earth in the form of Babyshambles guitarist pete doherty & model kate moss, let the never ending court appearances begin!.

Whatever | 10/23/2006, 11:31 pm EST

Yup, Courtney is as good as Dylan, just like the guy writing greeting card verse is as good as Shakespeare.

Simba | 10/24/2006, 12:31 am EST

Didn’t she just put Cobain’s lyrics on sale??

Little Oscar | 10/24/2006, 7:46 am EST

Courtney and Dylan — are you kiddin’ me??? She’s an artist, yes — in the same vein (no pun intended) as Kurt, The Runaways, and Pussycat Dolls. But rank her with a legend? I’ll have to find another music site to read….

Agustina | 10/24/2006, 11:22 am EST

I love Courtney, but…next to Dylan…I Don`t Think So.He`s one of the greatest of all times… She`s not…

Bloodonthefacts | 10/24/2006, 3:02 pm EST

Linda Linda Linda
your all buying into her shit. courtney is the perfect example of the old no press is bad press routine. sure courtneys name should be right next to bob dylan when people mention best lyrists of all time, if the sentance reads, “the greatest lyrists of all time is Bob Dylan; Courtney Love, however, is a trainwreck that wont quit crashing even though the bystanders quit watching in the late nineties.

Huxley | 10/24/2006, 3:22 pm EST

Most people commenting on Courtney don’t even know her lyrics. They’re commenting on what they’ve seen on Access Hollywood. It’s a lot harder to take a listen and give her respect for what she’s been through and where she wants to go.

emit time | 10/27/2006, 6:53 am EST

ok but like
“out on the winding road/i couldn’t wait/cause baby i was afraid” or “in your endless summer night/i’ll be on the other side, when the water is too deep/i will ease your suffering/ when the glitter fades in morning/turn away and you defy my empy eyes/your beauty blinds …those are NOT BAD right? I mean I tend to agree w Perry et all, I don’t think Courtney has a current peer lyrically, I just don’t. certainly no one in her genre even comes close. And people, now journalists, forget how acclaimed she has always been as a lyricist. Time magazine said she was the lyricist of her generation like in 1995 for godsake. It isn’t a new assertion! But the general hatred of her personally obscures the literally thousands of rave reviews from well respected critics she has always gotten

t-bone | 11/1/2006, 2:25 pm EST

well, since you asked, Courtney is a radical and a musician, but to put her in the same league as either or as an artist is laughable and certainly not fair to her, there is no one like Dylan, he is the greatest of all time, even John Lennon knew and conceded to that and was a student of Dylan, like countless others, and yes Courtney may be a heroine to some, the heroine on heroin?, if you do not know all of Dylan’s music, then study it and him and all the history before you pretend to know anything about him, or why Dylan is so special and great and always will be for eternity, he cannot be defined, and his work transcends time, it is eternal, his influence, impact and importance is incalcuable and cannot be overstated, he is the greatest artist and songwriter of all time, not just the 20th Century, I am a musician and know my song before I start singing it, and I know Bob Dylan, there will never, ever, be another Bob Dylan, we are fortunate that he is still here and that he came along…peace

bob dylan | 11/29/2006, 1:07 pm EST

who is courtney love?

Xmunvhcm | 7/13/2009, 5:21 pm EST

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