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Originally posted by johnsuxx
Weird how Taylor Momsen is like 10x more talented than Courtney Love |
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Critical reception
Live Through This was praised unanimously by music critics and rock periodicals. Rolling Stone said, "Love delivers punk not only as insinuating as Nirvana's but as corrosive as the Sex Pistols'. More significantly, Live Through This may be the most potent blast of female insurgency ever committed to tape",[52][55] while Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+ rating, saying, "What Live Through This makes perfectly clear, though, is that Love is a greater star. She has charisma and attitude to burn, and she knows it."[51] NME called the album "a personal but secretive thrash-pop opera of urban nihilism and passionate dumbthinks",[56] and Melody Maker called it "the high watermark of the genre that survived the crass label of `foxcore'..."[57]
Robert Christgau, who gave the band's debut three out of five stars, awarded Live Through This an A rating, noting its less caustic sound but praising Love's songwriting: "Punk aesthetic or no punk aesthetic, Courtney Love's songs wouldn't be compromised and might be deepened by steeper momentum and more articulate guitar noise. But they prevail anyway. Their focus is sexual exploitation, and not just by the media, evil straights, and male predators of every cultural orientation. She's also exploited by Courtney Love, and not only does she know it, she thinks about it."[50]
Musician Magazine said, "[Kurt] Cobain's much-discussed, little heard other half finally gets the chance to escape gossip-column purgatory and succeeds with flying colors... Courtney Love's foul, funny eloquence...cuts through all the ******** with a mighty flourish."[58] This sentiment was reassessed in a 2008 BBC review of the album, which stated, "In 1994 and the years that followed, tragedy and controversy seemed to overshadow everything Courtney Love touched. Thankfully, with every year that passes, it becomes easier to put the record's emotional baggage to one side and appraise it on the strength of its songs."[48]
Spin perhaps gave the album its greatest praise, awarding it a rare 10/10 rating and naming it the #1 album of the year on their "20 Best Albums of 1994" list, noting, "Love rode her band's gargantuan riffs through a shy loner's air-guitar fantasy: rock stardom as revenge upon the entire human race."[59]
The album's prolificness has been recognized in more recent years as well— it was ranked number 466 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and was included in TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Albums list, as well as the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[60] John Peel also listed it among his top twenty favorite albums of all time in 1997.[61]
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Taylor struggles to make anyone else out of her 11,000 angsty tumblr fans care about her music, let alone have her band's albums be certified cardboard. Courtney's music defined a generation. Don't come for her legacy using Taylor ******* Momsen, like, that's just embarrassing  even she would laugh at you for saying that.
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