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Courtney Love.

MEMBERS

Lois Maffeo,

Pat Maley

HOMETOWN

Olympia, Washington

ALSO

Lois's site

Pat's YoYo label

DESCRIPTION

Courtney Love is a pop band out of Olympia, Washington. After spending quite a few years in Olympia, Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley joined together, writing songs about motorcycle boyfriends, sunny days, Goofus and Gallant-type relationships, Bridget Fonda, and falling in love. Existing only for a short stint of two years from 1989 to 1991, they released three 7" and contributed to a number of regional compilations. Such as a live compilation documenting the K Records International Pop Underground Convention, held at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington in August of 1991.

RELATED ARTISTS

LOIS

Pat and Lois
Photo by [unknown]

RECORD LABELS ASSOCIATED WITH

K

BIOGRAPHY

Courtney Love is a pop band out of Olympia, Washington. After spending quite a few years in Olympia, Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley joined together, writing songs about motorcycle boyfriends, sunny days, Goofus and Gallant-type relationships, Bridget Fonda, and falling in love. Existing only for a short stint of two years from 1989 to 1991, they released three 7" and contributed to a number of regional compilations. Such as a live compilation documenting the K Records International Pop Underground Convention, held at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington in August of 1991. They never released a full length album before they disbanded.

- (K)

INTERVIEW INTRODUCTION

Courtney Love is Lois Maffeo, who sings and plays guitar, and Pat Maley on drums. Both have spent a lot of time in Olympia, WA, although Lois lives in Washington, D.C. now. Like Olympian peers Beat Happening and Some Velvet Sidewalk, there is no bass player, though that's about as far as the similarities go, since Courtney Love are as soft as the other two are noisy. Lois has a remarkably pure voice that seems to float over her rudimentary acoustic guitar chords and the simple drumming, and her songs are about things like motorcycle boyfriends, sunny days, Goofus and Gallant-type relationships, Bridget Fonda, and falling in love. The end result is sparse, yet dynamic enough to remind me of the Marine Girls with slightly less songwriting variety. Live, Courtney Love covers Beat Happening's "Don't Mix the Colors," and Lois is a chatty, relaxed front person despite her admitted shyness when it comes to singing live. It's really something to see.

- Mike Appelstein, Writer's Block No.7
[for the full interview, visit Mike's site.

DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES

Uncrushworthy
Highlights
Hey! Antoinette

COMPILATIONS

Teen-Beat Fifty
Kill Rock Stars
Throw (Yo Yo Studio Compilation)
One Last Kiss
International Pop Underground Convention

RELATED

Lois

SONGS

Baseball Bat
Disappearing Lessons
Don't Mix the Colors
Hey! Antoinette
Highlights
Motorcycle Boy
My Last Night
The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Shaniko
Spray
Stripmine
Sunny Day
Uncrushworthy