Do we like the Scissor Sisters?

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No.

― John Cei Douglas (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

the answer is now no. still like comfortably numb tho

― minna (minna), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

Andrew WK vs Scissor Sisters

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

Shakey my point was that people use this concept of memorabilty as a yardstick of quality (or a stick to beat the music they dislike) - but memorability is not really an inherent quality to certain types of music, and nor does it equate to the music being good. The transience or otherwise of groups such as Scissor Sisters and Andrew WK is not an indication of their quality so much as the contexts within which their work is received - tellingly both have received support from "sophisticated" music fans, who (if I were to conjecture) value the *idea* of ephemeral transience and thus actively approach such artists with the pre-established intention of forgetting them soon enough.

The pop consumer doesn't really do this! Anastacia is still having bit hits!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to see them on monday!

(tend to skip comfortably numb tho)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

and i think laura is a terrific pop song!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

i'm controversial

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

My top pics: "Take Your Mama Out", "Lovers In The Backseat", "Music Is The Victim", "It Can't Come Quickly Enough"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

take your mama out really is very good, and an excellent song to have on in the background at a party

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Music is the Victim" is the song which convinced me there's definitely something there, I thank Ally for turning me onto it. I have to say I think they're best listened to one song at a time, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah I agree with that. It's one of those albums where each time you listen to it you like a different song, but for a while the necessary corollary is that you dislike the song you liked the previous time. It's hard to be in the mood for so many varied homages in one sitting.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

Treat it as a mix tape and there could be something. As it is, interleaving the songs with other 'transitional' songs from other bands could result in something pretty damned cool.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

I agree again! That comment before about "Take Your Mama Out" working particularly well as background music at parties actually applies to the whole album, and I'd hazard that this is partly because this music works best when you don't think to heavily about what kind of band Scissor Sisters are ultimately, at core, in the last instance etc. etc. They are a band with no center. The album may as well be a compilation of random good songs. It's when you try to compute the album as a unified piece of art that all the transitions and shifts and dress-ups become exhausting and a bit numbing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

Rockism that defeats itself! If you will.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago) link

it's a trojan horse aimed at rockism's fortified city!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago) link

Steely Dan can be alright, but they could never be half as great as a POP band as the Scissor Sisters. Songs like "Laura" and "Better Luck" stomp all over them in this respect.

*Head explodes*

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

scottontharox, since you've driven Shakey to drink, which SS song sounds like Steely Dan to you? Cause I'm hearing Elton John (and thus Wham/George Michael), I'm hearing the Bee Gees, I'm hearing Bowie, but after that you've lost me.

"Electrobix", duh. Just kidding. Okay, seriously:

1. "Mary"
2. "Take Your Mama Out" (= My Old School, 2004)
3. "Better Luck Next Time" (at 1:03)
4. "Return To Oz" (although this sounds a bit like ELO as well)

Derrrr. Do any of you even own Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic? Go back and listen to "Kid Charlemagne", "Peg", or "F.M." again, you'll figure it out. No static at alllllll...

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

Not to mention that scissors are made out of steel.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

All I'm hearing in those songs is Robbie Williams (must be the voice)

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago) link

Actually "Take Your Mama Out" sounds more like George Michael's "Faith". Or is it "I Want Your Sex"?

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

show was cancelled :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

Within the context of Merritt's comment that the Magnetic Fields make the musical equivalent of a variety show, Scissor Sisters are the dance version of same. They're my favorite band since Turbonegro, which ignores the fact that they are just Turbonegro in go-go boots. I hope they release totally different singles in the US, though. I've played "Tits on the Radio" at college dance-punk parties and it gets a "House of Jealous Lovers"-like response. And the demo version of "Filthy/Gorgeous" is quite simply the best song since "Adolescent Sex" (or do I mean "I Got Erection"?) Their AM radio jive is great too, it makes me want to dance to Creedence.

― Otis Wheeler (Otis Wheeler), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

So I suppose I'm the only one who likes their electro-disco tracks more than their elton john rocki-ish moments?

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

Noooo... Electrobix is still where it's at.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:57 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I think they're on early at Spaceland tonight (free). I might try to check it out...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

They are. And it is.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

They go on at 10 tonight, actually.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Spaceland? Free?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Mondays always free, always a residency (The Like, this month). Pretty much.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Free for everyone except @d@ml.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

That reminds me, my air tax bill is due.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

This month is Low Flying Owls, Giant Drag. (actually)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha so it isn't the Like, for once. Nice.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I was a big fan of the Dance Disaster Movement month. I think it was October.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The only people I hear who like Low Flying Owls are the ones who've booked them. If I go tonight I won't need to stick around. Giant Drag gurl is ok though it was a while ago I saw her at Silverlake Lounge (on a Monday night residency jag, I think)

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Turbonegro in go-go boots"?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

which?

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone go last night? I had a good time. I felt bad for the bands who had to actually follow them. They even did encores..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't go, but I did like The Like last month...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

The only people I hear who like Low Flying Owls are the ones who've booked them.

HA. How funny. I was going to make a similar comment but somehow resisted, shockingly. They opened up for Clinic a few weeks ago. Low Flying indeed.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh god, so is this band the Polar Goldie Cats of this decade, then?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Scissor Sisters last night were pretty silly, if you ask me but I guess that's what they're about. The fag hag made me blush; her "vogue-ing" comments and such were rather sad. The music wasn't much beyond fun, funky pop but the stuff I've heard on the album's a bit better.

Yeah I missed Low Flying before Clinic went on but friends who caught them were not impressed (the ones who don't book bands, anyway).

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

MONKEY BABY RULES MY WORLD

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd definitely hang out with Shears. And the rest.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Scissor Sisters album is actually quite good. I like it a little.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Finally got the album (or files thereof). If it lives up to the singles (that weren't the Floyd cover), then all is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

scissor sisters rool! i don't actually own a copy of the album, but i hear it so much in other people's houses that i don't really need one. definitely one of my favourite things from this year.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 30 August 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

So I'm finally hearing the album and it's quite the treat! Amusing sleaze, like a Soft Cell with guitars and no angst (or not as much).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

bored me senseless but I might give it another try

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Alternately, like U.S.E., they work a certain Andrew WK approach in a way that I actually like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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