Matthew, post more songs, please!
― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 9 November 2003 05:58 (twenty years ago) link
"i see you defecatingdamn you look goodi'd like to take a shit toobut i dont have no anus"
― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Windi, Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
They'd better be putting on some pretty damn good songs in place to make excising those songs, particularly Doctor which is just utterly fabulous, worthwhile at all.
― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 23 November 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 8 December 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
NYC fans should definitely get tickets for their January 10th show at the Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are on sale now.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
LauraComfortably Numb (no idea what version, though)Take Your Mama OutMaryTits On The Radio
― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
1. Laura2. Take Your Mama Out3. Comfortably Numb4. Mary5. Lovers In The Backseat6. Tits On The Radio7. Filthy & Gorgeous8. Music Is The Victim9. Better Luck Next Time10.It Can't Come Quickly Enough11.Return To Oz
I have Lovers In The Backseat up on enthusiastic right now. It's good.
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
I think they've sort of ruined Music Is The Victim... a bit. They took out the talkie bit in the middle (you know, I'm gonna do the pony.. DAH! DAH! etc) clearly just to annoy me for some reason. On the plus side, the vocals are clearer and bolder, and the groove is tauter and tighter.
Filthy & Gorgeous has been trimmed down, including, again the talkie bit. But I don't mind so much, as the mega camp disco chorus is still gloriously intact (and the backing vocals going "filthy!" and "gorgeous" are still there, thankfully) and the original meandered a bit too much anyway.
It Can't Come Quickly Enough is about a minute longer than the version from the Party Monster soundtrack.
Some very good news is that Return To Oz has been improved immeasurably - much fuller, sharper and clearer, particularly at the end, where it gets all grand. I thought it was one of the weakest songs of the demo album, but its potential is fully realised on the proper version - the benefits of a proper mix, clearly.
Overall it is a bit more guitar-y than you'd have expected, but it's still very good stuff, and I'll be buying it when it comes out, definitely.
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:55 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 December 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link
"i surprise myself by liking it so much. "
Indeed!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
UK ILM folks: go see this band when they tour your country over the next six weeks.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
The dude is BUFF.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
This band are so good.
But I really loved the tunes (Make way for the man, Backwoods, Monkey Baby) which are like rocky diva-house. Its such an unexpected combo...
And it seems like that's being lost, huh.
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
Btw, Matthew, I think they have to get massive respect purely for being a band that you, I and Joe all like unequivocally, which is pretty rare.
Also, I'm enormously jealous of you going to that gig, cos the likelihood of them ever coming to Singapore is remote, to say the least...
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
The Scissor Sisters in Singapore! Ha!
Flyboy is right, by the way. And wait, don't we all like LCD Soundsystem?
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
Too arch, too tryhard (some of the time, anyhow).
I positively loathe 'losing my edge' now.
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
oh, and the manager of the bowery ballroom is officially A DICK!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
fuck, they made junior fucking senior seem like joy division.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
hey, we had drinking to do. seriously, though... i was disappointed. i'm not big on comfortably numb, but i do like the other stuff i've heard. live they were just a big dud for me - very flat. i realize that they're not the deepest act going, but there wasn't the sparkle there to make it fun.
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
sorry i didn't see you there matthew. or maybe just as well as i'd probably just have rained on yr parade.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
oh i am gonna LOVE seeing this band onstage.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, it's too bad I didn't see you, Stirmonster. It's true, though, I was having a pretty good time and I wouldn't have really wanted to hear anything negative about the show at the time.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Saturday, 24 January 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
thanx !
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I agree with Tim's analysis of the Scissor Sisters as being very chameleonic, it seems that a lot of people are acsribing sets of values to them which are very much applicable to some of their songs, but not to most of their songs.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
They're completely different in every way, except for a few shared lyrics (the "in the sweat set met gettin' freaky with the hot tub jets..." section). The B-side version is called "Backwoods Part II". The demo version is infinitely better.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
is 'Mary' really the next single? i like Shears voice on that.
― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a bloody shame some of those old demos are gathering dust when something as dull as "Borrowed Time" gets released as a B-side. (Or is it just me who doesn't like that one?)
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Caitlyn Jones, Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Don Bluth did a freaking video of theirs!
Probably my favorite song of theirs, too.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Saturday, 7 February 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
>8 SIZZCORE 4 LIFE 8<
scissor sisters really need to cover tim curry's "i do the rock"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLNCJdXmX0
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Night Work is actually kind of an amazing album.
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep. Some discussion here...scissor sisters are back! back!! back!!!
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I like most everything on the album except "Comfortably Numb."
A. I don't like Floyd's original all that much.B. I hate Bee Gees impersonations.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, November 6, 2003 9:37 PM (10 years ago)
I was being an a-hole that day. Floyd's original is a great song and I rather like Bee Gees impersonations. Pretty sure these were my feelings at the time, too, so my early days on ILM were full of fake contrarianism.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 June 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
s & d :: desert sessions is a thread I keep reviving and receiving very little interest, so I'm reaching out to its members' home threads.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Do we like the Scissor Sisters? A little, but certainly loving the new Jake Shears album especially the house stylings of ‘Doses’.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 4 June 2023 14:31 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, I was really impressed with this. I like the Italo disco influences on the second half. It goes quite dark in places.
― kitchen person, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:20 (nine months ago) link
And suddenly out of nowhere, Jake guesting on TR/ST's just-released cover of "Being Boring."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFA9huryUek
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 January 2024 05:09 (two months ago) link
<3
― nxd, Friday, 26 January 2024 07:44 (two months ago) link