Do we like the Scissor Sisters?

1. Laura
2. Take Your Mama Out
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Mary
5. Lovers In The Backseat
6. Tits On The Radio
7. Filthy & Gorgeous
8. Music Is The Victim
9. Better Luck Next Time
10.It Can't Come Quickly Enough
11.Return To Oz

I have Lovers In The Backseat up on enthusiastic right now. It's good.

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.

"i surprise myself by liking it so much. "

Indeed!

UK ILM folks: go see this band when they tour your country over the next six weeks.

The dude is BUFF.

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.

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...

The Scissor Sisters in Singapore! Ha!

Flyboy is right, by the way. And wait, don't we all like LCD Soundsystem?

Too arch, too tryhard (some of the time, anyhow).

I positively loathe 'losing my edge' now.

oh, and the manager of the bowery ballroom is officially A DICK!

fuck, they made junior fucking senior seem like joy division.

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.

sorry i didn't see you there matthew. or maybe just as well as i'd probably just have rained on yr parade.

oh i am gonna LOVE seeing this band onstage.

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.

thanx !

They're good - some spectacularly so, but some of the songs sound unfinished - Return To Oz is the best case of this, it's the weakest song on the demo album but one of the strongest on the finished album. Of course, haven't heard the tracks that are on the final album that weren't on the promo.

Matthew, thanks for the recommendation. I've just come back from seeing them live, and they were fantastic. Some of the tracks didn't work so well on the album I though (though everyone raved about them), like Music is the Victim and Tits on the Radio, but live it was ace. And Filthy/Gorgeous live (with the spoken bit) was just brilliant.. it's probably my favourite track off the album as well.

Out of curiosity, Jellybean - did they perform "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" or "Return To Oz" when you saw them?

I love Tits On The Radio, but it is miles better live yeah, they did it with a synth bassline instead of a guitar and it sounded immense.

Comfortably Numb sounded an awful lot beefier live than on record too. But generally it was all quite smashing, ignoring the shortness of the set and the Worst Support Band Ever (Syntax - A Tribute To The Solo Work Of Dave Gahan)

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?)

Don Bluth did a freaking video of theirs!

Probably my favorite song of theirs, too.

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scissor sisters really need to cover tim curry's "i do the rock"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLNCJdXmX0

Night Work is actually kind of an amazing album.

Yep. Some discussion here...
scissor sisters are back! back!! back!!!

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.

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.

Do we like the Scissor Sisters? A little, but certainly loving the new Jake Shears album especially the house stylings of ‘Doses’.

Yeah, I was really impressed with this. I like the Italo disco influences on the second half. It goes quite dark in places.

And suddenly out of nowhere, Jake guesting on TR/ST's just-released cover of "Being Boring."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFA9huryUek

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