Do we like the Scissor Sisters?

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Junior Senior? Christ.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, if ever there was an act that deserved gigantic piles of vitriol and scorn, it's Junior Senior.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

knock yourself out, nu-Alex.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I've only heard two songs by them but they basically seem to have all of the irritating, horrifying traits that Kate was attributing to The Scissor Sisters; I've never understood why anyone would like them and sort of assumed you had to be on coke to understand.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

that's because you've only heard two songs you big silly

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Granted. They were the singles that everyone was going gaga over, though, and usually if someone cannot win me over with the singles they can't win me over with the album tracks (although they might win me over with the remixes).

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan otm about Junior Senior. They were bloody annoying.

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

xpost: I thought the b-side version of Backwoods was the same as the one on the demo?

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

i don't think Dan would like Junior Senior truth be told. i find a lot of their tracks have a great 'harking back to 50s/60s in a good way' vibe ala The Avalanches i guess). It's true also that not all Scissor Sisters tracks have the same values/influences but some are more common, even dominant, than others (Reg bleedin Dwight all over the shop, bit of Chicago/Italo disco).

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

hate Junior Senior.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I assumed it was the demo 'Backwoods' one I had. It's 3:43 in length, and has that "I like playin' cards but you mothafuckas best not be playin' poker with my asshole!" sample in the middle. The one on the UK B-side is 4:25. But I thought they were both called 'Backwoods Part ii' - is that wrong? Other people on the web seem to refer to the demo one by that name too.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

(as you all know!)

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mary" is the next single? Jesus, their choice of singles is abysmal... apart from "Laura", I haven't really cared for any of them even though I like the album a lot.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I love "Mary".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The big Junior Senior song doesn't sound like ANYTHING else on the rest of the album, it even has a different singer!! Of course Ronan probably likes the rest of the album even less because none of the rest of it sounds like disco.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Much as I love "Mary", I agree that there have been some weird singles choices. After "Comfortably Numb", I'd have gone for "Music Is The Victim" and "Filthy/Gorgeous", both of which fairly SCREAM "hit single".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

If they're going to release a slow one, "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" would have seemed obvious, anyway. Anyway, slow ones as singles don't work. "Music Is The Victim" - a new radio edit with Ana's talkie bit reinstated - should have been IT.

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

two months pass...

Apparently they are coming to Australia to headline the good vibrations festival. Does anybody know if they are appearing anywhere else in Australia?

― Caitlyn Jones, Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone got the new remix album .. any good or nasty cash-in ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Hey, any news on when the new album comes out? I've been whistling "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" almost constantly since Coachella.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

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<

― i'm shy (Abbott), Saturday, 7 February 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

four months pass...

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

three years pass...

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

five years pass...

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

three years pass...

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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link

seven months pass...

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

― nxd, Friday, 26 January 2024 07:44 (two months ago) link

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