Do we like the Scissor Sisters?

"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)

Syntax were crap. I got so annoyed with them, I didn't understand why everyone around me was getting really into their set and raving it up.

The Scissor Sisters played the album MINUS It Can't Come Quickly Enough, Mary & Return To Oz, i.e. all the slow stuff. This was my one disappointment with what was otherwise a typically fantastic set (3rd time I've seen them). They also played The Skins, Rock My Spot (Crevice Canyon), and two new unrecorded songs which I think Matthew mentioned on his Fluxblog review: a fabulous throbbing campy disco stormer probably called Magnifique (a bit Lene Lovich in places, and a dead cert future hit), and a reggae-tinged tune (a bit Ace Of Base in places, if truth be told, but nice enough).

Ropey sound at the start was sorted out after the second song, and after an interlude during which Ana Matronic improvised a "performance art" piece based around her favourite trashy US soap, while the band improvised a suitably filmic soundtrack. They got off on the Charlotte being such a sleazy, sweaty, dark hole of a joint, ("We love playing places like this!") comparing it to CBGB's.

Highlights were the best version I've heard them do of C.Numb, and the aforementioned Magnifique. Main set ended with Filthy/Gorgeous, Jake started the encore with an impromptu accapella of a Sinatra song, beautifully sung but I forget which song, then the band encored with Music Is The Victim.

Quite a few grizzly old hippies knocking around the venue, who had presumably come along on account of Comfortably Numb (I spotted plentiful sage head-nodding when this was played). Why, one of them even hugged me for wearing a Camembert Electrique T-shirt...

What I like about the Scissor Sisters on stage: their immense enjoyment in performing, and the balance between their larger-than-life personas and an utterly down-to-earth, unassuming quality. Still my favourite band, then.

I'm wondering right now if they never play "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" and "Return To Oz" - the latter seems like a pretty obvious live tune to me. If I saw them do "...Quickly Enough," I'd probably get tears of joy! I've come to really love that song.

Also, does anyone know if they are doing any radio sessions or having any of their shows broadcast on the radio while they are in Europe?

Don Bluth did a freaking video of theirs!

Probably my favorite song of theirs, too.

>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

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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