scissor sisters are back! back!! back!!!

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back in fact with a new single called I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCIN' on september 4th so this is a bit early, but POP JUSTICE has this about their scala gig earlier this week:

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we can tell you the following: after years of seeing bands debuting new material to enthusiastic crowds who desperately want to get into the new tunes but can't due to not really knowing what's going on, we have never ever ever seen an audience react to a brand new song like last night's crowd reacted to the Scissors' comeback single 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'. The whole place literally exploded. Astonishing, really.

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they've taken their time about it haven't they? LAURA was first out october 2003!

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

NO! NO! NO!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

the new songs I heard are the most ridiculously catchy things I've heard in years

― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

where did u hear them simon? and which ones?

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

It took me a minute to figure out you weren't talking about The Scissor Girls.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

The whole place literally exploded.

So, er, the "comeback" was short-lived? RIP, sisters.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to say! The misuse of "literally" is a major pet peeve.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

They've been playing new stuff at gigs for about a year now, not that I've been able to go to any of them. But the new songs sound really good, especially the one with the banjo. Apparently they're writing new stuff all the time, so it's less a procrastination thing and more a quality-control thing, which I can readily endorse.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Um, the new songs which I have heard MP3s of, that is. I'm not being psychic.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

They played two or three new songs at Coachella - all of them were pretty good, but "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" was a particular highlight (it's very much a "proper band" interpretation of Erasure's "Victim Of Love" and was stuck most obdurately in my head for weeks and weeks afterward). I'm also looking forward to "Kiss You Off" surfacing - basically they went and did a Richard X schaeffel-pop song and it is AWESOME. Can't wait for the album.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.erolalkan.co.uk/chart.html

Oh fuck me running, there's (going to be) an Erol Alkon mix of "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"? THAT can't surface quick enough for me, although I hope he breaks with tradition and doesn't do away with the vocals entirely.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

This is exciting!

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 13 July 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

so who else has heard the single then?

'elo meets bee gees' is the phrase i've heard bandied about. it is VERY pop and as sure-fire a number 1 hit as you could imagine.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is so great! How can you not love a dance song called "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

they were sweaty and insane in a great way at the siren festival

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

They literally tore the roof off the joint!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the single is great. I'd like to hear the Nolans singing it.

I'm seeing them at Bestival (Scissor Sisters, not the Nolans) in September. Can't wait.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'm apprehensive about the Erol remix...but I imagine Stuart Price will be getting his hands on it too? he's remixed every single of theirs to date, and is pretty good friends w/the band.

― D Chan (jumpylooy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Revive!

Why the FUCK is nobody talking about their new album?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't like this album then you're fucking gay.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

cos the single's shit and the album's disappointing and everyone with taste is too busy listening to beyoncé.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Lex OTM for once! There's ONE good song on the album. One!

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

No one with taste likes anything Beyonce has ever released. As for Scissor Sisters, the first album was more interesting when it came to arrangements than to actual songs.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

the album, i will concede, might be a grower. i have only listened to it twice. but right now: disappointing.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

I've already banged on about this album at excruciating length elsewhere - but it gets better with each passing day. It also works well when played in reverse order (take a bow, iTunes "Recently Added"), because you get the lyrically happier songs first.

Edward, what's the ONE! good song?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

"Kiss You Off", which is probably in their top three songs.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. It's OK-ish, but not one of my favourites. The Goldfrapp-lite doesn't really do it for me, Ana's vocals lack presence, and the lyrics tread a well-worn theme (at least they do if you've seen as many drag shows as I have).

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

It's really more noveau-Debbie Harry than Goldfrapp, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

FEAR MY SPELLING.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've listened to it three times now, and it hasn't grown. Don't think I'll bother anymore. [unticks all]

― davidsim (davidsim), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

The one I like is the piano-mid-tempo-y one near the end, which helpfully I've forgotten the name of.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

i worked out the other day, too, that scissor sisters : pop :: beck : indie. ie, everyone goes on and on and bloody on about how WEIRD and WACKY they are, but they really make pretty bog-standard chuggachugga stuff. (well, SS tend to make GOOD middle-of-road pop, and beck makes terrible middle-of-road indie, but the point remains)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Transistor" is the only track on the album I'd voluntarily play again.

Can't stand Shears' voice - that awful sub-Robbie nasolabial gruff whine.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

i think your theory there is too simplistic, lex. the SS ARE relatively weird and wacky for their current demogaphic (i.e MY MUM).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

(lol SS=Nazis hilarity)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

i think the single is better than the singles off the last elpee (not inc 'comfortably numb') but that's not saying anything much.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

i think your theory there is too simplistic, lex. the SS ARE relatively weird and wacky for their current demogaphic (i.e MY MUM).

they're not though! not very many other current popstars are doing what they do but that's not the same thing - they're following a v traditional path in british pop, in both sound and image, one very very very well trodden by all their obvious influences and no doubt many imitators at the time. i don't think it's all that weird and wacky to make your schtick the same as elton john's or the bee gees' given how successful they were! the phrase which keeps springing to mind is "establishment pop".

scissor sisters' crowning glory is still 'return to oz'. i wish jake shears would sing properly more.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's fucking DREADFUL. the worst second album by a major pop act i can ever remember. all gloss, shine, fluff and froth and nowt underneath. i'm sorry i even started a thread about it.

also i've got one word to sat to paul lester's 4 star review in UNCUT and it's this: "BOLLOCKS".

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

their image is different to Elton's or Bee Gees tho. and note i say 'relatively'. xpost

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

right, i am really confused that on the one hand the broadsheets are giving it rave reviews (or at least rave star ratings) and they are media and public darlings du jour; and on the other lots of people are saying that it's terrible. it falls squarely between these for me: disappointing, not as good as debut, but not so bad that i'm refusing to give it another chance.

i don't really know what elton and BGs image was i was not born then. but, you know, flamboyant queeny chatshow-friendly gayness.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Elton's image was flamboyant queeny chatshow-friendly gayness.

The Bee Gees' image was hairy-chested medallions and they'll sue you if you call them queeny.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Elton John has made, by my count, three decent singles in The Lex's lifetime.

I actually, gasp, agreeing with Lex again shocker, also rate "Return To Oz" as the best thing they've done, though "Laura" and "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" likewise tower a long way above anything off the new one, which is just... well.. you know the line between the "demo" album and the debut? They ironed out some of the disco wackiness in favour of more 70s pastiche, but the songs were still good. They've gone too far down that road now, I think. I'll listen a few more times, but the songs just ain't doing it for me.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(A prize to anyone who guesses which 3 Elton singles I mean. No, don't guess, really, not on this thread. Email.)

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

In Lex's lifetime? I don't recall any decent Elton singles since 1994...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello has won. Close the internet.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Bee Gees' image was hairy-chested medallions and they'll sue you if you call them queeny.

haha well they bloody SOUND queeny.

ed o'd analysis of scissor disco and scissor 70s pastiche is spot on.

the only elton john songs i like are 'sacrifice' and 'tiny dancer', and when i say i like them, i mean i like the covers by sinéad o'connor and tori amos respectively.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Elton has always looked about 50, that's what i find odd.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

e.g. in video for original "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" he looks exactly like Norris Out Of Corrie.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Every time one of you rotters is beastly about the Scissor Sisters, a little part of me dies inside. Embrace the magic!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

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That's Jamie King in the video, right? I know she's never been shy about getting nekkid, but she's got one of those faces that kind of looks like a bunch of other people's faces.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

>8 sizzcore 4 lyfe 8<

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 13 December 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

This album is boring sex though.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 December 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

Cool, it's on youtube now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4cec5cR78

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 07:40 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

i recently spent too much money for tickets to see them open for lady gaga.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Friday, 7 January 2011 07:02 (fifteen years ago)

btw, i agree wholeheartedly about "fire with fire,"
but i just like to think of it as a gay springsteen disco time, and that makes my heart thump.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Friday, 7 January 2011 07:03 (fifteen years ago)

I don't even care what "Fire With Fire" is supposed to be about - it has been a personal anthem for me over the past few months, with different sections accruing different meanings as personal circumstances evolve. It has made me smile and cry like no other song in recent memory.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 7 January 2011 10:59 (fifteen years ago)

Still think "Sex and Violence" is the best tune.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

Oddly, "Sex and Violence" is the only tune from Night Work that's not on their current set list.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:45 (fifteen years ago)

"Skin Tight" is most certainly my favorite, but as mike said, a lot of this is about personal circumstances. :/

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 06:48 (fifteen years ago)

tbh, i can't fathom how anyone could ever call "Fire With Fire" the weakest track. "Skin This Cat" is the weakest link. so fucking bad. everything else about this album i totally adore.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 06:51 (fifteen years ago)

also alfred, "Sex & Violence" is...like...yeah. it isn't my favorite, but it is fucking amazing. had sex to it the other night, as a matter of fact.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 06:53 (fifteen years ago)

okay, i could've just said this in one post, but "Invisible Light" is actually what i'm look forward to most in their live show.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:00 (fifteen years ago)

"Invisible Light" was the highlight when I saw them, most definitely.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

god. i feel like such a fag. i love this album so much.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 06:29 (fifteen years ago)

Jake Shears on WNYC in a few minutes, talking about gay pop music and the zeitgeist, etc. http://www.wnyc.com

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

"Nightlife" is totally my jam from this lately. It reminds of Irene Cara + "Oh no! It's Devo"

― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

saw them with Gaga last month, seeing them again this Friday. VERY EXCITED.

― homosexual fecal matter sodomy will be the law (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

also, i've been waking up with "Tits on the Radio" in my head.

― homosexual fecal matter sodomy will be the law (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

New track/video "Shady Love" with Azealia Banks: http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/scissor-sisters-and-azealia-banks-as-krystal-pepsy-shady-love

Jake Shears, comical rapper

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

First impressions are that this is their Rudebox. I quite like it but it's hardly the amazing comeback Invisible Light was.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 2 January 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

lol I thought Rudebox was amazing (the song, at least...the album less so).

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 January 2012 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah I actually really liked Rudebox, it was the first single since No Regrets I enjoyed of his. The album was mixed but I played it a lot for while. The thought of these guys doing an album like that would be quite exciting. I still play the last album quite a bit.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 2 January 2012 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

This is an execrable song.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

"she gon vote for obama / she likes to listen to madonna"

in 2012, seriously?

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

maybe they mean "she likes to cling on to fallen heroes who will let her down"

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

dreadful lyric even if it was 2008 or 2005 or whenever obama and madonna were last doing good things

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

"she gon vote for obama / she likes to listen to madonna"

in 2012, seriously?

He's breaking up with her, right?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

So since they pretty much scrapped Shady Love here is the real first single from the new album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiNc1JvjyQ

I like the bassline a lot and the production is great but it kind of sounds like every other song on the radio right now. Wish it had more of their personality on it.

― Kitchen Person, Friday, 6 April 2012 11:48 (thirteen years ago)

Like the prettiness of the melody, don't like the generically rave-y synths.

Still, better than Shady Love.

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Friday, 6 April 2012 14:36 (thirteen years ago)

the generically rave-y synths.

Presumably Calvin Harris' inimitable personal touch.

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:15 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcWrFx7pe0

It's not a carbon copy, but it's close enough that there should be something in the liner notes that says "inspired by Toto".

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:36 (thirteen years ago)

That new Scissors Sisters single is so boring -_-

― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:14 (thirteen years ago)

"Invisible Light" apparently their last attempt at goodness.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

I like p much all the songs on Night Work; not gonna write off their potential or anything.

― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:19 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

This is magnificent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw60b-wk9MA

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

That ad is great, sadly the album is not. Ta Dah was full of filler but had a few amazing moments but this is their first really poor album. Nothing stands out and some of is actually quite annoying. This is a real shame as Night Work was such a good album.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 28 May 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

I was wondering the other day if they are damned to only have every other album kick ass.

― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:51 (thirteen years ago)

It's a definite pattern at this point.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 May 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

It seems that way. The first and third albums are just about solid all the way through and feel like actual albums. The second and third sound like they've just thrown a bunch of songs together not knowing what the public actually want from them. There is no character on the new album and they just sound like they're desperate for a hit.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 28 May 2012 21:09 (thirteen years ago)

So, here's to 2015's fifth album.

― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 28 May 2012 23:42 (thirteen years ago)

Wait...ppl don't like Ta-Dah!?

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:57 (thirteen years ago)

Ta-Dah had some great moments especially Paul McCartney, Might Tell You Tonight and The Other Side but most of it was pretty rubbish. Intermission was annoying, She's My Man was basically I'm Still Standing, Land of a Thousand Words was a forgettabe song and a terrible choice for a second single and Eveybody Wants The Same Thing remains the worst thing they've done. I loved I Don't Feel Like Dancing until it got totally overplayed.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:35 (thirteen years ago)

I wish I existed in whatever world it is where I Don't Feel Like Dancing was overplayed.

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Night Work has really aged well. (even though it's only been two years)

― skip, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:45 (thirteen years ago)

they are a strange live band. The best recorded tracks invariably sound terrible (the two big singles and Invisible Light) and some total non-entities on record rock out.

― skip, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:46 (thirteen years ago)

The awfulness of the new record has made me want to re-evalute Night Work in a more positive light, at the very least.

― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 6 July 2012 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Jake Shears sings "A Real Hero" (aka that song from "Drive") for Anderson Cooper at the GLADD awards

http://youtu.be/2jmTYw3bXvg

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 16:28 (twelve years ago)

argh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jmTYw3bXvg

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 16:28 (twelve years ago)

seven years pass...

I do not remember any substantive discussion about Night works 10 years ago beyond "this exists" and "ah, this band is over" but man, I learned that it's now considered their best, and I really like this record. There is no doubt that Shears was going for Skatt Brothers "walk the Night" with "harder you get."

― veronica moser, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:39 (five years ago)

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