Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters [PA]

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters [PA]

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Brief Description

Item#: 3092319
    Track Listing:
    • Laura
    • It Can`t Come Quickly Enough
    • Return To Oz
    • Take Your Mama
    • Comfortably Numb
    • Mary
    • Lovers In The Backseat
    • T*ts On The Radio
    • Filthy...
UPC: 602498206577
 
 
Artist:
Scissor Sisters
See Also:
Jackson, Michael Maroon 5
Description:
Scissor Sisters: Jake Shears, Ana Matronic (vocals); Del Marquis (guitar); Babydaddy (bass instrument); Paddy Boom.
Personnel: Joan Wasser (violin); Crispin Cioe (saxophone); Paul Leschen (piano, organ, keyboards); Paddy Boom (drums).
Audio Mixers: Scissor Sisters; Neil Harris.
Recording information: 5D Studios, Brooklyn, NY; The Shed, New York, NY.
Photographer: Alan Clarke.
SCISSOR SISTERS is a case study in albums that are more than the sum of their parts. On paper, the group`s combination of 1970s glam, disco, and pop brings to mind Elton John, Supertramp, and a really sweaty night at the disco with a particularly deft DJ on the turntables. In practice, however, the band uses their influences not so much to create a new style as to render up something eerily familiar that isn`t quite identifiable. And while the sense of the familiar makes them immediately appealing, it is the unidentified other that keeps you listening.
A trio of dance-floor stompers opens the album, all thunderous bass lines, falsetto vocals, and wah-wah guitar straight out of SUPERFLY, but that`s only the beginning. "T*ts on the Radio," is a snarling, swaggering attack on conservatism, recorded before the Janet Jackson/Superbowl debacle, but more relevant since that time. "Better Luck" highlights a gloriously thumping honky-tonk beat. And the closing tracks, both of which use sweeping ambient electronics, end the album on that majestic crash everyone experiences once they leave the heightened reality of a nightclub and return to the drab city streets.
Track Listing:
  • DISC 1
    1. Laura
    2. Take Your Mama
    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
    10. It Can`t Come Quickly Enough
    11. Return to Oz
  • Album Information

    Release Date:
    07/27/2004
    Type:
    Performer
    Genre:
    R&B
    Subgenre:
    Dance
    Label:
    Universal Distribution
    Producer:
    Scissor Sisters; Scissor Sisters
    Catalog Number:
    000277202
    Original Release Year:
    2004
    # of Discs:
    1
    Studio/Live:
    Studio
    Mono/Stereo:
    Stereo

    Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

     

    Customer Reviews

    Overall Rating: 4

    Rating

    great1st cd

    cmm62 from carteret nj, Dec 28, 2007

    great cd-almost as good as their 2nd-well worth the money

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    Rating

    Surprise! It's really good.

    adfalcon from Southern New Jersey, Sep 20, 2006

    • Suitability for all ages:1 out of 5
    • Entertainment Value:3 out of 5
    • Value:4 out of 5

    Take Abba, Gary Numan and Erasure and kinda shove them all into one group. Voilą, you get Scissor Sisters. Happy, jaunty, electronic and dark all at the same time. The sound is new, fresh and really different, albeit tongue-in-cheek some of the time. Recommended.

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