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Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters Audio CD

A fair review of the Scissor Sisters "Scissor Sisters" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Scissor Sisters reviews here, or go back to the Scissor Sisters tabs.

Scissor Sisters Band: Scissor Sisters
Title: Scissor Sisters
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Release Date: 2004-05-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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

cut the dramatcs, won't you?
The bunch are urban, picturesque and mixed, the arrangements between establishment pop and white r'n'b (someone sniffed disco?) - but from what I saw live I gather they can't "read" and communicate onstage. Are we concerned with esthetical value and practical applicability of this (a household, a partytime, a relaxer, an ad-hoc music) - or just the delivery? I accept this album as a social / age-group marker, a nod to staying tuned and keeping up with society. Next, they carry no message. They're no aged, retro and grotesque Sweet who still stir audiences with sheer teenybop energy. I can only wish this band adapted "Blockbaster" next time around to justify the stars.


Simply amazing album
It was the best album I've bought in a long time. I first saw this group on the Brit Awards this year and immediately went out and bought the album. A great mix of different styles all with a tongue in cheek attitude which is a pleasant surprise. This is a definite must-buy album for anyone that loves 70s and 80s pop music.


Awesome
This is one of the best discs I have purchased in a long, long time. If you are a fan of the 70s and 80s, run don't walk to purchase this disc. It plays constantly on my CD player. Buy it, you won't be disppointed. And at the same time buy the DVD concert. It's a blast.


Best Album Ever
Seriously though, if I was being sent to the moon tomorrow and NASA was only letting me take 5 cds, this would have to be one of them and I've only just heard of these guys today. This is my new favorite album and possibly the only album I am ever going to listen to again (ever). (Where have I been I do not know. ) All kidding aside, these guys are new but they have huge potential, considering that almost all of the songs are good versus your usual 1 or 2 good and 8 or 9 filler and if you don't buy it immediately it's your loss.


This is not for Pink Floyd fans
In my opinion the original version is fine - self indulgent progressive rock is another description. Look - they have a cover of Comfortably Numb which apparently is some sacrosanct Pink Floyd track. The Scissor Sisters have managed to turn this into one of the most pumping disco tunes I've heard in a VERY long time. So - if you like Pink Floyd and don't like disco then you need to be elsewhere. If you like big disco beats this is for you.

The rest of the album is fabulous as well - for some reason the Elton John fans don't seem to be up in arms about the nods towards Reg's music, nor do I see people berating the sisters for not quite sounding like Frankie/Lipps Sync/Patrice Rushen/Brothers Gibb.

Music is not sacrosanct - if it were not continually being reinterpreted/reworked/screwed up and turned on its head the world would be a much poorer place. The Scissor Sisters prove that in one of the most imaginative and enjoyable ways I've encountered in a really long time. Rock purists - go and re-alphabetise your vinyl collections. .


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