Scissor Sisters

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    MO! MOnkey`ead!

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    Anyone heard anything of there?

    My girlfriends been going on an on an on an on an on about them.....

    Heard a few tracks now. Sort of Bee-Gees with electronic flava!

    One for AT perhaps!
     
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    Saw the video for their version of 'Comfortably Numb' this morning on MTV... I don't like Pink Floyd so am not really aware of how the original sounds but, though I was all ready to dislike Scissor Sisters, actually thought it was pretty good.

    Not sure how it would compare to their original material though.
     
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    jimmymcfarrell Anyone fancy a pint?

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    Haven't heard it so I cant really comment, but covering the Floyd has got to be wrong!!

    Cheers for the link juboy
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    "not too shabby for a band nobody had heard of until the cover was released",
    isnt that like any band, you dont know about them 'till they release something (unless they're a local band or something), and if theyre a cheesy pop band you never hear of them again after!
     
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    sideshowbob Trisha

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    The Comfortably Numb thing is definitely an improvement on the original, stripping the whining and guitar noodling from it and turning it into a throwaway pop song is an excellent idea.

    (Incoming!)

    -- Ian
     
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    To a point, yes, but there is a reason bands who want to make an initial big impac and sell bucketloads of their first release often cover well known songs.

    If you're a rock band you also might be tempted to cover a revered classic - as several threads on various forums have proved, the outrage it causes raises the profile nicely ;)
     
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    MO! MOnkey`ead!

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    I had a flick through NME for the first time in yeeeeeeeears while waiting to meet someone yesterday, they're raving about the album. I think it was 9/10 "the anti conformist album of the year" or something.

    The band themselves said they hope for a bit of success with the single, but hope it doesn't get too big as they feel they've got better tunes............ ones they've wrote themselves, so MOre royalties ;)

    Oh, and it's friday, so they'll be on TOTP tonight I think.

    I'll be working though, so enjoy :(
     
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    sideshowbob I think it is rubbish; and i don't often say this about a song.

    GAZZ
     
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    You better duck then :) saw (and heard this) for the first time on Friday night and it made me so angry I wanted to kick the screen in. Bad, BAD ???? That's not the half of it. An utterly apalling, halfwitted, cynical, insult. I needed some calming down after that.
     
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    when i first heard there cover of cumftably numb i thought murderers and the like but after hearing it a few more times its not all that bad but it will never be as good as the original.

    I'm yet to hear any of there other work but would be willing to sit an lisen to it, but i do hear that their style changes a lot throughtout their self titeled album.
     
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    MO! MOnkey`ead!

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    Well, I've now heard quite a few of thier tunes now and can confidently predict they're going to be one of the bands of this year!

    And quite right too!

    Cheesy camp power disco, funny lyrics, and clever beats!

    Not all of it is as squeeky in the vocals.

    I'll write MOre when I've heard the album properly
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    I just found the the vocals made me shudder!! If the rest of their covers are the same (well most ) i'll be giving them a miss
     
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    MO! MOnkey`ead!

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    I think the rest of the album is original. And the vocals on the other tracks aren't quite as OTT. Still quite unique, but not quite as bee-gees. Quite cheesy, but pretty good IMO. Don't write them off on that one track, give em a listen and see what you think.
     
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    Uncle Ants, I'm with you all the way, man.

    The cover of Comfortably Numb is junk food for the brain; it's reality TV; it's Ant & Dec; it's Sunny Delight.

    I'm not a huge Floyd fan, and I don't have a problem with cover versions that are totally different from the original - unless they not only miss the point of the original, but miss having any point whatsoever. Did the Scissor Sisters actually read the lyrics? And why chuck out one of the most perfectly structured guitar solos of all time?

    This sort of whizzed-up, lobotamised, antiseptic twaddle should not be encouraged. It lowers the lowest common denominator. It makes people that listen to it stupid. Garbage in, garbage out, kids.

    In the words of Julian Vereker and Ivor Tiefenbrun - if you can't hear the difference, you're not worth talking to.
     
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    No it doesn't. You could equally say that by extracting the pop jewel from the hideously bloated and self-important original, the Scissor Sisters simultaneously reveal their intuitive understanding of pop culture, their wit, their willingness to cock a snook at bombast, and their respect for the potentialities within even the least promising source material. Given that they appear to be a part of the Noo York downtown art/fashionista crowd, that almost certainly is what they think they're doing. And they may have a point.

    -- Ian
     
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    And let us not forget here, the cover could not have been released at all were it not for the writers/copyright holders giving it the OK.

    It's therefore somewhat amusing to think that fans of a particular band might feel aghast at cover versions that the band themselves obviously have no problem with.
     
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    Dr Gilmour is giving so much to charridy these days that he may well welcome the wonga. Perhaps the Sisters also make him grin in a wryly postmodern way. But second-guessing the motivations of ageing rock stars will always make you feel Rotten.

    Point is that no jewel, pop or otherwise, has been extracted here. It's true that some of the bands working out of NYC at the moment are great at doing irony, but even giving the SS the benefit of that doubt, irony without integrity is dull and pointless indeed.
     
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    Who said anything about irony? My suggestion didn't imply they have an ironic purpose at all. That would be far too easy. I know nothing about their "integrity" either, or even what "integrity" means, far less whether it matters, in the context of throwaway pop music.

    Nothing's sacred in pop culture. Or any culture, for that matter. Quite right too.

    (FWIW I have no particular opinion about the Scissor Sisters, but anything that annoys Floyd fans has got to be worth seeking out.)

    -- Ian
     
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    Amen to that :beer: .
     
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    jimmymcfarrell Anyone fancy a pint?

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    but anything that annoys Floyd fans has got to be worth seeking out.)

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    Oh Dear. Thats a bit sad really isnt it!?!?! FLoyd are class, if you dont like them, its your loss.

    Still haven't heard scissor sisters cover - but everyone I know has said its sh*te.
     
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    I know nothing about their "integrity" either, or even what "integrity" means, far less whether it matters, in the context of throwaway pop music.
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    Absolutely right - integrity doesn't matter in throwaway pop music. Hence junk food analogy.

    The original Comfortably Numb wasn't a throwaway pop tune, though, so I'm not sure why it's a good idea to turn it into one. 'Because we can'? How very George W Bush.

    Some cultures have things that are sacred, y'know. Pop is not, of course, one of them.

    Yup, I love a good music argument - and when grandiose guitar bands are involved it really seems to fly, don't it?
     
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