Track Listing
1. Laura
2. Take Your Mama
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Mary
5. Lovers in the Backseat
6. T*Ts 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
| Details | | Producer: | Scissor Sisters | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Scissor Sisters: Jake Shears, Ana Matronic (vocals); Del Marquis (guitar); Babydaddy (bass instrument); Paddy Boom (drums).
Recording information: 5D, Brooklyn, New York; The Shed, New York, NY.
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.
Editorial Reviews
[An] explosively dance-y debut...
CMJ
The Scissor Sisters have arrived with a fun-yet-transparent ride, loudly partying in the expanse between the Darkness and Junior Senior.
Magnet
Ranked #21 in Uncut's Best New Albums of 2004 - [W]ell-crafted songs that hankered after and referenced the classic radio hits of Elton John and The Bee Gees.
Uncut
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - [Their] debut bridges stylistic and historic gaps with effortless grace...
Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 5 - Whether rocking a dance floor or orchestrating a lonely piano ballad, Scissor Sisters write great songs.
Rolling Stone
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