Reviews (page 6 of 7)
This an interesting album, if an occasionally haphazard one. The quality swings from pure brilliance to absolute dreck. Still, it's playful and clever and frank in a way you don't often hear in pop music. Fave Songs: Take Your Mama, Return to Oz, Mary, Comfortably Numb, Lovers in the Backseat
I’m tempted to rate this higher due to the three huge singles but unfortunately the rest of the album is kind of average and my god the Pink Floyd cover is dreadful. Balances out at a three
A few good tracks. Most likely won't listen to the album in the future.
Pink Floyd door de Bee Gees, en het werkt! Niet alle tracks zijn even memorabel maar al met al best een geinig plaatje.
Vrolijk en ongecompliceerd en ik vermoed dat dit het goed doet in de lhbtqi-community.
Definitely more inventive than the average pop group. Laura is a tune and don't mind take your mama out but find anything with two much singing in the high vocal range to be pretty grating, comfortably numb in particular. Think they deserve the accolades, it's just not really my thing
Odd one. Has some really great tunes but also some of the most annoying ones. I’ve never liked Comfortably Numb as a song anyway but this cover is absolutely atrocious. And Filthy/Gorgeous is annoying as hell. I’m going to give it 3 because of those few genuinely decent tracks.
3-4
The music is pretty good but boy does the singer's high-pitched become annoying after a while.
J'ai trouvé ca bon, rock et recherché comme son. Le cover de comfortably numb ma prit par surprise et je n'ai pas trop aimé mais l'album termine tellement sur une bonne note. C'est un bon album que j'ai du écouté 2 fois car je ne me souvenais pas de ma premiere écoute. Ca a son bon coté car ca veut dire que ca s'écoute bien, mais ca m'a pas marquéé 3.60
Dancing the night away. At least half. The dancier the tracks are the better they are. The more indie/rocky they are the less interesting they are. Give me a thumping backbeat and those sick falsetto vocals amd I'm very happy. The normal singing is less cool by far. Those tracks feel pretty standard. Some great bass grooves as well. I'd give a 3.5 if I could but too much is middling to round up here 3*
Surprisingly my least favorite was the Pink Floyd cover
Thought I'd hate it more than I did, but this is decent glam-rock. Still not a huge fan of the genre but this is better than most.
опять обман... опять не записываем ревью... сёстры хорошие, несколько песен знаю и пляшу, надо послушать всю дискографию
Nobody has ever listened to Comfortably Numb and thought "you know what shit needs? A cover with a knockoff version of the Bee Gees" and yet here we are.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
3.5
Well that's different. Well done different.
Punches itself out in the second half, take your mama and filthy I remember as the big singles, felt like the grand return of disco, really like their version of comfortably numb as it’s so different
What a disappointment it was to see this as my second album of the challenge, after starting with Rush and looking forward to another classic album. My expectations for this were something poppy, cheesy and annoying. I knew I'd be turning my Spotify on to private session when I listened, so that my last.fm, song kick et al didn't start giving me pop recommendations. This intro might position me as a music snob but it was my honest reaction before listening. I was sure I'd recognise a song off this but couldn't think of one specifically. I googled the album before listening and saw it was critically well reviewed but knew that stylistically this was likely to be a one listen only album for me. I put it on at 7am while prepping my 10 month olds bottle and of course she immediately started dancing. I recognised the first two songs immediately, high quality pop from an era when there was a decent amount of stuff like this. Laura is a good song, take your mama less so but obviously a catchy hit too. The Comfortably numb cover was a surprise, not sure it worked for me but quite creative. The album slows down with Mary, a pleasant ballad, and then comes lovers in the backseat, which had a cool intro but was a forgettable song otherwise for me. Likewise, tits on the radio had a good baseline but was a bit skippable as a song, especially the chorus. Filthy gorgeous was another song that's perfectly fine but not for me, Clive. And the next few songs were all pleasant enough tunes that don't feel like they will stick long in the memory, although I enjoyed the strange breakdown in better luck next time, that almost felt like a hoedown. Return to oz also stood out to me for being such a change of tone, while the final couple of bonus tracks were perfectly serviceable, particularly get it get it. At 19 years old there was no chance I'd give this album a list, so I appreciate the prompt aged 38. It was worth a listen and something out of my usual tastes. Has this album a place on this list? I can at least say that, from my limited experience, it's better than most pop I've heard from the last 25 years. I like the retro disco feel and general seventies vibes. But is it elevated to a must listen album? I'd argue not. I even sped through the tracks one more time before I moved on, which I hadn't expected to do. is my favourite on the album. Will I listen again? Unlikely, unless my 10 month old has a say- it's not my sort of music and I won't be saving it on my playlist from this challenge, but that's more on me than on the album and perhaps I'm missing out by having less fun pop in my life. 6/10 - a few great pop tunes and plenty of filler
Laura, opening track is catchy. Take Your Mama is definitely a great song. Vocals are great, almost Elton John-esque. Catchy. The disco Comfortably Numb cover... not really doing it for me. I mean it does sound a bit like a Beegees song this way, but it's too cheesy to me. Mary sounds good too! Production overall pretty good. Catchy stuff, good vocalist.
I like the general vibe of this. I appreciated the Comfortably Numb cover and I kind of like the lightness of the sound and weirdness of the worlds here. Nothing too sticky, though, not like I Don't Feel Like Dancing or She's My Man. But still, fun enough for the background, I think.
Interesting. On the one hand, this sounds oh so very early 2000s indie rock and the kind of thing that would’ve sent journalists off to write their next “rock is dead and dance is back” article for some music blog that no longer exists. On the other, it also sounds like the SNL skit where Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake pretend to be the BeeGees. And despite all of that… I didn’t hate it! More than anything, it sounds mostly like Elton John (hat tip, Andy). I was thinking though of musicians who sound like Elton John and my list ended up being only 2 long. And one of them is Elton John himself. Then I was thinking, ya know what? I bet Elton John would like this band. I could totally see that. And that made me feel better about it all. I probably won’t listen to this band again. (Unless they do a whole album of disco Pink Floyd covers; not that “Numb” was good, but it was admittedly interesting.) But I liked “Return to Oz,” and “Tits on the Radio,” as well as a few others I don’t remember the names of. Let’s call it a 2.5 but I’ll round up to be nice.
Didn't care for the beginning or ending but quite liked the more electroclashy middle section of Lovers in the Backseat, Tits on the Radio, and Filthy/Gorgeous.
7/10
My view in 2004: Laura is a 5 star song. The Pink Floyd cover is good. Other songs are OK in general, but a bit too much pastiche. My view in 2023: exactly the same, and I do not feel this album belongs to the list despite its sale success. Score: 5/10.
Not sure whether to take this seriously but it is overall not a bad listen.
Les Scissor Sisters ont été adoptées par Elton John et les Bee Gees, et l'influence de cette co-parentalité se ressent à chaque instant à l'écoute de cet album de coiffure-pop.
3.5 - Back in the early 2000's, with the advent of legal and unfettered access to ALL music, there was this surge in bands whose seemingly sole purpose was to recombine nuggets from passé genres unearthed within the depths of YouTube. This album reflects that rummaging spirit, melding Elton John-informed piano balladry ("Marie") with Pink Floyd-styled psych-prog ("Return to Oz") with bits of 70's swamp-funk. A thick irony binds everything together as well as lots of cheeky falsetto. Mostly this sounds like the playlist for a "Pimps 'N' Hoes"-themed house party.
It's fun to take a non-disco song from the disco era and do a disco cover. I'm sure a lot of Pink Floyd fans cringed but I liked it.
Funky pop, fun but okay overall. Did not like the voice
Filthy/Gorgeous gives me memories of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games.
Fun in places, but just feels messy in others.
It was fine. I’d give it more of a review, but I don’t really want to. It was fine.
I have questions. Two and a half stars
Eh
A bit too happy for me. But ok, Take your Mama. Great song, at least as a party song
It was alright! I liked a few tracks more than others.
3.25
bad aged
A real mixed bag, this. Some funky electro pop, a couple of nice ballads, a fair bit of trash, and an excruciating cover of Comfortably Numb. Just squeaks a 3 on the strength of most of the first half, but that does feel pretty generous (and probably helped by me being a teenager when this came out).
first time listening i liked the first half of the album better than the back half
Energetic, fun, irreverent and, really, who hasn't wanted to know what Tits On The Radio sound like?
Pretty average
3/5. The first half of the album contains some very important and danceable songs. The second half is a little less fortunate. Also, as innovative the Comfortably Numb song is, hard to beat the original. Best Song: Take Your Mama.
Better than I remembered
'twas aight
These songs suggest - if they don't demand - more radical hairstyles. Nevertheless, Scissor Sisters is a bright debut which fairly rounds itself out.
Good album, high energy and original
It's a bop
Fine, some catchy some weird.
Pretty fun album
Fun enough and I remember this as a breath of fresh air when it came out. The sound and style remind me of Mika a few years after this release.
Not feeling this one. The Comfortably Numb cover is awful. On the other hand, Filthy/Gorgeous and Return to Oz are good. It’s tough for me to judge this objectively because I don’t like “pop band” music at all.
I forgot how many hits they had. My only critique is they try to hit too many styles from disco to funk, etc. But a good disc nonetheless. 3.5/5
Not bad, I can handle some modern Disco or whatever the hell you'd call this much better on a Tuesday morning then a Monday. Best tracks are "Take your Mama" and "Tits on the Radio"
This is so good Steadily going down from the first song 3
This was a fun album but I wouldn't say that this is super great. Not really very memorable. 6/10
I thought the album was good Good experimentation with the instruments and I liked the vocals
Comfortably Numb
Sara nije slusala jer se spremala da joj dodje decko Marko 2
At first I was like, I don't like disco but this seems kind of genuine so maybe it's not that bad. The longer this album went the more in burned me out, by the end I couldn't wait for it to be over. I don't think it's necessarily bad but it's definitely not my taste in music.
Surprisingly, I didn't hate this. Well ok, I did kind of hate the tracks that leaned more into disco and dance, but some of the more glam rock/art rock tracks were actually pretty decent. That said, this album is getting a 2/5 for that cover of Comfortable Numb alone. While I do appreciate when an artist covers a song in their own style, absolutely no one was asking for a disco version of Comfortably Numb.
Bland and uninspiring. Not necessarily mediocre, they do some novel things and have a unique sound, but it’s just not a collective good.
Fine, but slightly annoying somehow.
how did people survive the early 2000s
Listened til Comfortably Numb, i.e. stopped after three tracks. Too fine a day to waste on mediocrity.
Favorite track(s): Lovers in the Backseat Besides the one track, it all came and went. Should've been another UK indie album for all it was worth.
Fuck sake
You include the album thats without their only hit. What the fuck
Bought this at time on the strength of a couple of singles. Disappointed then. Still disappointed. Dated from the day it was released. But Floyd fans should get over their comfortably numb angst. It’s a pretty good cover. And return to biz is a pretty good Floyd pastiche - though I’m sure that’s not what they were aiming for
I don’t get it at all
I remember reasonably enjoying the followup to this album 20 years ago(!), so I thought I'd like this, but ultimately I found it all a bit empty feeling.
Meh
I was familiar with the band's name, but not their music. Yeah, it was kind of funny. Something like that would definitely be a lot of fun in a disco or a gay bar. But the botched cover of the Pink Floyd song changes the review of the album from ok to vomit. 2/5
Bee Gees Jr. Not sure about it yet.
How the fuck did this album ever sell over 3 million copies? 3/10
CUT!
The comfortably numb cover makes me angry I enjoyed the other album with I can't decide as a kid but this album feels like a slightly more sophisticated venga boys
Couldn't really get a good read on this one. Some enjoyable stuff throughout but a very different sound that mostly was not for me. 4/10
Never listened. Expectations: Low - Verdict: Not For Me - This opening track is definitely catchy although I'm not sure I would ever reach to put it on. The intro of Take Your Mama really reminds me of Movin' On Up. I quite enjoy the falsetto vocals. The Floyd cover makes me feel uncomfortable, it's nowhere near as good as their own material and while it is a creative take on a classic, it's just awful. Mary is decent while Lovers In The Backseat is quite poor. After a really quite a strong start this has gone downhill pretty quickly.
Not for me!
I like the name of the group 😂. I vibe with some of the tunes (shout out take your mama)… but over all only going 2.2. Hard to really get into it.
Didn't enjoy this. The production is weak and they murdered a Floyd song.
this is fine and fun but doesnt feel new or an improvement on elton, bowie, or t-Rex
Just absolute butcher of Comfortably Numb, sounded like The Bee Gees blew a line of crystal meth and played the song for a clown convention. MI6 you win again!
It wasn’t terrible, but for most of the album they just sounded like an Elton John cover band. I’d rather throw on “Honky Chateau” and listen to the real thing than this. And the cover of “Comfortably Numb” was really awful.
Not for me sorry
I don’t know, sounds like a George Michael rip off
2.5
2.0
Dance club alternative electronica, sounds like some Prince inspired electronic dance music. I am not a fan of the falsetto singing style in most of the songs. Its okay but not a genre that would get a lot of replay in my collection, now if I was a DJ it would be worth having.
This felt really long.
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I was extremely excited for this album !! Such high energy, a great vibe ! Really unique cover of a Pink Floyd song. Fav song is ‘Take Your Mama’.
Itunes ass music. 3/10
Left over synthpop found in the back of the fridge 20 years later and microwaved into a hot on the outside cold on the inside mush. Lots of cool textures and sounds, not much in terms of hooks/songs, pretty tepid predictable beats. Stock by the numbers millenial 80s revival stuff that takes the synths more into plodding indie than into than exuberant neo-disco.
Highlight - Take Your Mama. Song gave me an Elton John feel. 2.4
An uncomfortable mix of disco, dance, electronica and pop. Oof.
I reserve a particular level of ire for artists who murder classic songs that I love. The first I was aware of Scissor Sisters was their take on Comfortably Numb. I think I cried. Somebody should've had a quiet word with them at the time and put that poor thing out of its misery before it hit the engineering desk. The opener, Laura, triggered a little fond nostalgia from those heady university days but otherwise, this is an LP I can live without. The camp falsetto and 70s disco stylings frequently undo the good work laid down by some downright filthy basslines and head-nodding beats. I can't quite hate it as much as I want to, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
첫곡은 좋았는데 전체는 좀 아쉽네여 2?3?
awful. terrible pink floyd cover
Catchy at first, exhausting by the end. Scissor Sisters songs are meant to be listened to one at a time with a good buffer in between. A whole album is...challenging.
Not as bad as many others.
Favorite - It Can’t Come Quickly Enough 5/10
I didn’t completely hate it, but not my cup of tea either. I like that, as a band, they embrace the queer scene as much as they do and brought it more into the mainstream as a result, but musically I’m not too fond of what they do. Jack Shears’ voice doesn’t appeal to me at all, and this seems to take a lot of the roots of disco music but removed the soul of it in favour of production that is frequently a bit too overblown.
Scissor Sisters was surprisingly tolerable for a modern pop album. I'm not at all in the market for modern pop, but I can definitely see that this would probably be a good album for the right listener. That being said, I think their cover of "Comfortably Numb" might be one of the worst covers I've ever heard, and of a song I really like, which really hurt the album's image for me, along with "Filthy/Gorgeous". Its saving grace, and what helped soften the blow, was the last track, "Return to Oz". Out of all of the songs on the album, it actually felt like the one with the most actual soul and emotion. As a random extra, I think the cover art is pretty cool as well. Favorite Song: "Return to Oz"
The Pink Floyd and Bee Gees mash up of “Comfortably Numb” is fun. Be the rest is meh.
Pixies y Brreders ya estaban ocupados así que Scissorr Sisters era un buen nombre. La música, desenfadada, entre la disco y el glam, pues estaba bien para pasar el rato pero no para este listado. Comfortably Numb es una buena versión. Filthy/Gorgeous fue un tremendp éxito como este debut, sin embargo el soguiente Ta-Dah incluye su mejor canción: “I Don't Feel Like Dancin' y poor la que serán recordados.
I was going to give it 3 stars as an ok pop album but the god awful version of Comfortably Numb changed my mind
Pretty average, drags out after a bit.
Every so often, maybe not as much these days, an American act breaks big in the UK but never moves the needle much in their home country. Why this one Limeys? It’s just thisside of being the US entrant in Eurovision ’04, sometimes very camp, deliberately so, elsewhere heartfelt and earnest enough it even gains my respect. But the specific 70s glam roots honours a time in music that doesn’t do a great deal for me and so largely feels like an empty tribute act. Not bad, but nothing I expect I’d listen to again nor be able to pick out of a similar set of songs at the club.
I could listen to "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" by the Scissor Sisters every single day. But that song is not on this album. What was on this album was a terrible rendition of a Pink Floyd song and a few other duds though.
Why not just listen to original disco, which was better? And as a Pink Floyd fan, I found the cover of Comfortably Numb to be an abomination.
It's alright in parts, and not so much in others. Take your mama is the obvious stand out for me.
I remember hearing about these. I also can’t remember anything about any of the songs on the album. Either it’s the wrong album or it’s no good. In any case it shouldn’t be here. 2
The best song is the first one, Laura, but even on re-listen it doesn't hit the same for me. Soulless grooves, paper grandeur. No wonder this went number one in the UK.
If this album was a US state it would be Kansas
After a bit of intrigue with song 1 or 2, Comfortably Numb was stylistically not to my liking. Then I had a Elton John or ABBA vibe and things did not recover. I appreciate the different sound, and I don't care for it.
So so
I'm not sure what the hell I just listened to
I don’t know, it’s fine, some of the songs are better than I expected but overall it doesn’t do much for me.
Lite för lättsmält för min smak och många låtar som man glömmer direkt. Take your mama höjdpunkten. Kul bonusspårsgrej.
Kommer aldrig kunna förlåta Comfortably Numb i falsett...
det här albumet fick mig att reflektera över vad som hände i min barndom som fick mig att börja hata scissor sisters
Listen, I bleed glitter. I owned this album back in the day. And yet I've never been wholly convinced by Scissors Sisters. Revisiting this album reminds me why: there isn't much there once you peel back the layer of their influences. I can see why the album's been removed from the current edition.
Nej nej nej. Ylande hela tiden. Har musik alltid varit såhär yligt. Varenda skiva är fan ylandet. Denna är inte bättre. Falsettsången funkar inte. Basoktaver i var och varannan låt är skitstörigt. Säger jag som bassist dessutom. Bra låtar: Mary Take your mama (hit) - Känns lite Eagles of Death Metal
Meh
Not a bad album, but not something I really enjoyed. I wanted to, but it just didn’t work for me. 2.5/5
It's sonically well done. Not my thing. This was peak dance music remixes of songs era too.
what can you say about this joke band. bright poppy rubbish
2.5
Very glammy, and certainly not my style. The Pink Floyd cover is a crime against humanity. 2 stars
2.5
Not for me.
Not fully unpleasent, but it just wasn't what I wanted. Not my cup of tea. There were some moments of some songs that I enjoyed.
Eh not really my thing. The vocals are kind of annoying and the "Comfortably Numb" cover sucks ass. Favorite track: It Can't Come Quickly Enough 2.5/5
Pas mon style
Kind of a fun throwback to the 70s at times, at others (notably the exceptionally awful comfortably numb cover) it was prettt grating
This is kind of everything I dislike about 2000s music. I don’t want to say I hate it, but I definitely don’t like it.
first 2 songs activated like a sleeper agent installed in my 6year old brain
Not special to me.
I guess this is something if you like to dance. I don't like to dance, probably because I don't like to be subjected to this type monotonous, puerile drivel. I liked Music Is the Victim. I'll give the album 2 stars for that.
Take yo mama
Since this is no longer on the current list, there is nothing to say here. Still, a downvote for the abysmal cover of Comfortably Numb.
The singles from this album are decent enough but the presentation and the stylised vocals have a very limited shelf life. Towards the end the album becomes ridiculous and unlistenable.
Some okay songs, mostly just boring and not very special
Litt artig liksom, men også irriterande. Trengte kje den Comfortably Numb-coveren i livet mitt
Idk wtf this is, but if its one of the greatest 1000 albums, then what's the point? 2 stars because I found myself bopping to "Mary". Also, because camp.
This wasn’t bad. I was expecting it to be far more difficult to get through. It is well played and well executed. Their cover of Comfortably Numb made me smile thinking about all the enraged Floyd fans crying into their cat litter. This is a solid record for what it is.
I'm going to rate this a 2 because of that Pink Floyd cover. A light 3 otherwise.
Weak start ... uh oh. First track is annoying. Why is this here? And why is this deserving of a 3 disc deluxe edition? (I'm only listening to disc 1). I don't really like this. :(
Not sure why the rest of the world liked this group so much better than their native U.S. Could be that most of the songs really sort of suck, with the exceptions of "Take Your Mama" and "Tits on the Radio," which are kinda fun. They don't really make up for what must be the worst ever cover of "Comfortably Numb," though.
Not a huge fan of it
I’m pretty sure I was not the target audience for this record. I was sophisticated enough to get the sly reference the name implies, but for me a pop dance record is not that interesting. Gay disco has been around for decades and frankly done better. None of these tracks are catchy enough to be memorable and time has not been kind to this record. I recall the faux outrage of the cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, but the track is really a like it or leave it proposition. Listening to the album all the way through for the first time and then going back to see if I missed something, the record is rather kitschy but mostly lifeless. It’s bad when a dance pop record doesn’t catch your attention. And for that, Track 8 Music Is The Victim encapsulates how I feel about this record.
awful "Comfortably Numb" cover which sounded like "Stayin Alive" by The Bee Gees.
Some ok songs, but mostly just bad
Disappointingly this does not feature have Don't Feel Like Dancin'. Sad. The Pink Floyd cover actually killed me, that was so dogshit hahahaha what the fuck was that!????? That made me laugh so hard. For a relatively talented band, what the fuck were they thinking? Anyways, what a nothingburger of an album for my 300th. Not a single risk taken, just a generic, soulless piece of trash made to sell albums from hit singles. Though I'm not even sure what the hit singles are supposed to be on this thing. Imagine coming home from your first Iraq deployment, having your legs blown off because that's what Blair compelled you, and the first thing you hear on the radio is this. I did enjoy Filthy/Gorgeous. It's clear to me that the band Confidence Man definitely took a lot of inspiration from that style. It sounds extremely similar in sound to their debut album. The latter half of this monstrosity definitely perks up and becomes fairly listenable. But unfortunately it's too late and the damage is already done. 40 minutes into an album isn't enough. for me to change my mind on this being dogshit.
This is impressive as a debut album but I wasn't thrilled by it. Plastic, new-millennium, knock-off disco. I have never been so non-plussed listening to music that is very clearly supposed to evoke a feeling of fun. The cover of Comfortably Numb wasn't very good but at least they gave it a new spin rather than doing a straight (har har har) cover. As far as genres go, all the disco influence in this reminds me how much I would rather be listening to actual disco.
- Zeer meh - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM
Mye Elton John homage. En del generell glam pastiche. Også en god dose Bee Gees, åpenbart. Overraskende OK, men langt ifra et essensielt album.
Disco Comfortably Numb doesnt do it for me. Nothing about the album was offensively bad. Love all the "you just don't know how bad early 00's music was, this was the best we had" takes. Hot garbage. TVOTR, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Strokes all out at the same time, all wildly better than this.
Yeah. I was not in the mood for this one. Didn't really enjoy it all that much.
Kind of a hard album to like, to be totally honest. Very mom-and-pop radio station, 'school disco' music. Had a couple tracks I liked but overall the glam rock whiny-voiced schtick was (rightly) worn out decades before this dropped. There's some promise in the funkier basslines (Filthy/Gorgeous comes to mind as having that The Trammps sound) that get drowned out by overperformed vocals and uninspired instrumentation/composition. fav tracks: It Can't Come Quickly Enough (actually really liked this one at least, even if it's a real tonal shift)
I have rarely felt as much pain as when I listened to Comfortably Numb on this record. I really like Take Your Mama, but other than that I’m not really into this
Meh
I don't understand this album. It sounds like a communal stew of sounds, but it doesn't work.
Ruim.
This is weak and stupid. I liked the cover of Pink Floyd, though. The original is eerie and I'd expect that a cover would maintain that eeriness. But this one does it not. At all. It sounds more like a bunch of middle-age party goers would dance to while in ecstasy or whatever stupid drug.
Ça sonne comme y'a 30 ans mais ça juste 20 ans, pas dans le bon sens du terme.
Cette tasse de thé ne m'appartient pas.
Songs like "Mary" and "Take Your Mama" were good, but the rest was sub-par.
Scissor sisters are really hit or miss but the misses REALLY stand out
I don’t need to hear this again. Some songs where ok but this is too long.
Na
Elton-Disco-Funk for millennials. I swear to Fairuza Balk that the Return to Oz Pink Floyd pastiche at the end of the album sucked.
Not this though.
The falsetto does get old rather quickly. Without that quirk, not a lot is ledt. Ironically the extra songs on the UK album are better than the album itself. 2/5
Beginning is good but then kinda drops
Ok 2/5
Interesting but a little to poppy for me
It’s super camp but it doesn’t connect with me. I think it’s a product of its time and hasn’t aged well, or it’s just too commercial for me. I’m sure in the right place (mostly a drag show) this would be enjoyable but as a casual listen it doesn’t do it for me. Also calling this the top gay album of all time is insulting when Village People, Elton John, and even George Michael exist.
Ever wanted to know the Bee Gees' take on Comfortably Numb? No? Well here it is anyway, sorry.
Gotta extend a lot of grace to the compilers for the post 2000 stuff. Obviously hard in the moment to know what will stick. And I guess this did better in the UK than the US. It picks up a bit when the gal starts singing through the back half. Any points for a comfortably numb/staying alive mashup detracted for being monumentally annoying tho. C'mon list, get it together.
I wonder how many bands out there are named after sexual activity! Anyway this is pretty mediocre stuff, nothing too special. As the album continues, it descends into pretty undistinguished disco music. Pretty forgettable.
neither particulary offended nor impressed. sounds v dated for 2004.
Pretty fun and funky. Not sure how relevant or "must hear" it is but I did enjoy it.
Bleh. Not for me.
The hit was alright, the cover of comfortably numb was horrible. The rest of the songs went from somewhat rubbish to okay, I wished the album was over earlier.
Such an interesting sound but wasn’t for me, I did not have a drive to listen to it
Not terrible, but not amazing either. Take Your Mama is definitely the best song on the album.
Not my thing, def not a must listen
I don't envision this album clicking for me or recommending anyone else listening to it. Too many confused sonic ideas and the only theme I can discern is "gay"
I remember when this album was released and the songs that were everywhere on the radio. The songs that hit it big still holds up but for me the album as a whole becomes to much after a few songs in a row.
It's ok as background music & an occasional listen (I actually have it on CD), but that's about it. However Comfortably Numb is a travesty, should have been drowned at birth!
Album was fine, easy to listen to
Not for me.
does this generator hate me??????? i am happy that this album is as short as it is because i just didn't like the vocals since they have this quality where they're really good at getting yr attention. The instrumental is a lot better but its mixed much too low in comparison to the vocals, which were so bad i was cringing at some points at the auditory experience i had been given. The stuff in the fifth track that goes back and forth in between your ears is great and the vocals are growing on me as the album progresses, in fact the whole thing becomes less of an assault on my ears as it goes. This sounds like new mother mother tbh. overall it was fine but im leaning towards having a dislike of it due to the grating vocals at the start.
Its OK but nothing that blew my mind. Sinple good album but nothing magical.
point9.
This one has a few things that I like, but it doesn't quite work for me. There's a lot going on but it doesn't quite come together.
so much potential! so much weirdness
extremely funny to get this album the day i put my cds in storage n lost access to my cd player (temporarily) (i got a used copy of this + never listened). sounds like everything that came out from 1974-78 all smushed together. which is interesting because i go "well this is derivative!" but like, it doesn't really rip off anything and has a unique sound. i'll bat for the Comfortably Numb cover but not much stuck with me. deserves to be one of the 1001? maybe
It's like the transition phase between rock and modern pop. We had no idea what to create and where we were going so we created this shit
I saw Scissor Sisters twice in about the space of a year. In the first instance, they were in the Limelight, supported by the Vichy Government. In the second, I accompanied my mother to see them in the King's Hall, supported by... I don't remember. However, the transition wasn't as extreme as it appears on paper. In the Limelight, they were obviously being pushed as an up-and-coming cool group that might break big and draw in exactly the crowd that made up the King's Hall audience: mothers, awkward teens, Radio 1 listeners. Putting them together with the Vichy Government was predicated on a very tenuous grasp of what it meant back then to provoke audiences, to challenge gender norms, to side with pop over rock. And, thus, the Scissor Sisters went on to huge venues and record sales and the Vichy Government did not. There is nothing more to the music of Scissor Sisters than a few Elton John records when he was closeted, all without the tension provided by that thinly-veiled secret. The band's queer openness is coy to anyone who has heard Pansy Division or Jobriath or Phranc or Jayne County or Coil or a million other artist, so safe and pliant that it verges on minstrelsy. It is middle-aged Graham Norton. It is, to borrow an epithet from John Lennon, "granny shit." Those were the people, my beloved mother among them, who danced to it and for whom it was designed all along. I've previously criticised Red Hot Chilli Peppers for their jerky, funkless funk. Well, Scissor Sisters and their sexless dance music is worse. Although the record is toploaded with singles, a bad sign itself, this listener is given a quick primer to how unfunky and unpopping this plodding dance-pop record is: the flat-footed sixteenth notes of Laura; the player piano syncopation of Take Your Mama; and always bouncing octaves on the bass instead of licks, riffs, or grooves. It's all rigid, easy for the mamas who have been taken out to dance to between the fold-down seats on the slanted banks of the arena, but that rigidity gives away how mechanical - nay animatronic - it all is. Reading back before posting, I realise that the Lennon quote and what it engenders reeks of agism and misogyny. I won't spare my blushes by taking it out, but will reiterate what I think he meant when he used to call out McCartney's pop writing: parodic, fourth-quadrant, commercial, unchallenging, integrationist stuff that touches everyone, but offers nothing. That's this record, which is fine now and again, but, even as a part record, it falls apart pretty quickly. Go to the B-52s first record to see how it should be done. 1.5 I shuddered when I saw this album come up. I listen to a local commercial radio station for most of my working day and ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancing’ is a daily horror. It isn’t on this album I know, but it is the song of theirs I hear the most (Filthy/Gorgeous also makes a regular appearance) and I hate it very much. So when I think ‘Scissor Sisters’ that horrible blabbering chorus pops into my head and I wince. To be honest though I quite enjoyed listening to some of their debut album today. The singles aren’t brilliant songs but they are stupidly charming and I credit their songwriting for effort at the very least. These songs, albeit superficially, recall the work of some great songwriters; Stevie Wonder and the Bee Gees among others and there is nothing wrong with taking your cues from up there. Elton John is also referenced. Of course the arse completely falls out of this album after Filthy/Gorgeous but that too is forgivable - they were trying to keep the party going as long as possible. 2/5
Funny name, not a fan otherwise
Just weird. Not my thing . Can appreciate it. But just no. Comfortably numb please kill me #bringbackpinkfloyd
I found this more entertaining than I expected, in a "dance for me, clown" kind of way. I would probably never willingly listen to this, but its fine.
Definition of mid
The disco cover of "Comfortably Numb" reinforces the way this feels like a gimmicky album of '70s knockoff novelty pop. "Take Your Mama" slaps, though.
I was thinking this album wasn’t too bad starting off, but then the cover of Comfortably Numb played and it’s absolutely horrendous. All downhill from there.
Kinda fun flare but not something I would groove to. They have a one hit on this album
Kind of a fun album, but it's really messy overall, and the flamboyance feels a bit too over the top sometimes which I think really dates this album a lot. Just with how much the LGBTQ community has evolved in the last 20 years, this hasn't really aged all that well.
Yeah, it's energic and danceable but I didn't feel that there was much more to it. Sometimes it sounded like an updated, more disco, version of Elton John.
Comfortably Numb, Bee Gees edition. For crying out loud, what was that??
Music is the victim, indeed.
Disco pop mix. Music not that interesting and lyrics weak.
Definitely an album for a specific time and place in history. Broadly referential to disco and Elton Johnlike boogey piano.
I kinda get why this album got so loved, even though it didn’t get much love in the US vs abroad. A lot of their choices don’t stack up musically to other examples in my opinion and for my own taste but I see why people would enjoy it. Their version of "Comfortably Numb" is so outrageous…. I can't tell whether it is brilliant or awful. As a big PF fan I was really caught off guard by this. I couldn’t help but wonder what David Gilmore would think
Blind album and artist, but apparently I liked Take your Mama at some point? Was the best track on the album. Didn't particularly enjoy this whole album too much and in fact comfortably numb made me uncomfortable
Disco pop, this was very popular at the time. No idea why
The start of the first song made me think I was about to hear Dolly Parton sing "9 to 5". The second song made me think I was listening to George Michaels's "Freedom". The third song is a tragic version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb", I hated it. This one isn't starting out well. There are some moments in this album but nothing I'd ever want to hear again.
It's kinda fun and weirdly I was very familiar with this group when I was really young - though I did kinda mix them up with Junior Senior - but I dunno. Not too big of a fan sadly
you know when something is just immediately so offputting and pisses u tf off right when you put it on
I'm sure it was probably pretty cool to have some openly gay musicians in the mainstream in the early 2000s, but the music is pretty terrible. When it's not blatantly ripping off better music (which is not often) it's woefully uninspired and the production is extremely bland, with nowhere near the level of cover or detail the cover suggests.
Who allowed these annoying dipshits to make a shitty disco cover of Pink Floyd? Who is responsible? What a boring album. Can’t utterly hate it but it’s just so boooooring.
Rubbish
Var helt klar til at give den en højere score, de første par sange var en fornøjelse (inkl det sindssyge cover af Comfortably Numb) men viste sig at være ret frontloaded. Synes anden halvdel var ret kedelig.
Album is all over the place. I’ll hear something nice and then something unlistenable comes on
5/10 meh
Surprised by how much I did not like this album since I do enjoy a couple of their songs a lot.
I remember the two singles from this album and loved their disco vibes so I'm excited to see how this goes. Upon further reflection, the other Scissor Sisters song I know, was off of a different album. It's funny I've listened to "Take Your Mama" probably a thousand times, and I never noticed before how similar it is to George Michael's "Faith" which I have also listened to a thousand times. Somehow the cover of "Comfortably Numb" actually made me dizzy. "Tits on the Radio" would slap way more if it had different lyrics although the idea of there not being tits on the radio does crack me up a little bit. "Filthy/Gorgeous" is great, I picture it blasting in a gay nightclub with everybody dancing. That being said, I don't know that I will listen to it again. "Music is a Victim" is the highlight of the album so far for me and it will go on my playlist. The last few songs are sort of not memorable. I enjoyed this, but mostly because of genre, as opposed to liking it because it's very good?
That comfortably numb cover is genuinely disgusting
Don't like glam rock. I'm starting to become a rock hater because I have not loved any of the rock albums yet.
De kloge siger at når man laver en coverversion af en sang, så er det vigtigt at man gør det til sin egen. Det må man sige Scissor Sisters gør med Pink Floyds klassikker. Desværre lyder det som om Roger Waters er druknet i et orgie med Bee Gees, Right Said Fred og Frankie Goes To Hollywod. Det meste af albummet balancere mellem nogle fine melodier og noget sjovt musik som fanger og giver mig lyst til at ryste røven. Desværre virker de sidste par sange ret ligegyldige og giver en følelse af at albummet flader ud i stedet for at lukke med et brag. Det kunne være blevet til tre stjerner, men maltrakteringen af et af de få PF sange jeg virkelig har kært er så voldsomt at det trækker ned. Lige der var musikken et offer, og det var jeg også.
Interesting. I loved the cover of ‘Comfortably Numb’ when this album came out. Probably the main reason I got it, along with ‘Tits on the Radio’. (The title of the latter alone appealed to my puerile post-adolescent sense of humour. Now it leaves me vaguely nauseous. It hasn’t changed. I have. I can’t with any confidence say that I’ve changed for the better, though…
Couple of good pop songs, the rest is very forgettable
Worst version of comfortably numb ever!
Some of it wasn’t bad.
Was gonna give this three stars but that Pink Floyd cover was diabolical.
I didn't like it back then and I don't like it now. I don't hate it neither but I'll never get the appeal. Also 50 minutes long? nah man
Ihan meneviä biisejä, mut falsettia liikaa mun makuun.
Wait, Scissor Sisters was released in the 2000s. I was convinced this was some ridiculous album from the 1970s. It’s a hypersexual, bizarre album that’s all over the place. 4.6/10
This album is pretty much everything I hate about music. However, I can imagine other people genuinely like it. So not bad enough for 1 star. Favorite song: return to oz.
This was a weird. It’s started out alright and then they transformed one of the greatest Pink Floyd songs (Comfortably Numb) into some kind of Bee Gee’s ripoff. I don’t know what to think anymore.
There was nothing about this album that would make me think it belongs on this list. It was very normal. Nothing exceptional about it at all.
This album stinks. Was that the chipmunks singing comfortably numb?
Was all the energy snip snipped away from this recording? The first track was encouraging but from there out there were songs that I could envision being into but there was something just so flat and uninspiring about the delivery of them. Lovers in the Backseat for example, I really do think there is a great pop song there but there’s no excitement in the delivery. I don’t know if this a production problem, lead singer problem but it felt like there was a wet blanket thrown over this one in the studio. Go listen to of Montreal if you want a true disco resurgence project with some inspiration and energy. 2 stars
Lots of fun at the time but apart from the big hitters there's not a lot to see here. And Comfortably Numb still grates.
There was a certain level of cheesiness to this album that kept me from really enjoying it. There were some catchy hooks and a couple of standout songs, but I would skip over most of this if I were to revisit. Return to Oz is worth adding to my list.
Okay early 2000s pop/rock.
Not for me
Groupe totalement inconnu. Premier contact donc avec 'Laura', qui commence mal avec un son de synthé vraiment mauvais (il a très mal vieilli), mais qui se rattrape vers la fin (petit chorus). 'Take Your Mama', funk rock assez réussi. Par contre je n'ai pas de tout apprécié le massacre de 'Comfortably Numb', que j'ai été obligé de passer tellement je l'ai trouvé mauvais. Dommage pour les morceaux qui suivent, ils partent avec un fort désavantage même si quelques morceaux sont plutôt réussis (groove basse, petits chorus). Et d'autres franchement ratés comme 'Filthy/Gorgeous' avec l'utilisation d'un auto-tune très mauvais. Je ne risque pas d'écouter cet album de nouveau ... =>2/5
This was interesting. Some of the songs were quite nice (eg. Return to Oz), but others were just bizarre and not very fun to listen to (eg. the crazed EDM cover of Comfortably Numb). I had to push myself to continue listening to it, so I'd have to say that the good songs did not outweigh the bad. Two stars.
I never really liked Scissor Sisters when they became big so I was intrigued that this album was on the list and how it would fare. There's not really that much I can say about it in all honesty. It's mostly just inoffensive pop and dance music. 'Lovers in the Backseat' is the best track that wasn't a single and I hadn't heard before. 'Filthy/Gorgeous' which is another highlight, has to be one of the most outrageously over the top songs to ever enter the UK charts. Overall, I didn't hugely enjoy it that much. A few highlights here and there but overall slightly boring.
2 out of 5. Nothing really stood out for me on this one.
Take Your Mama will never not be a banger, but the rest of the songs aren't anything to come back to. And the cover of Comfortably Numb is painful
ChatGPT: please produce an album that sounds like people in the 00's making a 70's pastiche album. Make sure to clumsily copy Bowie mostly but with a dash of Elton John, Kraftwerk and Parliament. Please make it weirdly soulless and annodyne. This sounds like the favourite album of a dusty politician who doesnt like music but wants to appear hip and woke. Im giving it an extra star because filthy/gorgeous somehow is a banger
This whole record's production sounds so flat and lifeless. This is a real drag, because as a hyper-glam pop outfit, it has to sound as slick and glitzy as possible — it certainly isn't getting by on the strength of its poetry or the god-awful "Comfortably Numb" cover. Ta-Dah and after have much more to offer in my view.
A couple alright songs, the majority of it I wasn’t interested by The third song made me lol
Isn't Take Your Mama just such a fun little song
Very throwaway, but not without its charms. It front loads all the big hits, and their cover of Comfortably Numb is the kind of thing I would tell a Pink Floyd fan is better than the original, even if I didn't believe it.
WTH is this? A few funky jams but overall just…. weird.
I did not feel like dancing.:(
All over the place but sort of interesting. I think I listened twice by accident though, so that tells you how little it grabbed my attention.
Kind of obnoxious, really.
Scissor Sisters is such a weird name for a band. I have always heard of them but never listened. That was very strange. That is normally music that I would like but this didn't do it for me. Maybe it was the incredibly weird cover of Comfortably Numb at the beginning of the album that set a weird tone. Some parts were pretty cool but most was really weird. I don't know maybe I need to give another listen sometime.
Modern disco?
Some great tracks, but as an album it didn’t move me.
Some really catchy stuff on here (“Mary”) but just not for me.
Lovers In The Backseat is the most toned-down song on the album so far and actually the most pleasant. And by toned-down I mean the pitch of the vocalist's voice The last two songs are nice too. Return To Oz is great even
"The first album of a genre - the record that defined a sound" is an album archetype that we have encountered a lot so far on this list. This must be the first case of the opposite, the last album ever made in a genre. At least I hope so.
Some interesting sounds but not really into it, 2-2.5
There were some great things about this album. The songs themselves where irreverent and funny, and the instrumentation and songwriting was great and created the moods they were going for. But I just found the album annoying. The high vocals were painfully grating, and a lot of the time, it seemed like the band thought they were funnier than they were and beat a few jokes to death. Overall, there’s good stuff in there, but it’s held back by some serious flaws
Ok for nostalgic trip but won't listen to it again.
Alas, not my thing at all. I listened but never really engaged
Pienissä pätkissä voisi maistuakin, mutta levyllinen tätä oli ihan liikaa.
Thanks for ruining "comfortably numb".
Heel ludiek hoor
I was introduced to the eccentric and grisly Scissor Sisters at the ripe old age of eleven by one of my childhood friends. It boils down to whether or not you enjoy listening to National Geographic™ tapes of wildcats moaning in heat, since that's about as close as I can get to describing the album's sound in words. Also, the Scissor Sisters's cover of "Comfortably Numb" was so unholy that no amount of David Gilmour's Strat solos can cleanth my ears.
Tajuan hittisinkun, en tajua Pink Floyd -coveria. Ylipäänsä levy on jokseenkin viihdyttävä, mutta sillä ei ole millään tavoin erottuvaa ilmettä - muuten kuin ehkä suhteessa julkaisun kontekstiin, millä ei historiallisesta näkökulmasta ole väliä. 2,5
This was fine, exactly as expected: very camp and glamorous, even overbearingly so. I am surprised the Scissor Sisters made the list, even more surprised that this album was chosen, not Ta Dah, with their two biggest hits on it. Still, this album had some nicely produced tracks, sounding a bit 70s or even 60s. Best track for me was the bonus Get It Get It, almost chiptune-like.
Rating: 5/10 Meh.
While I love all genres of rock and jazz, I have also always loved and lived in the worlds of electronica, dance, and industrial related genres of music as well. So, if I am being honest, this album feels like it was rewarded when it came out for virtue signaling in the LGBT community rather than for musical merit, as there were many more interesting albums in the genres of ebm, dance, disco, and pop rock albums that were released in 2004 when this album came out. Just off of my head I could name Mind.in.a.Box's LOST ALONE, Assemblage 23's STORM, June Reactor's LABYRINTH, and Chromeo's SHE'S IN CONTROL, all of which have lasted the test of time versus this one.
The self-titled debut album by Scissor Sisters is a vibrant and eclectic mix that showcases the band's knack for blending glam rock, disco, and pop. The album opens with the energetic Laura, a track that immediately grabs my attention with its catchy chorus and funky beats. Take Your Mama stands out as an anthemic and feel-good song, reflecting the band's playful and flamboyant style. While some tracks like Mary and Return to Oz delve into more sombre and introspective themes, the overall tone of the album remains upbeat and celebratory. The production is polished, and the instrumentation is lush, with vibrant keyboard lines and infectious rhythms. Jake Shears' distinctive falsetto and Ana Matronic's sassy vocal contributions add a unique flair to the album. Though not every track is a standout, the album's originality and fearless genre-blending make it a memorable debut. It's an album that captures the spirit of fun and experimentation, making it a worthwhile listen for anyone seeking something a bit different. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 3 STAND OUT TRACK - Filthy / Gorgeous
Maybe some other time. Not my jam, sorry. Weirdly popular in the UK - why? Average to below average alt-pop. And, yep, I get it, you're gay. DNF.
2.5 stars. This album was...fine? I didn't really appreciate all the falsetto singing. The electronic composition of the songs sounds dated, like it's either from the 90s or even the 70s. Maybe it sounded better in 2004. "Mary," and "Lovers in the Backseat" sounded pretty good. I'm not super sure what they're talking about in the song "Tits on the Radio" but it sounded pretty eh.
I’ve always kind of liked the version of Comfortably Numb.
I have been aware of this band and this album ever since it came out but have never listened to it. It's a bit too heavy on the dance and glam for me, but a fun album nonetheless.
kinda boring
A mix of somewhat tolerable, quite poor and downright horrendous disco tracks make for an album that is most certainly not for me. Starting off fairly well with Laura, we quickly spiral downwards with the horrendous dance cover of Comfortably Numb, plunging further into the depths with the awful combination of Tits On The Radio and Filthy/Gorgeous. No thanks.
Up until the comfortably numb cover I was thinking about how much I loved the energy of the record. After that my day was ruined. One of the most disrespectful covers I've heard in a long time and it makes me amazed that they could even consider including it on this record. Everything after that made me feel like this was bargain brand Jamiroqaui. Tits on the radio is certainly a song that exists.
Every time Laura starts I think it's gonna be 9-5 by Dolly. Take Your Mama is George Michael's Freedom! 90. Comfortably Numb doesn't sound anything like Pink Floyd, but definitely has some BeeGees. Mary is a late 70's Elton John B-side. Not to say they are bad songs. (Lovers in the Backseat is though). Tits on the Radio is kinda funny and branching into an original sound, and Filthy/Gorgeous fully realizes a runway fabulous electro pop sound. Then Music is the Victim and Better Luck Next Time are piano-led bar rock bops. Then closes with electro pop and a soft ballad (Return to Oz). Overall a somewhat schizophrenic album that vacillates between really fun and solid but middle of the road songs.
“cause you can’t see tits on the radio” almost got this an added star. fun could i write poetry to this? n
Wow... is thing all over the place or what? It never seems to stick with a single genre for any length of time, even going so far as to add odd elements in the middle of a song. They certainly aren't shy about signaling their influences or occasionally just straight-up copying them. As a whole, it's a fine, fun Dance-Pop album. But, did we really need a Bee-Gees-style Disco cover of "Comfortably Numb"? Yeah... I didn't think so, either.
Meh
A couple of good pop hits. That’s it.
Pink Floyd what have they done to you...
Funkypop with too much disco and too little rock. Very different songs but a unifying theme is missing to form an album.
While I did enjoy the cheeky nature of this and the I felt the songs were well put together, modern disco is not something I would want to hear. Some of these songs are good. The opening track Laura is actually rather good. But in the end, I was just sort of "meh" through the whole thing.