Ta-Dah

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Ta-Dah
Ta-Dah cover
Studio album by Scissor Sisters
Released 15 September 2006
Recorded May 2005-2006
Genre Glam rock, Alternative, Rock, Pop
Length 47:24
Label Polydor Records (UK)
Universal Records (US)
Producer(s) Scissor Sisters
Professional reviews
Scissor Sisters chronology
Remixed!
(2004)		 Ta-Dah
(2006)


Ta-Dah is the second studio album by American 5-piece band Scissor Sisters, released in September 2006. It was leaked in its entirety onto filesharing networks on Wednesday, September 13, 2006. The album's release in the UK was preceded by the release of the new single, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'". The song reached #1 on both the UK Singles and Download charts in September 2006 (see 2006 in British music). This follow up to their debut featured collaborations with Elton John, Carlos Alomar and Paul Williams. The album entered the Irish Albums Chart at #1 on 21 September, followed three days later by a #1 entry in the UK charts. The album had a respectable debut on the Billboard Charts in the U.S., coming in at #19 and selling 41,992 units in its first week.

According to the cover of the album, "Land of a Thousand Words" will be the second single from the album.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 4:48
  2. "She's My Man" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 5:31
  3. "I Can't Decide" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 2:46
  4. "Lights" (Hoffman/Sellards/Alomar) – 3:35
  5. "Land of A Thousand Words" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 3:50
  6. "Intermission" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 2:37
  7. "Kiss You Off" (Hoffman/Sellards/Lynch) – 5:02
  8. "Ooh" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen) – 3:29
  9. "Paul McCartney" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen/Alomar) – 3:44
  10. "The Other Side" (Hoffman/Sellards/Garden) – 4:22
  11. "Might Tell You Tonight" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 3:20
  12. "Everybody Wants the Same Thing" (Hoffman/Sellards/Seacor/Leschen/Lynch) – 4:22
  13. "Transistor"(Hoffman/Sellards) - 4:51 (UK Bonus Track)

[edit] Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc

  1. "Hair Baby" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen/Alomar) – 4:06
  2. "Contact High (Demo Version)" (Hoffman/Sellards/Lynch) – 3:37
  3. "Almost Sorry" (Hoffman/Sellards/Williams) – 3:15
  4. "Transistor" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:51
  5. "Making Ladies" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:39
  6. "I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Paper Faces Remix)" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 6:34

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart 1
Ireland Albums Chart 1
UK Albums Chart 1
Finland Albums Chart 14
New Zealand Albums Chart 11
U.S. Billboard 200 19
U.S. Top Electronic Albums 1
German Top 100 6
Chart Certification Sales
Australia ARIA Platinum 70,000+
U.K BPI 2x Platinum 600,000+

[edit] Trajectories

United World Chart
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Position
2
5
6
7
6
14
Sales
379.000
259.000
183.000
141.000
117.000
106.000
91.000
Total
379.000
638.000
821.000
962.000
1.079.000
1.185.000
1.276.000
Billboard 200
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Position
19
58
78
111
137
179
Sales
41,992
16,919
11,852
8,587
6,939
5,428
Total
42,078
58,997
70,849
79,436
86,375
91,803
UK Albums Chart
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Position
1
1
3
2
2
6
8
Sales
288,167

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The track "The Other Side" contains a quotation closely paraphrasing a line from the poem "Song of Myself" by the nineteenth-century homosexual poet, Walt Whitman:

Scissor Sisters: "Everything that comes to me as good belongs to you."
Walt Whitman: "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

  • The song, “Other Side” is partially based on "In the Machine", the first third of the novel 'Specimen Days', by American novelist Michael Cunningham, famous for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours (later made into an Academy Award-winning film starring Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf). 'Specimen Days' is inspired by the writings of Walt Whitman in much the same way 'The Hours' was inspired by Virginia Woolf. Michael Cunningham is one of Jake Shears' favorite writers and gave Shears an advance copy of 'Specimen Days'. Shears wrote "Other Side" soon after reading it[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Shapiro, Gregg, Cuts Like a Knife: An Interview with Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters, After Elton.com, 2006: http://afterelton.com/people/2006/9/shears3.html

[edit] External Links

v • d • e
Scissor Sisters

Band members
Jake Shears • Babydaddy • Ana Matronic • Del Marquis • Paddy Boom
Singles
Laura • Comfortably Numb • Take Your Mama • Mary • Filthy/Gorgeous • I Don't Feel Like Dancin' • Land of a Thousand Words
Albums
The Demo Album • Scissor Sisters • Remixed! • Ta-Dah
DVDs
We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You
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