Ta-Dah

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Ta-Dah
Ta-Dah cover
Studio album by Scissor Sisters
Released September 15, 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 September 21, followed three days later by a #1 entry in the UK Albums Chart. The album had a respectable debut on the Billboard 200 in the US, coming in at #19 and selling 41,992 units in its first week.

"Land of a Thousand Words" was released as the second single from the album, peaking at #19 in the UK. She's My Man was the third single released in early March 2007. Further single announcements have not been made officially. Speculation surrounds Lights and Kiss You Off as a fourth single and Ooh as a fifth single, despite no band-related evidence suggesting this (bar alleged comments by Ana Matronic telling a fan that Kiss You Off would be a single). Mr. Oizo has produced a remix of "Kiss You Off". As of 21st March 2007 no single announcements have been made.

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
Argentinian CAPIF 7[1]
Australian Albums Chart 1
Colombian Albums Chart 23
Finland Albums Chart 14
German Top 100 6
Ireland Albums Chart 1
Italian Album Chart 7
New Zealand Albums Chart 11
U.S. Billboard 200 19
U.S. Top Electronic Albums 1
UK Albums Chart 1
Chart Certification Sales
Australia ARIA Platinum 70,000+
Canada CRIA Gold 50,000+
U.K BPI 3x Platinum 1,080,000+

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The track "The Other Side" contains a quotation closely paraphrasing a line from the poem "Song of Myself" by 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[2]
  • The song “Everybody Wants The Same Thing” was first performed live at the London Live 8 on July 2nd 2005.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?CodOp=ESCM&CO=6
  2. ^ 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

Scissor Sisters
Jake Shears · Babydaddy · Ana Matronic · Del Marquis · Paddy Boom
Discography
Albums: The Demo Album · Scissor Sisters · Remixed! · Ta-Dah
Singles: "Electrobix" · "Laura" · "Comfortably Numb" · "Take Your Mama" · "Mary" · "Filthy/Gorgeous" · "I Don't Feel like Dancin'" · "Land of a Thousand Words" · "She's My Man"
DVDs: We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You
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