Scissor Sisters (album)
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| Studio album by Scissor Sisters | |||||
| Released | February 2, 2004 (UK) July 27, 2004 (U.S.) |
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| Recorded | 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 50:47 | ||||
| Label | Polydor (UK) Universal Records B0002772-02 (U.S.) |
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| Producer | Scissor Sisters | ||||
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Scissor Sisters is the debut studio album by American 5-piece band Scissor Sisters, first released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). It was released by Polydor in the UK. It reached number 1 on the UK and Irish album charts, and was the best-selling album in the UK for the year 2004. Since its release it has gone 7x Platinum in the UK selling over 2,500,000 copies in the UK alone. In Ireland it has been certified a close 5x Platinum. The album was not as successful in their native USA, peaking at #102 on the Billboard 200. The album has sold 3,300,000 copies worldwide,[1] and is listed as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in the book of the same name, edited by Robert Dimery.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Laura" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 3:36
- "Take Your Mama" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 4:31
- "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd cover) (Gilmour, Waters) – 4:25
- "Mary" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 4:43
- "Lovers in the Backseat" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 3:15
- "Tits on the Radio" (Hoffman, Lynch, Sellards) – 3:16
- "Filthy/Gorgeous" (Hoffman, Lynch, Sellards) – 3:46
- "Music Is the Victim" (Gruen, Hoffman, Sellards) – 2:57
- "Better Luck" (Gruen, Hoffman, Sellards) – 3:08
- "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 4:42
- "Return to Oz" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 4:34
[edit] Bonus tracks
All bonus tracks appear on the United Kingdom edition of Scissor Sisters.
- "A Message from Ms. Matronic" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 0:31
- "The Skins" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 2:55
- "Get It Get It" (Hoffman, Sellards) – 3:47
[edit] Alternate versions
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Certainly two songs — "Laura" & "Lovers in the Backseat" — have two versions. With regard to "Lovers in the Backseat", the earlier version is 3:36 in length and does not feature extra drums and cymbal crash, which follows the line "on the radio" at the end of the first chorus and "I'll just watch the show" in the second and third chorus. The new version also ends with Jake singing "on the radio" in a vocoder effect. The earlier version simply ends rather abruptly. An edit of Filthy/Gorgeous used on the band's Myspace omits a monologue by Ana Matronic towards the end of the song.
The newer mix of "Laura" has a saxophone part after 02:50 right through to the end.
Why these two songs have been remix/reworked remains unclear. Possible they were the first songs finished for the album and have been revisited to pull them up to the standard of the rest.
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