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[edit] Genres

They're currently listed as rock, pop and alternative, which seems a bit vague. I think glam rock will suffice, so I'm deleting the others. 195.195.166.31 17:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I decided to include the genre of Electroclash, due to the article regarding Larry Tee and a reference within the documentary "We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You" where they discuss having electroclash origins. Should one site sources even on the genre table? Logan 20:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't think these guys are Glam Rock, even though they're influenced by Queen and David Bowie... they don't sound like T. Rex or Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie at all. They do have the visuals, but not the music... They're more like Pop or Pop Rock, but with a HUGE dance sound. I'd classify them as Pop/Pop rock/Dance... but definitely NOT as Glam Rock Phibrizoq 08:12, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remixed!

It's a wonder why there's no mention of 'Remixed!', there remix album. It's a bit difficult to find but some good record stores might have it. 24 of August 2006. P.S. What's Crystal Meth abuse?

Crystal Meth is a drug. --62.64.227.167 10:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lesbian only position?

I'm curious as to the choice to identify 'scissor sisters' as being a _lesbian_ sex position. Should this not be a sexual position for women who have sex with women (i.e. also including bisexual, transsexual, questioning, etcetera)? ~KurtTO 05/08/06

Well, it is still a sex position that involves two females. Regardless of the sexuality of the woman it is still a lesbian sex position. Heck, both women could be straight and still have sex in that position; it'd still be classed as a lesbian sex position. Calling it a lesbian position does not mean that only lesbians perform it, it simply means it's a position which requires two females. Kenny-t 23:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
This is my exact issue: that the definition of _lesbian_ is misunderstood. According to wikipedia's article, "a lesbian is a female who is _exclusively_ emotionally, sexually, romantically and/or aesthetically attracted to other females" This is a sexual position between two women, regardless of orientation. I am making an edit. Kurtto 18:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, but it's so much easier just to say "lesbian" than "lesbian/bisexual/transvestite". A lesbian sex position position is known as a position that requires 2 females. It's obvious that a bisexual woman can still perform it on another woman so adding "bisexual" is redundant. Kenny-t 21:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
The issue should not be whether or not it is 'easier' to incorrectly describe the ineraction as a lesbian one. 'Lesbian' and 'gay' are identity labels that people choose for themselves; A 'homosexual interaction' only implies that the participants are of the same sex. This point is one of semantics, but is one of accuracy none the less. It is no different than the movement in the HIV/AIDS education community to move from describing 'gay men' as a higher risk category to 'men who have sex with men' (i.e. to detur the myth that it is somehow less dangerous for two self-identified straight men to have unprotected sex with one another).Kurtto 01:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
The point is in this context lesbian simply refers the the fact that both participants are female. It's a common usage of the word. Two bisexual women can engage in lesbian sex.
I agree, referring to it as a lesbian position can be confusing, since to refer to a sex act with a orientation modifier is sometimes inaccurate (e.g. refering to all forms of anal sex as "gay sex").

Logan 20:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I must say, this is rather heavy. What on earth should we call it, if not a lesbian position? A "possible homosexual position"? I hardly think we need to worry about this one. Liamoliver 22:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pink Floyd cover

I'm pretty certain that it's fair to say that most Pink Floyd fans are not appreciative of the Scissor Sister's violent attack on Comfortably Numb. It's not attacking them to admit this - it happens to be true. Many PF fans are/were irritated.

Violent attack on Pink Floyd? I love Pink Floyd to death, but perhaps you should be concerning yourself more with Eric Prydz's remix of Another Brick in the Wall Part II, Proper Education. Now he must die. But Pink Floyd have said themselves that they like the Scissor Sisters' cover. How ironic that they are amongst the few who don't find it horribly offensive. Liamoliver 22:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Regardless - the fact that some fans of another band happen to dislike them because of a cover they did is hardly of relevence here.

Err, its not 'loosely based'. Its a DIRECT COVER of Comfortably Numb.<npov>And it takes a crap, whingy moaning song that sounds like an old woman is singing it and turns it into a halway decent dance track</npov><opinion>with a pretty good intro</opinion>

Either way, its a COVER. Same lyrics. Kiand 21:32, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nick Mason commented in an interview that he loves SS's version of Comfortably Numb, and prefers such new interpretations over copies that "reapeat my mistakes".

It's a trivial thing to say, but it's not often I have a microphone in my hand; "Laura" was all over Radio One in the summer of 2004. It's almost impossible to express this in the article, which can only note that it peaked at number 12, but "Laura" was one of those songs which was inescapable, like the New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" a few years previously. Who is Mandy Perkins? -Ashley Pomeroy 17:28, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Mandy Perkins is no one, apparently.

oh man, i love pink floyd. "a cover of comfortably numb?", i said to myself, "it's got to be good"... oh, how ignorant i was. needless to say, i knew the song wasn't for me when i was trying to contain the vomit. this cover is the most disgusting thing i've ever heard and them saying they were inspired by pink floyd is an insult! pink floyd + disco = hell on earth (mainly because disco = hell on earth, kinda like 1+infinity = infinity) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.100.78.140 (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK 'bias'

I'm from the UK and love reading UK-based articles. However, this does seem a bit British for an American group, no?

It's probably because they've been a bigger hit in the UK (and to some extent Australia) than they have been in the US itself. --Robert Merkel 11:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

well, in the article there's a note on their debut being the 2004 best-selling UK album - the scissor sisters were actively touring all over europe & the US, though. --IceflamePhoenix 05:33, 18 June 2006 (UTC)--84.12.23.32 05:33, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


TAKE YOUR MOMMA OUT = LITTLE JEANNIE? I don't see how "Take your momma out" sounds at all like "little Jeannie" Really, I'm listening to them both and I don't see it. Joe

I do. =) --IceflamePhoenix 19:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

As this is an encyclopedia and not a collection of fan sites, the purpose of external links is to provide further information for the reader of the article, which is not the case when it comes to message boards or fan sites that have not been updated in months. Therefore, I removed the following three links (again):

Just that someone might think these are *notable* doesn't mean they're relevant. Although it's a fansite, I did not remove wass.tk from the link list because it seemed to me that this one actually does provide some further information, but the ones above do not. If one of these is even linked from the official site (which is included here), what's the matter? And as for StudioSpooky, which "is site of album artist" (according to the edit summary): if the uninformed reader using wp as a source of information about Scissor Sisters really needs to know something about it, it should be mentioned in the article (incl. a link to the respective wp article, if it derserves one). --a.bit 11:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

  • StudioSpooky is indeed mentioned in the text and linked to Wikipedia article.
  • wass.tk is an incredibly detailed site for the scissor sisters, it's currently being reincarnated as idontfeellikedancing.com - both sites are currently offline, as they're transferring from one to the other. --IceflamePhoenix 05:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just editing in my opinion that they are too many links and that there isn't enough referencing (a la <ref>[http://link ...]</ref>; so, could someone consider cleaning up the article? I completely agree with a.bit; it's not a collection of fansites. Qwerty (talk) 11:32, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gay Icons

As an editor suggested in their edit summary. Quite how does one prove they are "gay icons"? Are sources such as these [1][2] [3] [4] etc, sufficient? Rockpocket 21:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Del Marquis

I have just found that the information for this band member, which formed several paragraphs, has been deleted and the page turned into a redirect to this one. Why was this done, when was this done, and why was none of the deleted material merged into this page?

Not sure why that happened, but if there was a lot of info about any one member or something not specific to the band, someone may have edited it out. This should be an article about just the band. More detailed individual biographical information about each member can go in their own articles. I see there is an article for Del Marquis out there. Thanks! NickBurns 19:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

  • You slightly misunderstood, I meant that the Del Marquis page itself had its information deleted and the page was turned into a redirect to this one, after someone added unverifiable information. Rather than removing only this information, the next editor of the page removed the whole page. After asking for time to source the relevant information there twice (on a different ISP), and being ignored twice, I think I have finally got it back to encyclopedic form. 86.9.26.40 18:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mary

"Mary, the inspiration for the Scissor Sisters song "Mary", died of a brain aneurysm in mid April, 2006. The band was said to be incredibly distraught."

This seems to have been indiscriminately tagged to the bottom of the page. There is no citation or context to the statement.


Well any mention of it seems to be deleted now. I didn't think it was irrelevant, I just thought it didn't seem to sit well where it was. (Macca7174)

Macca7174: There is a reference to it. It is under "Content of music", at the end of paragraph one. The reference is there, along with the link (shown as [2]) to the posting on the message board that's listed above. I just put the link there so it was properly cited. NickBurns 21:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cut and Paste

Looks like the website of "video hits" (a music film clip show on the Australian commercial television station "TEN") likes to use your text without referencing. http://www.videohits.com.au/artist.php?artist_id=8237

[edit] Discgraphy Incomplete

I've been working on The Demo Album (Scissor Sisters) - can someone link it up to this article? i don't know how. plus, we need info on the remixed album! --IceflamePhoenix 07:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tildes

Hi folks, please remember if you comment on the Talk Page here to add your name and the date and time of your comment by placing four "tildes" after your comment. The tildes is this character ~ and can be found on the key just to the left of the 1 key above the letters on your keyboard. There are lots of comments on here but many do not have a time/date listed. Thanks! NickBurns 19:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Also, further to that, remember if someone hasn't signed their name, you can go back and use the {{unsigned}} template to add their names and the date from the edit diffs. So if I didn't sign my post, and it was attributed to being added at 19:59, 18 June 2006, then you would use {{unsigned|Vanderdecken|19:59, 18 June 2006}} to give: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanderdecken (talk • contribs) 19:59, 18 June 2006. Also, the tilde (~) is only left of the 1 and above Tab for people with US keyboards - don't forget us Brits! For those with a UK/International keyboard layout, the tilde (~) is above the right shift, just between @ and the Return (or Enter) key. You have to use shift to place it as well, as it is the shifted-alternate character of hash (#). That is all. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 16:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to Pink Floyd Version of Comfortably Numb

I am curious as to why the link from the discography links to a page on the Pink Floyd version of the track Comfortably Numb - this seems out of place, as that is not the single released by this band, even if the one was a cover of the other. Surely the SS's version of the single should be the page linked to? And if one doesn't exist, someone with the single could possibly start an article off so that we can encourage other people to add to it. John Coxon 22:39, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pulled from shelves. Kind of.

Just a bit of a tidbit here, but Scissor Sisters have had their albums pulled from the shelves from all Transworld music stores (FYE, Strawberries, etc) after Shears said in public and in interviews that FYE had ridiculous prices. Looks like they won't be selling any better in the US now.

[edit] Origin of "Scissor Sisters" name

The group is named after a sex position between two women. Is there actually any proof of this? I can't find any evidence that "scissor sisters" existed as a sexual term before the band was formed, so it's possible the band just created the term themselves. 172.161.214.87 16:57, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure Ana mentions it on one of the documentaries on "We Are Scissor Sisters...". Kenny-t 22:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Having just watched the DVD - she does indeed. Odedee 05:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
    • I can't find any evidence of the term from before the band existed either. I actually came here hoping to find some verification of the official story. I wouldn't be surprised if the band made up the name and then created a story to explain it... unless anyone can cite the name's existence before the band? 92.1.2.237 (talk) 19:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scissor Sisters recent news

I heard a sound byte regarding the Scissor Sisters having there album removed from sale (in America) due to an incedent, but i am unsure of this, does any one have any news? SkippyUK 11:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The album was not removed from sale in the US, but rather from FYE chain stores after members of the band criticized the chain.THE evil fluffyface 20:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uncanny resemblance?

Anyone else noticed that the intro to "I don't feel like Dancin'" is uncannily similar to the Bellamy Brothers' "Let Your Love Flow"?

I didn't notice the "I don't feel like dancin'" intro, but I did notice that during "the land of a thousand words" video two of the names are Cathy Curtis and Barbara Jackson. Those names appear on one of their songs called "Making Ladies".

[edit] "Scissor sister" murderers?

Is it worth mentioning the "Scissor Sisters", the Dublin murderers who dismembered Farah Noor? It's just their tabloid name, but I know Jake Shears alluded to them onstage. Can't seem to find the quote...

[edit] Personal reflections

I foolishly thought that the 2006 hit "I don't feel like dancing" had Shakespeares sister's Siobhan Fahey in it! I dig her individualism. Teemu Ruskeepää 11:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oh No. Oh no no no.

The Scissor Sisters' little shindig on Passions is AWFUL check this out: http://www.prefixmag.com/blog/prefix/2007/02/09/scissor-sisters-passions drumguy8800 C T 10:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV, anyone?

Statements like "they are certainly one of the most popular and most successful groups of the 21st century in Europe" strike me as pretty opinionated. I don't really know how to flag the article though. ^_^; - User:theafroguy

Words such as successful and popular are not POV. They just mean that the band is generally liked and that has received a lot of income; they do not express opinions.--Orthologist 16:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I removed that. The problem is the sentence as a whole but words like "certainly". The part with "one of the most successful" is not encyclopedic either although it can be found in many band's pages (One of the ten/fifty/anything most successful" or anything of that kind would be relevant). "The 21st century" is also inappropriate since it stands for the whole century. Even something like "the decade" would be too long.
Without these three parts there's nothing much left. Feel free to rewrite something ! KungFuMonkey 17:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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