Ta-Dah

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Ta-Dah
Ta-Dah cover
Studio album by Scissor Sisters
Released September 15, 2006 (2006-09-15)
Recorded May 2005–2006
Genre Glam rock
Alternative
Pop
Length 47:24
Label Polydor Records (UK)
Universal Records (US)
Producer Scissor Sisters
Professional reviews
Scissor Sisters chronology
Remixed!
(2004)		 Ta-Dah
(2006)		 Live At The O2
(2007)

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 September 13, 2006. The album's release in the UK, on September 18, 2006 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 and managed to chart at #29. The next single that was released was "Kiss You Off" on May 28, the video for which can be seen in the media section of the band's website. This was the poorest charting of the singles of Ta-Dah, only being able to reach #43. This has, so far, been the lowest charting UK single on initial release. "I Can't Decide" charted at #64 on downloads alone, on the strength of being used in the Doctor Who episode "Last of the Time Lords".

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/Stumph) – 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/Wentz/Stumph) – 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] Release dates

Flag of the United KingdomSeptember 18, 2006
Flag of the United StatesSeptember 26, 2006

[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
Norwegian Album Chart 2
Swedish Albums Chart 3
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[2] 50,000+
U.K BPI 4x Platinum 1,200,000+
Germany IFPI Gold 100,000+
Sweden IFPI Gold 40,000
Preceded by
FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
September 25, 2006		 Succeeded by
I'm Not Dead by Pink

[edit] Miscellanea

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  • 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, "The 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[3]
  • The song "Everybody Wants the Same Thing" was first performed live at the London Live 8 on July 2nd, 2005. They were the only band to perform a new, unrecorded song at Live 8.

The album's lead single, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" was recently used in the opening scene of the new ABC drama, Private Practice (the Grey's Anatomy spinoff), wherein the show's main character, Addison Montgomery, dances to it in the nude, after taking a shower.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ CAPIF ::: Representando a la Industra Argentina de la Música :::
  2. ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for February 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
  3. ^ 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

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