Scissor Sisters [PA] by Scissor Sisters

Pros: Nine outstanding, hip, swaggering, and high-energy disco-pop-rock-R&B tracks.
Cons: Two "blah" songs. If you never liked disco way down deep, you're not gonna now.

If somebody had told me a year ago that a disco-pop band from New York could successfully cover Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb, I would have hysterically laughed. Pink Floyd is one of those bands that I have never heard properly covered. ...

Pros: self-indulgent glitz and glam
Cons: if you need your music to take itself seriously, look elsewhere

There was time once when Elton John was cool, believe it or not. He wasn't always a low-key, sweet, adult contemporary artist that performs well, but doesn't elicit any sort of "rockin' out" behavior in his listeners. There's no shame in liking him, ...

Pros: A breath of fresh air, fun pop tunes with the occasional melodramatic ballad.
Cons: Album loses a bit of steam towards the end.

If it ain't gonna make you think or make you fall in love, then at the very least music should be fun. Even the most serious of music lovers has to have a soft spot for well constructed music that plain and simple-makes you feel good. There seems to have ...

Pros: The Melodies, the band's exuberent personality.
Cons: Is america ready for a band with already "out" Gay members?

Every so often a band comes along, seemingly out of nowhere, to grab the listener by the throat and not let go. Mixing equal parts of 90s pop, disco, Elton John and some Bowie for good measure, the Scissor Sisters arrive to the ...

Pros: If you're need of a disco fix, here it is.
Cons: I thought disco was dead.

Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Universal Records 2 out of 6 Hmmm… how to describe the Scissor Sisters self-titled debut without making them so unappealing that there is no reason to read the rest of the review? Think Elton John and Billy Joel like ...

Pros: Great songs; cool band members; fresh lyrics; danceable; funky; hip
Cons: None

While the "Scissor Sisters" are a force to reckoned with in the U.K., sadly, they are not terribly well known here in the U.S. Fortunately, that is changing as more and more people are becoming aware of the "Sisters", and, like them or hate them, many ...