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| Studio album by Scissor Sisters | |||||
| Released | September 15, 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Glam rock Alternative Pop |
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| Length | 47:24 | ||||
| Label | Polydor Records (UK) Universal Records (US) |
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| Producer | Scissor Sisters | ||||
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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, 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, 10 positions lower than the previous single. 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".
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Track listing
- "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 4:48
- "She's My Man" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 5:31
- "I Can't Decide" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 2:46
- "Lights" (Hoffman/Sellards/Alomar) – 3:35
- "Land of a Thousand Words" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 3:50
- "Intermission" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 2:37
- "Kiss You Off" (Hoffman/Sellards/Lynch) – 5:02
- "Ooh" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen) – 3:29
- "Paul McCartney" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen/Alomar) – 3:44
- "The Other Side" (Hoffman/Sellards/Garden) – 4:22
- "Might Tell You Tonight" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 3:20
- "Everybody Wants the Same Thing" (Hoffman/Sellards/Seacor/Leschen/Lynch) – 4:22
- "Transistor" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:51 (UK Bonus Track)
Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc
- "Hair Baby" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen/Alomar) – 4:06
- "Contact High (Demo Version)" (Hoffman/Sellards/Lynch) – 3:37
- "Almost Sorry" (Hoffman/Sellards/Williams) – 3:15
- "Transistor" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:51
- "Making Ladies" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:39
- "I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Paper Faces Remix)" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 6:34
Release dates
September 18, 2006
September 26, 2006
Charts
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| 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 |
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 song "I Can't Decide" was featured in the Doctor Who episode "Last of the Time Lords", specifically referred to as "Track Three".
- "Ooh" can be heard in the background of the Ugly Betty episode "I'm Coming Out", during the Fashion Week scenes.
- Anderson Cooper, host of Anderson Cooper 360, is noted in the acknowledgment section of the album.
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.
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?CodOp=ESCM&CO=6
- ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for February 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ 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
External links
- Official Site
- www.idontfeellikedancin.com — Scissor Sisters Unofficial Community & Fansite
- Underground Illusion - The Ultimate Scissor Sisters Database
| Scissor Sisters |
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| 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" · "Kiss You Off" |
| DVDs: We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You · Hurrah! A Year of Ta-Dah |
