Also, they have the Peanuts dance down pat. That counts for something. 
Not positive, but I think that there’s a drag aspect here that isn’t being taken into account…
Please feel free to correct me if I’ve got that wrong, because I thought that was part of the joke.
We’ve had the Scissor Sisters for a bit longer here in the UK, and I’ve seen many Floyd fans go through these stages. First disbelief, then denial; then they actually hear the song. They hate it for a week or so - “how could anyone do this?”, they demand. Then they go quiet for a bit, and when pushed admit that it’s “not that bad”. And eventually they see the light, and acknowledge that it’s fucking great.
Go on, admit it. You love it really.
(Although for the die-hard refuseniks amongst you, I’ll offer hope; the album isn’t exactly variety central, so I’m not sure this is a band for the ages…)
OK, I’m a raving Floyd fan and have worshipped the band since before some of you were born, and I loved this version! Sure, at first I thought, “What the. . . ? Is that Comfortably Numb. Holy . . . . , it is, those insane queens are wrecking a classic! Hang on, it’s actually good. OK, I really like the irreverence of what they’re doing.”
Whatever you may think of the orchestraion of the song, you have to admit that band is tight. Although I do think that a full CD of queeny falsetto could be thoroughly annoying, the actual musicians, particularly the lead guitar, were awesome.
My theory on cover songs is that they should NOT sound anything like the original. Change speeds, instrumentation, genres, play it for laughs…make it different. Make it your own. A faithful cover makes you a top 40 band. Who needs that??
I have not heard the work in question. I like the original song. The cover, as described, sounds interesting.
The Syd Barret days are so over-rated. Pink Floyd’s best albums really were when he was gone, when they mitigated the pretention with an actual point and an occasional melody.
And anyone who is genuinely upset by the Scissors Sisters remake of the song needs to take a deep cleansing breath.
So was this worse than when Madonna killed American Pie?
Just saw it myself. After the first 15 seconds I was screaming “Popcorn! Popcorn!”.
Oh yeah, Prince called and, well, you know the rest.
Anybody know where there is a clip? I really do like this band, but their cover was truly the worst thing on the album. Maybe I should reconsider…
Egads, people actually watch SNL?
I quit watching them when they quit being funny. That was roughly two episodes after the last appearance of “The Land Of Gorch”.
I’m not a big SNL fan . . . well, I haven’t watched it in nigh on seven years. But, I made the effort to play the song on my music server:
My ears are bleeding. Someone pass me some gauze. STAT!
Tripler
Fuck Q-Tips. I’ll take tampons at this point.
Oh Jesus Fucking Christ on a Pike, why in the holy fuck did I go and download that. Shitfuckpiss, muthercuntpusswallow. Sonofafuckingbitch that was attrocious.
I don’t think an apopleptic fit of dismembering pique is quite sufficient. Who was that guy who wanted to “climb a tower”? Any room still left up there?
Not, THAT’S funny!
:smack:
NOW! Dammit, NOW!
Still, it IS funny.
Ha ha. Tina Fey is my golden comedy god.
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HA! Mr. Athena and I thought the same thing!
We didn’t stay up for the second song. It’s probably on the TiVo, I’ll have to check.
For anyone that missed it but wants to hear the song, the first minute of it is on the Scissor Sister’s website here: http://www.scissorsisters.com/main.php
under “Audio/Video”
and there’s about 30 seconds of the video HERE
that’s more of the chorus so you can get an idea what the song sounds like
hmm, that second one might not work without registration, but I’m sure you can get the idea from the Scissor Sisters page.
No, sadly, it works. That’s where I saw it. You get treated to people synchronized-swimming with neon jellyfish or some fucking thing. Oh, yeah, and there’s audio…I find myself wishing the Jellyfish could be lethally poisonous, and at some point the swimmers wind up drowning in painful convulsions. No such luck.