Ta-Dah!

Seemingly inspired by the Bee Gees, Elton John and the gay clubs of their home city, the hip New York City, New York, USA-based Scissor Sisters inadvertently (or otherwise) question accepted definitions of cool. Seemingly without irony or contrariness, band members Paddy Boom aka Patrick Seacor (drums), Babydaddy (multi-instruments), Jake Shears aka Jason Sellards (vocals), Ana Matronic aka Ana Lynch (vocals) and Del Marquis aka Derek Gruen (guitar) have name checked artists such as Billy Joel, Hall And Oates and Steely Dan, and the quintet's second single was, perhaps polemically, a makeover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". The cover version rejected the rock star solipsism of the original in favour of remodelling the song as a hymn to hedonism that more readily reminded of Frankie Goes To Hollywood than the track's rock icon songwriters. In a piece of effective music satire, the Scissor Sisters simultaneously unearthed the pop song in the epic Pink Floyd version and revealed the melancholy inherent in disco.