Scissor Sisters or The Darkness?

[emad]

My 16yr old says neither are any good but wants tickets to see them play sometime soon. Either of them worth the airfare???

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. The Darkness

I don't know the other band, but The Darkness is just a fun, fun band.

[T_i_B]

2. Apparently...

...they are considering naming streets after them in Lowestoft, where they come from. :eyes:

The Darkness are OK as long as you do not under any circumstances take them seriously. I'd rather listen the original 80's hair rock bands if I'm going to listen to that sort of stuff though personally.

[DS1]

I would go see 'The B52s' before seeing 'The Darkness'

and I ~~hate~~ The B52s.

[DS1]

3. I would go see 'The B52s' before seeing 'The Darkness'

and I ~~hate~~ The B52s.

edit: dupe, now in Christmasy color scheme

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. I'd go and see Phil Collins, Chris de Burgh and Michael Bolton

before I'd see The Dorkness.

[Whitacre D_WI]

5. Well, seeing as you ARE Chris De Burgh...

...I can't see how that's such a big deal.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Will you be my Lady in Red, Whitacre? Will you? Pretty please?

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. There's nobody else.

It's just you and me.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Ass dancing.

Cheek to cheek.

[Aristus]

15. Hey, no dissing on Chris De Burgh, okay.

That's just not allowed anywhere I can see it. 'Kay? :-)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Hmmm? Are you Chris De Burgh, perchance?

[Whitacre D_WI]

17. Chris De Burgh...

...isn't he the lead singer from Stone Roses?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. No, he's the lead singer in that band you like.

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Klaatu?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

No, that one that really sucks that only stupid people like.

That one. You love them.

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. Oh, yeah!

They SUCK!

[Aristus]

22. No, Chris De Burgh is a solo performer.

If you only know him through "The Lady In Red", then you don't really know his music.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. So, joking aside, you actually are a fan of his?

[Aristus]

24. Yeah, but I'm not going to go into screaming hissies if you aren't.

I've been a fan since 1982. If you don't like him, well, vive la difference!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Not at all, I've never encountered one of his fans.

I salute your fan-ness.

[Aristus]

26. Thanks.

I'm a huge fan of Marvin, BTW.

"I'm not boring you at all, am I? Pardon me for breathing, which I don't do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh GOD! I'm so depressed!" :-)

[Whitacre D_WI]

27. I am a fan of that guy who wears sweaters on PBS.

You know, the Irish tenor version of Liberace that all the grannies wanna shag and have no idea that he's gay.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. Daniel O'Donnell. The Irish Elvis.

If Elvis was Irish, sweater-wearing, and dull.

[Whitacre D_WI]

29. I prefer to think of him as the Irish Al Hedges.

That is, if Al Hedges were appealing to millions of old women worldwide.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. You wish.

Millions of sex-crazed grannies at your beck and call. Particularly your beck.

[Whitacre D_WI]

32. Get the jaws of life, Byron.

I'm goin' in.

[LTR]

30. The Irish Pat Boone?

The sweater thing.

Or the Irish Tom Jones.

The old lady thing.

[DS1]

6. I'd go see Nina Hagen, Michael Flatly, and Boy George

before seeing The Darkness.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. I'd go see Hermann Goering, Wang Chung and Kenny G

before I'd go and see Nina Hagen, Michael Flatly, and Boy George before seeing The Darkness.

[DS1]

9. I'd protest on Fred Phelps's side, fellate George Wendt, and see Wham!

before going to see 'The Darkness'.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. I'd cut off my own head and use it as a football

disembowel myself, eat my own innards (after restitching my head back on without anaesthetic), crawl through six thousand miles of razor wire, stab hot needles into my eyes repeatedly, discuss modernist philosophy with Jessica Simpson and appear on Days of Our Lives in a recurring bit-part as Victor's long lost evil son before seeing The Darkness.

[DS1]

13. I'd skin myself and wrap my flesh around the front left tire of a NY Taxi

while boiling the meat off my fingers in a pot of seawater, all the while beating my bloody forehead against the oven fan, being careful to catch whatever brain matter falls out of my recently dremel-tooled skull and sautee it amoung torn pieces of Ann Coulter's latest book, all the while dancing a little Irish jig with my feet in a kiln turned on its side, before seeing 'The Darkness'.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. I'd see The Darkness.

Before seeing The Darkness.

[tigereye]

34. sheesh that sounds like a lot... of pain

Although I particularly like to contemplate the modernist philosophy discussion with Jessica.

Well, I think they look like silly fun. At least the videos do. Not that I would see them. Reminds me of the Zeppelin days with a dash of Spinal Tap. It's all Morrisey's fault, you know.

[Whitacre D_WI]

35. Foolish children...

Everyone knows Jessica Simpson is a neo-Empiricist. :eyes:

[tigereye]

36. I knew you would have the answer

Berkeley... Ah the Rationalists and the Empiricists. A course I did not do well in.

[Whitacre D_WI]

37. You were not high enough.

Empiricism is far more entertaining if you have reason to doubt your experiences.

[tigereye]

38. there you go

good "rationalization." Actually I remember that Berkeley was the only one who made sense and appeared to have a sense of humor.?! I was doubting many things in those days, primarily my ability to pass the course. Can't remember if I just bailed or got a C. Shudder. Much preferred the Existentialism course.

[Whitacre D_WI]

39. Oh, THAT Berkeley!

I thought you meant you WENT to Berkeley.

Yes, I never quite liked him. I was more of a Hume man, myself. And dollars to donuts says that Hume could drink Berkeley under the table.

[tigereye]

40. well we all know how important that is

I thought Berkeley seemed less stuffy. Don't know why I thought that.
BTW I just wish I HAD gone to Berkeley. I do know a guy who got his law degree there, though.

[Whitacre D_WI]

20. The Darkness is the best band to ever come out of the U.K.

Of course, that's not saying much....

[fameless]

33. scissor sisters, hands down.

[emad]

41. Thanx! Now apparently they're coming to play a London gig

in May, somewhere in Brixton, so no point in getting blackmailed for the airfare to the US...