One of those songs that refuses to go away

Cheezy ripoff of Suicide... (and the corporation apparently doesn't want you to hear it).

2.5: I'd search for something better on the radio, but if there was nothing else good on, I'd flip back to it.

"Now I know I have to...*boom* *boom* RUN AWAYYY
I have to *boom* *boom* GET AWAY..." lol

Dancey, good for skating.

me n aunt naes fav:)

if i was a big giant homo this would be my shit.....

like it even better after another artist borrowed some of the special parts of this one lol

If it was the nº1 in big part of the planet, it must be because is a great song. I think there are a lot of better songs, but this is one of the firsts songs that came to my mind if I think in 80's music.

one of the best songs of the 80's..always makes you dance:)

love this one.

Love it one good 80s classic

strange but good

oh hell yeah... overplayed since it came out though so now i cant stand it

This is another good song...

Everytime I hear this I think of the movie Coneheads!

Again the beat. Not the video

does this video creep anyone else out.

Coolest song ever!

ohmigosh.
this is a good song!

YEAAHH

cool ass song i like this one better than the remake

DUN DUN

Whoo hoo!

I freakin love this song....and them

love the song but the video is just odd

oooh, great song! A master piece! =]

LOVE THIS SONG !!! the Marilyn Manson cover is pretty good too

The song is good but the video is so friggin gay...I can't watch it.

Great song

Not one of my favorites from the decade.

terrible video but song holds alot of truth in it.

Another great fun song, I know this was kinda the birth of that weak-ass lame-o music called techno, but this was done well

One more totally 80's band. Very few instruments and plenty of eye make-up. Maybe a one-hit wonder, can't recall anything else they did.

yes but i like the new verison of it.

I gotta say I like Manson's version better.

I like the new marilyn manson version better, but you can't have a remake with out the original.

Awesome song!!! It's one of my favorite songs from the 80's! I don't remember the video though..omg, it sucks!

<3

i hear it all the time and i cannot NOT sing this song! first time i saw the vid... wow i like. ;) xx den NISI

Great dance song!

loved it ...

One of my favorite '80's songs!! Don't know about the video though!!

coneheads females make it remembered in this head

In essence, this song finally went to #1 in the U.S. this year, in the form of a generous samples which make up the structure of Rhianna's "S.O.S." hit.

"S.O.S." proves that "Tainted Love" has a timeless catchiness to it, even as it waters the original down by replacing the lyrics and vocals with a less interesting ones.

One of the best covers ever. Very intoxicating. This album is pretty good also. It stood out amongst the other New Wave synth music at the time. The song Frustration is awesome!

As a general rule I would not rate any cover as five stars, but every rule has exceptions. This is one of them. The earliest version of "Tainted Love" is by soul singer Gloria Jones in the mid 1960's, but as Aretha Franklin took "Respect" (written and originally performed by Otis Redding) and made it hers, Soft Cell now owns this song. The duo's version was and remains not only a great song, but it is also instantly recognizable to people of several generations, usually after just two notes. The song is also important in that it was an early and important synth-pop/electronic entry into the mainstream music charts, spending 15 weeks on the U.S. charts in 1982 (peaking at #8), which injected some passion into what some considered a cold musical genre. The influence of this single is also evidenced by the number and diversity of the artists who have covered the song since Soft Cell, for instance Atrocity, Marilyn Manson, Shades Apart (highly recommended), Coil, and Tentacion (Spanish).

I really believed his anger when he was singing this song. An excellent piece of techno music. I could not believe it when I found out that this was actually a remake of an R&B song from the 1960s.

This is one of the work songs of all time. It's just awful.

Absolutely none of my friends liked this song, but I didn't give a crap, because I loved it. I never get tired of hearing it even today.