 | deadonthemoney (7)
03/09/2006 | not biggest hit for this group, it was the only hit for soft cell. theyre like the vapors. they were one hit wonders.
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 | kingguiness (11)
03/09/2006 |
One of the most effective synth pop New Wave songs ever made. Beautifully haunting. The extended version with the Supremes ad is great. Actually this album is pretty good. Other songs like the steamy sex dwarf and frustration are sadly unrecognized.
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 | FranksWildYears (48)
02/14/2006 | The extended version that morphs into the dreamy version of the Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go is one of the finest moments of the whole synth-pop era. OK, that may not be setting the bar particularly high, but it was till a great version of both songs.
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 | VirileVagabond (32)
11/18/2003 | Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love was a stroke of genius. The song was originally recorded in 1964 by soul singer Gloria Jones, and though Soft Cell's arrangement stayed true to the original, the single was genuine Euro, synth-pop which brought the sound to American audiences. What was often a passionless musical genre was now heard with emotion straining at the apathetic seams. In the end, it is Soft Cell which made Tainted Love immortal and inescapable, not Ms Jones. The single charted in the U.S. for 15 weeks in 1982 (peaking at #8) and has been covered countless times by numerous artists, including Tentacion's Spanish version, Marilyn Manson, Atrocity, the Living End, Shades Apart, My Ruin, Coil, Deathline International, and Impedance. Nevertheless, as Soft Cell's Tainted Love is still a cover, I just can't bring myself to give the song five stars.
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