Tainted Love

[nrgbeat]

Was "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell ever a big hit in clubs.

I've heard it a million times on the radio and like the song, but have never heard it in a club. I don't think it would be the easiest song to dance to.

[BrunoRepublic]

Well, it certainly is popular on retro nights here. And yeah, it's not the easiest tune to dance to...

[disco1999]

Just as if it was yesterday, I recall dancing so many weekends to Tainted Love full blast in Montreal's Limelight, it was a hit on radio and club scene obviously as well.
Those were the years of: peeps sniffing poppers, and coke carelessly on counters along the dancefloor, dressing up real weird (Studio 54 influence?), listening to:
Human League - Hard Times,
Love International - Dance on the groove and do the funk,
Grace Jones - Pull up to the pumper
and so many others.

[QUINNY]

I've been trying, for the past 22 years, to forget that Tainted Love was played in clubs. How I absolutely loathed that record!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

[BrunoRepublic]

It certainly doesn't fit in with the rest of the album that it was put on. I still listen to Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, but I always skip Tainted Love.

I must admit that the 12" version, with the fabulous segue to Where Did Our Love Go, was absolutely brilliant at the time. Totally sick of it now, though (and that fact that I still hear somewhere at least once a month isn't helping).

[Mixmachine]

I used to spin the 12” version in my wave sets in the early 80’s, it was a big club hit at the time, Phil Collins also had his Motown hit cover (?) at the same time which I didn’t like as much because of it’s pop sound, on the other hand, I loved Tainted Love, for me this version was stripped down to its bare essence and it was brilliant, but then again I also liked “Satisfaction” by Devo…Hahahaha

[efunk_adelic]

I just played at a 20th high school reunion ... this past Saturday.... guess which record packed the floor & got the best reaction of the evening?

[Outsider]

I've been trying, for the past 22 years, to forget that Tainted Love was played in clubs. How I absolutely loathed that record!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

I can't stand the song either.

:evil:

[NickNack]

This song, again :x . Hate it, hate it, HATE IT! It became one of the focal points (a la Blondie's "Call Me") on which way we regular dj's at the Anvil were going to take the club. Of the four of us, one insisted this song was the hottest thing since buttered toast. He pushed his crowd willingly into New Wave/Rock. We remaining three stayed true to disco/funk.

This song did nothing for me in the 60's and was absolutely dreadful when Soft Cell covered it.

[paul]

I'm with the crowd that absolutely positively hates that song. If any DJ played that at any of the discos I attended, he'd a been strung up :evil:

[PaulC]

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[02tranzam]

definitley a car song,nothing more.
but it did have its own flavor nothing else sounded like it for its time.

[markydefad]

I recall seeing "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?" by Soft Cell on the Billboard Club charts...so I guess someone played it!!!

I heard it in the bars...don't recall hearing it at Troc.

I think it's an essential record of that time period.

[DISCODISK]

Gloria Jones original was a big underground hit on the Northern Soul scene in the UK, way before Soft Cell decided to claim it as theirs.

yes PAULC youre right but i dont think the ever claimed the song as their own.
marc and dave used to hang around the northern soul clubs and later wanted to cut a northern soul track so it was a toss up between that and 'the night'-frankie valli a uk only mowest 7" release that ended up charting pop and is still a big radio play today.
tainted love won out,written by detroit legend ed cobb,theres a bit of a funny story about marc almond and ed cobb,marc was at the record companys offices in the u.s and he'd heard ed cobb was coming in and had asked to meet him it was all agreed.
ed cobb came into the room shot past marc without looking,out the other side and gone!! marc was obviously upset[and still is]that ed wouldnt even look at him,considering the royalties ed was about to receive!and nobody knew why ed did that
possible reasons

1 ed actually DID get a glimpse of marc through the corner of his eye

2 ed HATED marcs version

3 ed had READ an article that had been in a magazine around that time where marc admitted that he loved 'hitchiking' and getting 'picked up' by 'butch' truckdrivers :o :o :lol: :lol:

strangely soft cell did record and release 'the night' a few months ago, 22 years later!

[bobbchap]

That song brings back some great memories. I like the remix better. "Tainted love/where did our love go?" It CAN get rather old, fast. And it's terrible to dance to. I remember lots of nights it cleared the dance floor. The DJ liked it I guess. But like I said, for the memories,..it's good.

[infrasound]

I still hear Tainted Love played a lot, in clubs and people's homes. I am sort of neutral on the song, it doesn't bug me or inspire me. I like the Non-Stop Erotic Dancing EP, especially the instrumental "A Man Could Get Lost". Also I like "Sex Dwarf" a lot, even though it is deliberately repulsive and it offends and irritates many...apparently Marc Almond wrote the lyrics completely from an article in a National Enquirer or Weekly World News kind of tabloid with the headline: "Sex Dwarf Lures Disco Dolly To A Life of Vice".