Tainted love
| Tainted love | |
|---|---|
| Gloria Jones | |
| publication | May 1965 |
| length | 2:12 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , soul |
| Author (s) | Ed Cobb |
| Producer (s) | Ed Cobb |
| Label | Champion Records |
| Cover versions | |
| 1981 | Soft cell |
| 2001 | Marilyn Manson |
Tainted Love ( English for "Corrupted Love") is a song written by Ed Cobb that became known worldwide in the 1981 version of Soft Cell . The single reached number one in the UK and Germany .
Gloria Jones version (1965)
In 1965, Gloria Jones recorded the original version of Tainted Love ; The producer was Ed Cobb, who was previously on The Four Preps and had also written the piece. The song appeared as the B-side of the single My Bad Boy's Comin 'Home . The song had no commercial success and only reached the charts in France at number 144.
In 1973, British club DJ Richard Searling bought a copy of the single on a trip to the United States . The Motown- influenced sound with its fast pace, the horns used, the electric guitar and the female backing vocals seemed to fit into the British Northern soul club scene of the early 1970s . Searling therefore made the piece known in a club in Bolton and later in the Wigan Casino . In 1976 he brought out a newly produced version, but it missed the charts.
Soft Cell Version (1981)
The synthpop duo Soft Cell knew the club version from the local scene and recorded their own, modified version of the song in 1981 with producer Mike Thorne . The soft-cell version was slower and used drum machines and synthesizers instead of the classical rhythm section and brass section. The piece was recorded in just one day and used Marc Almond's first vocal take .
The record label of the band Some Bizzare released the song on July 18, 1981 as the second single after Memorabilia , assuming that this song would not sell much better either. There was also a 12-inch version where the song went over to the B-side's The Supremes cover Where Did Our Love Go .
In the wake of the wave of synth pop at the time and supported by an appearance on Top of the Pops , the song reached number one on the charts in Great Britain and 17 other countries, including Germany . It reached number two in Switzerland and Austria . The piece entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 90, reached number 8 after a few weeks and stayed in the charts for 43 weeks. VH-1 TV station put the song at number five in its 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 1980s .
A music video was recorded especially for the video album Non Stop Exotic Video and shows the band members Marc Almond and David Ball in Togen on Olympus . A remixed version of the piece by Soft Cell and Marc Almond was released in 1991; there was also a new video. Tainted Love '91 reached 22nd place in Germany and Switzerland. In 2006, this version of the piece was sampled by Rihanna in her piece SOS , which hit number one on the US charts.
Marilyn Manson version
In 2001, Marilyn Manson recorded a 3:20 minute version that appeared on the soundtrack for Not Another Teen Movie and on the subsequent album The Golden Age of Grotesque as a bonus track. In Great Britain this version reached number five on the charts and was also successful in many other countries, including Germany, where it reached number three, in Switzerland and Austria number two each. It also achieved high chart positions in many other countries. The video shows Manson bringing friends to a party. Actors from the film can be seen as well as Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison and Tim Skold , who was not in the band at the time.
Other versions
- 1982: Dave Phillips And The Hot Rod Gang , on the album Wild Youth
- 1985: Coil , on the 12-inch single Panic / Tainted Love
- 1992: The Flying Pickets , on the album The Warning
- 1992: Inspiral Carpets , on the Ruby Trax album
- 1996: Bluekilla , on the album Ska-a-Gogo
- 1997: Atrocity , on the album Werk 80
- 1998: The Living End , B-side to the single All Torn Down
- 2001: Max Raabe , on the album Superhits number 2
- 2002: Prozac + , on the album Miodio
- 2005: The Pussycat Dolls , on the album PCD
- 2004: Thomas Schumacher , KRIWET sampled the song and made the track Tainted sound a Techno - Remix
- 2006: Milk Inc. , on the album Supersized (seventh place in Belgium ( Flanders ))
- 2006: Rihanna sampled the song on SOS
- 2006: Alejandra Guzmán , in the soundtrack of the Mexican film Cansada de besar sapos
- 2007: Richard Gray , dance version (10th place in Finland )
- 2009: The Pigeon Detectives , charity single for Cash for Kids
- 2010: Flo Rida sampled the song on Zoosk Girl (featuring T-Pain )
- 2010: Imelda May , on the album Mayhem
- 2011: Scorpions , on the album Comeblack
- 2016: Marquess , on the album Sol y Soul ( Falso amor )
literature
- Christian Bielefeldt and Marc Pendzich: Spot Checks of Pop History: The Cover Recordings of “Stand By Me” and “Tainted Love”. In: Lied und popular Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 56 (= yearbook of the German folk song archive ), 2011, pp. 97–111.
Web links
- Richard Buskin: Soft Cell “Tainted Love”. Classic Tracks, The Stereo Society (first published in Sound on Sound, April 2012).
- Song dictionary: Tainted Love. Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg.
- Tainted Love - Soft Cell ; SWR3 : The greatest hits and their history (Podcast)
Individual evidence
- ^ Johnny Black: The Greatest Songs Ever: Soft Cell, "Tainted Love" ( Memento of May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Blender.com (English).
- ↑ Gloria Jones - Tainted Love , hitparade.ch
- ↑ Dave Haslam: Manchester, England: the story of the pop cult city. Fourth Estate, London 1999, chap. 6, p. 172.
- ↑ Record details: Soft Cell - Tainted Love. 45cat.com.
- ^ Soft Cell - Tainted Love , hitparade.ch
- ↑ 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s: 5. “Tainted Love” - Soft Cell. VH-1, May 2, 2013 ( memento from January 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ^ Soft Cell / Marc Almond - Tainted Love '91 , hitparade.ch
- ^ Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love , hitparade.ch