Tainted Love

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"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.[1] In 1981, the song attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synth-pop duo Soft Cell for their album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The song has since been covered by numerous groups and artists.

Gloria Jones versions

American artist Gloria Jones made the first recording of "Tainted Love" in 1964. Glen Campbell played lead guitar.[2] The song was written and produced by Ed Cobb and arranged by Lincoln Mayorga. It was the B-side of her 1965 single "My Bad Boy's Comin' Home",[3] which was a commercial flop, failing to chart on either the US or the UK. According to Nick Talevski, before Jones recorded the song, Cobb had offered it to the Standells, whom he managed and produced, but they rejected it.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Standells say that the song was never offered to them, and that they were not signed to Cobb's company Greengrass Productions until 1966, some two years after Jones's recording.[4]

In 1973, British club DJ Richard Searling purchased a copy of the almost decade-old single while on a trip to the United States. The track's Motown-influenced sound (featuring a fast tempo, horns, electric rhythm guitar and female backing vocals) fit in perfectly with the music favoured by those involved in the UK's Northern soul club scene of the early 1970s, and Searling popularised the song at the Northern soul club Va Va's in Bolton, and later, at Wigan Casino.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Owing to the new-found underground popularity of the song, Jones re-recorded "Tainted Love" in 1976 and released it as a single, but it also failed to chart. This version was released on her album Vixen and was produced by her boyfriend Marc Bolan.[5]

In 2014, NME ranked it number 305 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[6]

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Soft Cell version

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English synth-pop duo Soft Cell became aware of "Tainted Love" through its status as a UK "Northern soul" hit.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 2010, DJ Ian "Frank" Dewhirst claimed he was the first person to play the song for Marc Almond, the vocalist for Soft Cell. Some time after, Soft Cell began performing the song in their live setlist, choosing it instead of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' "The Night" (a song they would go on to record in 2003).[7]Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Eventually, a Phonogram Records A&R manager Roger Ames opted the band to record the single at a London-based Advision Studios, with producer Mike Thorne. There, Soft Cell's version was recorded in a day and a half with Almond's first vocal take being used on the record.[8]Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Thorne commented that he was surprised by the choice as he had not been impressed by Jones's 1976 version on hearing it, but was impressed by the new arrangement and Almond's sinister vocal: "You could smell the coke on that second, Northern Soul version, it was really so over-ramped and so frantic. It was good for the dance floor, but I didn't like the record...when Soft Cell performed the song I heard a very novel sound and a very nice voice, so off we went."[9] Notably, Almond has stated in interviews that Soft Cell's version was inspired more by the 1975 version by English singer Ruth Swann (later known as Jill Saward) than that of Gloria Jones.[10]

Phonogram Records chose to release "Tainted Love" in 1981 as Soft Cell's second single (their first was "Memorabilia", which did not chart).[9] The label's representatives implied that this single would be Soft Cell's final release on Some Bizzare if it did not sell.[9] The 12-inch single version (extended dance version) is a medley, transitioning to a cover of the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" halfway through the song. Marc Almond said that this decision was not the duo's, recounting, "If only we'd put our own song on it then we would be considerably richer", while David Ball described the medley as "the most costly idea of our career".[11]

Following a performance on the BBC's Top of the Pops chart show, "Tainted Love" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, and was known as the best-selling single of 1981 in the UK, until the Official Charts Company recalculated the data in 2021[12] (giving the title to "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League).[13] "Tainted Love" had 1.05 million sales in the UK in 1981, with that total increasing to 1.35 million copies as of August 2017.[13] In 2023, it was listed as the 59th best-selling single of all time in the UK.[14]

Buoyed by the then-dominant new wave sound of the time and released on their album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, "Tainted Love" became a major hit in the US during the Second British Invasion, with the song spending a then-record breaking[15] 43 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100.[16] On the US chart dated January 16, 1982, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 90. It appeared to peak at number 64 and fell to number 100 on February 27. After spending a second week at number 100, it started climbing again. It took 19 weeks to crack the American Top 40 and reached number 8 during the summer of 1982.[16]

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"Soft Cell, a tweezy synthesizer and singer duo whose fondest subject was sexual perversion, had a huge turntable hit in the clubs with "Tainted Love", which then crossed over to radio, enjoying the longest tenure, at forty-three weeks, of any single in Billboard history."

—Anglomania: The Second British Invasion, by Parke Puterbaugh for Rolling Stone, November 1983.[16]

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A video was recorded specially for Soft Cell's video album Non-Stop Exotic Video Show, directed by Tim Pope and featuring David Ball as a cricketer meeting Marc Almond in a toga on what seems to be Mount Olympus.[17]

In 1996, director Spike Jonze used Soft Cell's version of the song in a television commercial for Levi's jeans, titled "Doctors", syncing the song to the sound of a heart rate monitor in a hospital.[18][19] The television commercial was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial at the 49th Primetime Emmy Awards the following year.[20][21]

In 2013, Soft Cell's version of "Tainted Love" ranked number five on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 1980s.[22] It was also heavily sampled on Rihanna's 2006 single "SOS" from her album A Girl Like Me and the Veronicas' 2007 single "Hook Me Up" from their album Hook Me Up.[23] In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's fourth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[24] In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked "Tainted Love" number 170 with "Where Did Our Love Go" in their list of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".[25]

Tainted Love '91

A re-recorded version, titled "Tainted Love '91", was issued in 1991, seven years after Soft Cell's dissolution in 1984, as a tie-in to the compilation album Memorabilia – The Singles (which reached number eight in the UK Albums Chart in June 1991).[26] "Tainted Love '91" was a follow-up to "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91", which was another re-recorded/remixed version of an earlier single from the Soft Cell/Marc Almond compilation. "Tainted Love '91" became another top-40 hit from the collection and peaked at number five in the UK charts, making it Soft Cell's sixth top-10 hit (as records with re-recorded vocals were seen as a new hit by the chart compilers of the time)[27]

The video for this version, directed by Peter Christopherson, features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars.[28] Christopherson's band Coil had covered "Tainted Love" in 1985, with a music video that included a cameo appearance by Almond.[29]

Charts

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Marilyn Manson version

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American rock band Marilyn Manson covered "Tainted Love" with an arrangement based on Soft Cell's version. It was released in November 2001 as a single from the Not Another Teen Movie soundtrack.[65] The accompanying music video featured cast members Chyler Leigh, Mia Kirshner, Chris Evans and Jaime Pressly.[66][67] It was later included as a bonus track on international editions of the band's following album, The Golden Age of Grotesque in 2003.[68] Manson said that he was not "really thinking about '80s nostalgia" during the recording, while recognizing it as a main concept behind the soundtrack.[69]

"Tainted Love" topped the charts in Portugal and peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom.[70] It also peaked within the top ten of the charts throughout the rest of Europe, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway.[71] It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single in 2002,[72] and won the Kerrang! Award for Best Video.[73] It was also nominated for Best Video at the 2002 Q Awards.[74]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2001–2002) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[75] 2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[76] 11
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[77] 7
Denmark (Tracklisten)[78] 3
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[71] 3
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[79] 11
France (SNEP)[80] 25
Germany (GfK)[81] 3
Hungary (Single Top 40)[82] 3
Ireland (IRMA)[35] 11
Italy (FIMI)[83] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[84] 44
Norway (VG-lista)[85] 7
Portugal (Billboard)[71] 1
Scotland (OCC)[86] 4
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[87] 4
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[88] 11
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[89] 2
UK Singles (OCC)[70] 5
US Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard)[90] 30
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[91] 33

Year-end charts

Chart (2002) Position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[92] 18
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[93] 55
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[94] 17
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[95] 25
Germany (Media Control)[96] 24
Ireland (IRMA)[97] 77
Italy (FIMI)[98] 16
Sweden (Hitlistan)[99] 37
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[100] 19
UK Singles (OCC)[101] 65

Certifications

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Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States November 13, 2001 Template:Hlist Template:Hlist [102]
United Kingdom March 18, 2002 CD [103]
Japan May 9, 2002 Maverick [104]

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