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Soft Cell — Tainted Love
Album: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
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Released: 1981
Length: 2:36
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Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears, and that's not nearly all
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love

Now I know I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away, you don't really want any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you think love is to pray
But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears, and that's not nearly all
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love

Don't touch me, please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm gonna pack my things and go

Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Oh)
Touch me, baby, tainted love

Touch me, baby, tainted love
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love
Tainted love
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Coneheads!!   
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
For anyone interested.  Soft Cell have a new album due 06 May 2022,  *Happiness Not Included.
Posted 2 years ago by Jayesea    [ Reply ]
I absolutely cannot abide this noise.
Posted 2 years ago by Edweirdo    [ Reply ]
Divine. Everything about it. Divine.
Posted 3 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
Irrational I know, but I hate, hate, hate this version. Something dies in me every time I hear it. Wichita Lineman is another.

Off now, to spread a little joy somewhere else.
Posted 3 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
I was in Gr. 11 when this came out in 1981. We'd never heard anything like it before.
Posted 3 years ago by newbolddrive    [ Reply ]
my introduction to this song: then MARiLYN MANSON furthered the cover

Posted 3 years ago by dischuckin    [ Reply ]
OMG! I'd always thought this was early 1990s. Might be the synchronicity with the time I started going out :)
Posted 3 years ago by Egctheow    [ Reply ]
IMHO the perfect cover.
Posted 9 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
It would be good to hear the original version by Gloria Jones.

 
Genius.

 
Posted 9 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 kurtster wrote:
Ear candy.  Long version is even better.

 
Ah, yes, that reminds me that, back in the 80s when vinyl still ruled, singles regularly came out in 12" versions which were ideal for the dance floor, and this was one of them.

I loved Soft Cell's electro-sleaze then, and I think it's still appealing and relevant 3 decades later.
Posted 9 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Bad case of psd
Posted 9 years ago by caatgrrrl    [ Reply ]
I used to work at this company back in the 90's that had this phone system that your desk phone would beep when you had a voice message. The tone and beat was exactly like the one in this song. So whenever someone got a voice message the whole department would start singing Tainted Love to the phone Beep Beep.
Posted 9 years ago by ColdMiser    [ Reply ]
Ear candy.  Long version is even better.
Posted 10 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
It would be good to hear the original version by Gloria Jones.
Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Takes me back....love it!  {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 10 years ago by dw    [ Reply ]
Excellent!
Posted 10 years ago by rgabriel    [ Reply ]
{#Heartkiss} ..... luv it, dancing time 8 >>> 9
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
I like this song though if you listen to closely and get that department store ding in your head that can be trouble!{#Lol}
Posted 10 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Trippy, silly, Time-Freezing stuff. When it came out and was on the radio, we enjoyed making mirthful parody of it.  And it's worthy of it yet!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Great sleaze-pop. I loved this in the day because it was so different, and I think it still works. Soft Cell's work immediately evokes images of dark, dingy basement clubs in Soho with dodgy characters and sticky carpets. And sexual deviance, of course {#Angel}

Soft Cell was always a guilty pleasure, a bit like watching a sleazy porn video. 8 from the guiltily perverted Nottingham jury.
Posted 11 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
This always seemed like one of the least musical recordings I ever heard. Mediocre melody, cheap synthetic instrumentation, off-key singing. Catchy song in its own way, but really amateurishly produced.
Posted 11 years ago by MJMJ    [ Reply ]
This is so strange to hear here, but i cant get away from this earwurm!
Posted 11 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
It hasn't aged well, but scores an 8 for personal nostalgia..... Miss Brown... where are you now? ;)
Posted 11 years ago by tiggers    [ Reply ]
You have to love what the AMG entry has to say about Soft Cell, \"A synth-pop duo famed for its uniquely sleazy electronic sound\" :) It\'s good for a few 80\'s memories, at least.
Posted 21 years ago by Joyfulchristine    [ Reply ]
Did anyone ever like this song? :roll:
Posted 21 years ago by phobos    [ Reply ]
Hmmm. Niether eclectic nor intelligent. But that\'s ok as it takes all kinds to make a world.
Posted 21 years ago by Tizmself    [ Reply ]
This set needed this song - or some approximation - at this time.
Posted 21 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]