Tender Cell’s 1981 traditional “Tainted Love” has joined the Spotify Billions Membership.
“Tainted Love” was a specialist membership favourite within the Sixties, written by Ed Cobb and recorded by Gloria Jones, the long run girlfriend of T. Rex’s Marc Bolan. In 1981, it was reborn as an early landmark of the electro-pop sound when Tender Cell put the synths in northern soul and took it to the highest of the UK charts.
Marc Almond and Dave Ball had been making music collectively for a few years after assembly at Leeds Artwork Faculty. “Dave introduced me to the record,” Almond later remembered of the “Tainted Love” unique. “I loved it so much, and we wanted an interesting song for an encore number in our show. Dave loved northern soul and it was a novelty to have an electronic synthesizer band doing a soul song.”
With a 30-week chart time period, “Tainted Love” turned Tender Cell’s breakthrough and helped their subsequent first album Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret to change into a giant vendor. When the one was launched in America, it reached No.8 and created a brand new chart longevity report on the time by spending an unimaginable 43 weeks on the Scorching 100.
Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret “tells a story of a bored ordinary bloke seething with his life wanting more and looking for excitement and adventure in a red neon lit Soho world of red-light cabarets, prostitutes and sex dwarves, looking back at his youth and wondering what happened,” in accordance with Almond.
Tender Cell not too long ago introduced a reissue of their 1982 remix album Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing. The brand new double-CD model options the unique album remastered and the unique prolonged variations of “Torch” and “What!” (a canopy of Judy Avenue’s 1968 Northern Soul single). The second disc contains new remixes by Erasure, The Hacker, Jon Happy Wimmin, Daniel Miller, The Grid, and Hifi Sean, in addition to highlights from 2007’s Warmth – The Remixes.
Order Tender Cell’s Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing now.
