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American artist Gloria Jones made the first recording of "Tainted Love" in 1964. Glen Campbell played lead guitar. [4] 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", [5] which was a commercial flop, failing to chart on either the US or the UK.
The music video for "Tainted Love" was directed by Peter Christopherson with an £8.000 advance, [45] and was aired around same time the single was released. The video features Balance, portrayed as an AIDS victim in his last days, and Christopherson as a hospital orderly. [32]
After the chart failure of "Memorabilia", Phonogram Records allowed Soft Cell to record a second and final single in an attempt to score a chart success. The band opted to record a cover version of "Tainted Love", an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones (the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death) and written by Ed Cobb of the Four Preps.
As well as books and classes, there are YouTube tutorials and TikTok videos to help people who may need a clearer explanation to learn how to crochet. [ 23 ] Filet crochet , Tunisian crochet , tapestry crochet , broomstick lace , hairpin lace , cro-hooking , and Irish crochet are all variants of the basic crochet method.
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is the debut studio album by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, released on 27 November 1981 by Some Bizzare Records. [2] [3] The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the success of its lead single, a cover version of Gloria Jones's song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
Tan explained the production process of sampling "Tainted Love", as well as the changes which were made: This song uses a stereo two-bar loop from Soft Cell's song 'Tainted Love' as its basis. J.R. played the additional parts with a combination of soft and hardware synths. There were probably 30 to 40 tracks in total.
"L. S. F. (Lost Souls Forever)" No Yes Yes The Killers "When You Were Young" Yes No No Mando Diao "Long Before Rock 'n' Roll" No No Yes The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "The Impression That I Get" No Yes No Motörhead "Ace of Spades" Yes No No Nickelback "Savin' Me" Yes No No Nirvana "Come as You Are" Yes No No O.A.R. "Love and Memories" Yes No Yes ...
Also this made much more confusing by the music video and the excessive use of visual metaphors ("tainted love" could take on multiple meanings after watching the video; forbidden gay love, AIDs crisis, the mixed-race child/affair scenario, pedophelia as another form of "forbidden love" and etc.) Jooojay 00:56, 28 October 2017 (UTC)