Shiny Disco Balls
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@TrashTheory

3y↑23

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@jackgahan149

DO A DOCUMENTERY OF VISAGE ( STEVE STRANGE) PLEASE ✌️😎

@greenhowie

Um, might want to check the subtitles for that ad read

@duncankaraoke.dunkeyoake6132

51w

@felixhenson9926

3y↑9

Soft Cell are criminally underrated.

@metocvideo

3y↑84

Many years after the single had almost faded away, I went to an outdoor concert in London, by Jools Holland and his big band. The park was packed out and everyone was having a great time, then Jools “mystery guest” came on. It was Mark Almond, who did 3 songs, the last of which was “Tainted Love”. To say it stopped the show was an understatement, with thousands of 30-somethings singing along and suddenly getting up and dancing. You could see that Mark was pleased, and perhaps a bit teary, over the thunderous applause from the audience, and even the orchestra got up to applaud as well.

@jeshkam

2y↑2

Do you remember what year exactly it was? In the 1990s? Earlier?

@anthonyr.1568

2y↑22

I'm surprised that Gloria Jones' version didn't chart. It's such a masterpiece, it gets me hype everytime I hear it! Probably her rough kind of voice didn't fit the canon of that time.

@theneonchimpchannel9095

3y↑137

Gloria Jones was driving the car the night Marc Bolan died. She later received the harshest review I've ever read, "she sings like she drives". She actually had a decent voice, but I guess whoever wrote that review didn't like her.

@ollyf5088

3y↑19

It's ironic that he's the reason Marc Almond spells his name like that too

@MothraBlues

3y↑12

Holy hell that's nasty. Do you recall who wrote that, or which Gloria Jones recording it was for? Just idly curious. Cheers 👍

@NickyM_0

3y↑4

He stole Gloria Jone's 'Tainted Love'. Didn't ask her permission, gave her no recognition and no money for her creativity that gave him a whole career. He is known for her record.

@anafana9320

@Olly F Rachel bolan of Skid Row named himself after him too

@ThreadBomb

3y↑12

@Jenny J. She didn't write the song.

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@MonkeyspankO

3y↑101

We're still extending the influence of "synth pop" today. Its alive and well as an art form. Truly amazing what people achieved in a few short years with a brand new technology in the 70s and 80s. So many iconic bands and timeless tracks

@mcolville

3y↑139

His solo album, "The Stars We Are" is pretty brilliant. He could have had whatever career he wanted.

@edwardautrey3671

3y↑11

Tears run rings is timeless.

@apathyinmotion

3y↑12

Also his album Tenement Symphony is brilliant as well.

@xamyx2205

3y↑14

He's still active, and has released some 20 or so albums since "The Stars We Are"... His career stalled basically due to his loyalty to a bad manager... I last saw him live in October 2019, and he can still captivate an audience, and his energy level is probably higher than it was in 1989, when I first saw him live...

@novelty4

3y↑3

One of the greatest albums EVER.

@necronsplayer

3y↑2

Yo, Colville's here :U

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@laurabarss3543

3y↑15

They’re so original and different, real classic! They started something and Marc is an icon for a reason in many ways, they’re both naturals at what they do I mean Marc is a poetic genius, he can tell a story to a T that u can visualise it, feel that situation and still make it a song and Dave’s tunes are always so unique and hold/give off the exact vibe the lyrics are about that makes u feel their music. Also I don’t know who they were kidding trying to perceive Marc as anything but himself and a gay man and so what, he’s always been unapologetically himself and done what he wanted and that’s what makes his work and him so great and unique. They’re both very interesting and I’d definitely say trailblazers and spoke to a lot of people and for bands after them who seemed to be inspired to have a phase that resembled a lot of what soft cell were critiqued for lol. True greats and definitely a huge main part of the early 80’s synth movement, they started the first soulful singer with synth electronic sound anyway! thanks for the vid! :)

@alfredrutz9798

3y↑7

His solo work was way above Soft Cell. In particular his album dedicated to 'Jacques' Brel, as well as 'Enchanted', 'Absinthe' & 'Mother fist & her 5 daughters'.
Artistically, Marc Almond, is one of Britain's brightest ⭐ of Pop Music history!!!

@sonnysumo8172

3y↑66

Man I hope you cover Throbbing Gristle on this show at some point. In addition to being industrial music pioneers, they’ve had a wild band history that branches off into separate projects and then reconvenes years later.

@maxmatson1578

3y↑6

I feel you on that. I would definitely love to have them cover them. But even more so coil!

@astroboirap

3y↑1

thy suck

@nohozana

3y↑3

@astroboirap To be fair, industrial music wouldn't be what it is without their vision, but I kinda agree their ''music'' isn't that good.

@ashleyhathaway8548

3y↑3

I love sticking "Hamburger Lady" in the middle of random playlists just to traumatize the unsuspecting.

@138abob

3y↑7

One of the best and most underrated band’s. I absolutely adore Soft Cell!

@Chief_Brody

35w

Ahhh the old ubiquitous "underrated" comment on YouTube. You're so original. Prat

@138abob

35w↑2

@@Chief_Brody I bet you felt really good about yourself when you left your little comment. I really love the cute way you decided to call me an idiot. Super cool bro. Ya know I really don't know what I was thinking when I called an actual underrated band... Underrated! I deserve your scorn obviously. You must be a really good person and not a total piece of shit at all. Go you "Chief Brody"!

@rainyfristoe7682

3y↑33

Soft Cell is my favorite band and very underrated. My soul wept tears of joys seeing this review!

@Chief_Brody

35w

No, they were not underated. They were a very average synth pop group.

@sharpieman2035

3y↑22

Coil definitely deserves their own video at some point, they have so much great stuff!

@rhan7466

3y↑8

Always assumed Tainted Love was an original. It sounds so of the time. Great song. Great insight into its creation.

@capnjames

3y↑29

The idea of mixing genres in his head is always what innovative artists in history have done. Very inspiring.

@casucasueq4479

3y↑18

As a naive American I always assumed two things incorrectly. First, I didnt know Soft Cell covered this song. Second, because I thought Soft Cell wrote the song and because the lead singer sounded and looked so feminine I thought Tainted Love was a song about AIDS. Amazing how each artists version can give off such different feelings from the same song.

@nicoi-lm9ty

42w↑1

I'm sorry but that's actually so funny

@morgellon9449

3y↑13

Marc Almond appeared on two Psychic TV tracks from 1982's Force the Hand of Chance, and was good friends with Peter Christopherson and Jhon Balance of Coil, and appeared on various Coil tracks. They all shared similar interests, across the board.
Christopherson was also 1/4 of Throbbing Gristle, who influenced pretty much everybody in the electronic music scene in the early 80's. He directed an alternate version of Soft Cell's Tainted Love video. He also directed many other more popular music videos, such as Erasure's A Little Respect, Chains of Love and Stop!, Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart, and Van Halen's Can't Stop Lovin' You. He appears as a prisoner in the Marcy Playground video It's Saturday, which he also directed.

@mossadon

3y↑4

Knowledge ! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

@thesixfootsixexperience8781

3y↑35

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye is one of my favorite songs from this decade. That synth is so magnetic

@ericshippie1563

3y↑6

I have to say this could have been written exclusively for me.
This narrator is so knowledgeable. I would if he is solely New British Canon or is there a team?
When these come up on my feed I always watch. thank you sooooooo
much.
Soft Cell - Tainted Love is top ten soundtrack to my life. always has. Always will.
the "radar sounds" will always be in my childhood head

@mariorodriguez4472

3y↑5

This is what I love most about this channel, something easily passed over as a one-hit-wonder requires context: influences, inception, and follow-ups. This all makes for an amazing story and a better understanding of how music is where it's at.

@Chris_34

3y↑8

Love Soft Cell❤️. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye is an absolute classic.

@laukei1

3y↑4

beautiful video
the Coil version is soul crushing. Coil is probably the most enduring, the deepest band of my teen years. I can't seem to stop hearing new things in their tracks.

@piotrd7355

3y↑6

Marc continued to work with Coil. He sings on their albums in the songs: "Titan Arch", "The Dark Age Of Love", "Who by Fire" (a cover of a Leonard Cohen song) and plays guitar on "Restless Day". In addition, he and Dave Ball have collaborated with various other industrial and post-industrial artists, including Pychic TV, Jim Thirwell, Current 93, Scanner, and X-TG.

@NianioNostimos

3y↑15

I remember being in junior high around around 83.
A friend gave
me the cassette Non Stop Erotic Cabaret. I loved the sleazy ness of the album. Sex Dwarf was hilarious.
The dance/synth vibe was a welcomed break from the angry/fast noise of punk I was use to with The Dead Kennedy’s and Black Flag.
I remember hearing It’s A Mugs Game around that time too and became a permanent fan of Soft Cell.
Years later in my high school record collecting phase, I found a US print single for Mugs Game and lost my mind when I noticed it was made in Torrance, CA, my home town!

@dambrooks7578

3y↑11

This band and their version of Tainted Love have had so much impact on my life, thank you for this 😍❤😍

@0therun1t21

3y↑3

Every single song on Non-Stop is great, there's no filler! I still play Memorabilia all the time, I love the NIN version too. Sex Dwarf is in all my friend's collections, it still gets played at clubs over here.

@comeonman5300

3y↑9

Great video. I'm glad you mentioned the issue of putting "Where Did Our Love Go" on the b side at 12.28. They could have put any throwaway self penned track on there. 2 million singles sold in the US would have made them a fortune.

@cdpetee

52w↑2

The B-side of "Tainted Love" in America was "Memorabilia", an Almond/Ball original, so they made out ok in the end.

@pheresy1367

3y↑3

Growing up in New York in the 60s, Tainted Love got plenty of airplay, maybe not as obscure as you think. I guess it depends on where you lived. When Soft Cell released its version, most people my age knew it was a cover, but the young 'uns didn't.

@Aramanth

3y↑3

LOVE Marc Almond, a wonderful prolific artist!
LOVE "Memorabilia", but most touching "Youth".
This was a great presentation of Soft Cell, thanks!
❣

@jimlemin8523

3y↑31

"Almonds sexuality was kept under wraps."
Okay, I'm having dinner, and I just snorted Bolognese sauce out of my nose.

@foto21

1y↑3

Tainted Love is one of those songs that's hidden at a faster pace, and really comes out slowed down. Such a brilliant cover but whoever wrote that song was a genius.

OMG. You just reacquainted me with Sex Dwarf. I was a DJ in a radio station and I think I recorded that song onto a mix tape and had totally forgotten it. It's prob my second favorite track of theirs.

@RandomEye1131

3y↑7

My all time favorite pop song!

I never knew anything about Soft Cell and I freaking love the story behind these guys. Excellent video.

@FluxyMiniscus

3y↑3

I love Marc and the Mambas and Soft Cell! I still have a bunch of their obscure vinyl, but my Mambas cassette wore out with overplay. I was delighted to find the music on YouTube…it had been decades since I heard my favorite tracks, but they still hold up over time.
other bands that I found that came close to scratching my dark electronic itch was the Legendary Pink Dots and Gelatinous Citizen to name a couple stand outs.
Thanks for these videos, great to hear the history behind my old obsessions

@PrinceLX

3y↑45

Trent Reznor is also a HUGE fan. There’s a bootleg of NIN covering ‘Sex Dwarf’ and he’s been quoted as saying he wished he’d been in the band.

@brunettezprettyr4296

3y↑3

Sex Dwarf my fav💓

@katherynemero4118

I don't know how to imagine Trent Reznor in Soft Cell. My brain can't wrap around it.

@thereturnwoo

3y↑3

My band cover bedsitter. It's become a mainstay and we play it at every show. I love it! We're going to record it and release it as a single this year.

@bitzbox

3y↑3

Would love to see more synth stuff from the 80's on your channel! Non Stop Erotic Cabaret is such a great album but I've always felt that Tainted Love was a bit out of place on it. It's a great song mind you and I still can't believe the original was never a hit. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye will always be my favourite Soft Cell track mind you.

@JoseCoelhohojedescobri

3y↑1

One of my favorite songs of all times. Just recently discovered it was a cover. I love your channel and your video essays. Would you please please and please do a video for Depeche Mode?? Thank you a lot :)

@richarddorazi8565

3y↑206

You forgot to mention "Tainted Love's" biggest use in Rihanna's first American #1 "SOS" which is built entirely on Soft Cell's cover

@comradetomtuttle

3y↑11

Good point. That is a brilliant sample.

@djgaryowens

3y↑10

Not a single original idea have these artists, everything is done by sampling, copying, and stealing from other artists.

@ericmuir3356

3y↑63

@Gary Owens isn't that exactly what soft cell did with tainted love?

@djgaryowens

3y↑9

@Eric Muir Yeah, but they did their own stuff too. All the likes of Rihanna do is come along and warble a few lines into a computer and the producers fix the rest. Utterly talentless garbage.

@johnIZaUWL

3y↑1

That’s one annoying song lol

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@PJinDowntownLA

3y↑14

In 1990, I mistakenly bought Marc Almond's "Enchanted", thinking it had the single "Tears Run Rings". It didn't, but the purchase was a happy accident - that CD was sooooo good.

@malloryemclaren

3y↑1

I love the extended version's organ solo. It is like a musical narrative of a jilted vampire, frantic with heartbreak, about to get their revenge.

@68Warpigs

3y↑6

Thanks for another great episode, Marc Almond is actually my favourite male vocalist ever and Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is never far from my palylist.

@maxmatson1578

3y↑2

FUCK YES!!! Thank you for covering. The coil version of "Tainted Love" the best version in my opinion. That track can move me to tears. Please! please! do a video on "coil".🙏 There's ever a group that deserves it, It's them!🎹🎧💫💀😵 rest in peace John & Peter. the world sucks that much more without coil in it.😔🙏✋✌

@paul6925

3y↑2

I first got into music around the time this came out. I was 9 years old! Loved it and the sound has influenced my taste ever since

@johnpresnell

3y↑2

Another great video; you really seem to excel when the subject is early-80’s. Please do something on Frankie Goes To Hollywood and/or Malcom McLaren’s influence on the music scene!

@brandonpage7087

Thanks for this! Like most, I only know Soft Cell for their lone top 40 U.S. hit, Tainted Love. Was cool to learn about other singles that they had, that charted overseas. Please do a video over Neneh Cherry. I'd be so grateful, if you did.

@alib.5237

3y↑7

YES!!!! thank you 💜 this is the video I needed hahahah soft cell is such an awesome and unfortanetely underrated duo

@conorquinn6405

Hey! I’m a huge fan. The way you gather info and create such linear focused content is so interesting and well done. I’d love to see a video on how Sonic Youth made a huge impact/ influenced the alt rock movement of the 90’s or anything Sonic related tbh. Thank you for creating such consistent content!

@crouching0tter

3y↑5

Every time you release one of these I gain an appreciation for a band or artist that I didn’t have before watching.

@unbiased1

I had no idea they had such a close relationship with the song. I've always love their cover.

@vicdmise

I love these video essays. Well-written, well-researched, and a great voice over presentation. (My only complaint is the pronunciation can, at times, be a bit off, but truly, this is a small complaint about a great series).

Every bit as great as the sorely missed, Every Frame. Please keep it up.

@quincyrich5817

3y↑19

I think it would be interesting to see a video about Vince Clarke, Yazoo and "Only You".

Thanks for the fantastic vids and keep up the good work!

@nicoleshan6410

3y↑1

Pleaseeeee

@jasoncollins1702

3y↑1

Appreciate the well-researched, considered and objective commentary. Nice to hear the B-side misjudgment mentioned; I think this is something many fans don't realise. Always use an original B-side! If Soft Cell didn't want to be seen as pop stars, they should've avoided Smash Hits and the like.

@electrosrahh

3y↑1

This video is awesome!
You should do one dedicated to synthpop/new wave/industrial, like (my fav band) Depeche Mode, De/Vision, And One, Wolfsheim.. it would be awesome if you do 🤟🏻

@veraciously

Love this era of British music, and yet I only discovered it through the soundtracks for the TV show Ashes to Ashes in the 00's. Some of the best TV soundtracks I've ever heard (alongside Life on Mars of course!).

@ergodoy7741

3y↑3

Marc Almond did a great, soulful cover of “Unchain My Heart” that beats Joe Cocker’s original and Has more honest feeling behind it than all his other campy melodramatic stuff. It was a B side that I haven’t been able to find again.

@JennWanderer

3y↑6

I am so happy to see this, I've been such a big fan for almost 20 years, I'm going to go watch a bunch of their videos for the millionth time in my life

@TheGreekPoet

3y↑3

The extended version that segued into Where Did Our Love Go (Supremes) is a masterpiece, IMO.

@victoriawright973

1y↑1

Absolutely! I still have the 12" vinyl to this day.

@incroyablisime

I like so much how you treat your subjects, I feel like an episode about the history of hyperpop/digicore/glitchcore would be sick.

@spiderjerusalem100

3y↑1

Would be cool if you made a video about the early 2000's British rock scene. Bands like Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, Reuben, Vex Red and thisGIRL.
So much awesome hard rock from the UK was coming out around that time and it had a pretty big mainstream following and i feel it's often overlooked.

@robt4390

Hell is for Heroes all the way.

If you ever get to see them live, their pre-set playlist consists entirely of songs with the lyric “Hero” in there somewhere. It is a trip, serenading the band (with a few thousand other “post-hardcore” fans) by singing along to an Enrique Iglesias song.

“I can be your hero baby...”

@michaelfrazia4569

this is an awesome series. I'm a new Yorker but love early 80s English electronic music. this is very informative...well done

@alfiewhitnell1387

3y↑17

Thank you for doing a video about Soft Cell! A very important band for me!

@riverx6802

Cool playlists btw!

@Benesat

3y↑10

Ohhhhh don’t forget the crazy spoken word album Marc Almond did with COIL. Was sorta the thing that made me reconsider Soft Cell.

@evapalma8078

3y↑5

And Marc’s project with Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave and JG Thirlwell, the Immaculate Conceptions

@Arfurido

3y↑1

Okay so, new to this channel and been binge watching everything bc one absolutely must!! But as you mentioned Erasure, I need to add a plus to a video to erasure because as an 8 year old Norwegian kid who just got access to MTV in the late 80's, there were a lot of stuff to dig into (Neneh Cherry, U2, Soft Cell - tbh this song I loved for a trillion decades and I was so happy when I saw there was a video about it) but somehow Erasure always fascinated me because they seemed so... odd?? But their sound were like... 80's optimism with some weird nu 90's sound. idk I just always liked it. Just wanted to say. Love LOVE your videos!!

@untitled1464

3y↑18

i would like to express my enthusiasm at the Youtube Algorithm once again bringing me to this lovely video. This is one of my favourite songs and one of the first songs I ever listened to. In kindergarten circa 2002 my class had to choreograph a dance number to this song and my mother-a teenager of the 80s-was super excited to help me out. This was my introduction to 80s music and my mother's youth culture.

@Petit784

3y↑116

If you covering British electronic music, the "idm" scene of the 90s (aphex twin, squarepusher) would be a good place to go.

@Evans-jl4qe

3y↑4

Yes!!

@FallenOneafg

3y↑8

Aphex Twin would be nice

@windman808

3y↑17

A new British Canon on 808 state - Pacific State (Or Pacific 707) would be epic

@nellsun2521

3y↑5

No one called it "IDM" in the nineties though. That's just a lazy term for people who can't tell the difference between Jungle; Drum & Bass; Drill & Bass; Breakcore; 2-Step; etc

@lloydholland5585

3y↑11

@Neil Sun I think calling IDM a lazy term is unfair. As with artists like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada I wouldn't put them singularly into any of those categories, instead they borrow elements from many places. Although calling it "intelligent" sounds pretentious i think it captures the freedom and creativeness of the genre without sticking to a specific style.

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@denisediaz6218

3y↑13

Bedsitter is actually my favorite softcell song. I found out this year that this version of tainted love is by them lol.

@alisterfolson

3y↑8

That Coil video was/is epic
Also whomever wrote Tainted Love can now put their Great Grandchildren through college.

@funkmasterdub

2y↑3

My Dad was a Drayman in Leeds delivering beer to pubs and clubs and he met Mark Almond who was living at a club in Leeds (The Gallery i think but i could be wrong) and he said that he was a really nice guy, very polite and always gave them a free drink!

@Prizzy999

42w

I never liked Soft Cell but always loved Marc Almond and his solo works. I've always found him charming, with a great voice and his version of Donna Summer's "I feel love" with Bronski Beat was fantastic.
A great artist.

@trentbardy2271

3y↑1

Soft cell were instrumental in co writing some of the Beatles biggest hits as well as teaching Hendrix how to play the guitar. After headlining both Woodstock and the very first Glastonbury they would then go on to inspire mod revival, punk and ska music. John Holt once said that without Almond’s contribution, ska music wouldn’t even exist.
After inventing grunge, death metal, house, drum and base and grime, Soft Cell got bored and went on to rearrange and rewrite some of Beethoven’s work to wit notable professors of classical music gushed, “Under Almond’s more masterly control, Beethoven has never sounded so good, classically composed music will never be the same again”
Although officially in retirement, the duo has since gone on to invent five new instruments and a music streaming platform that was the front runner to Spotify and iTunes. And are currently advising Elon Musk on his upcoming trip to Mars with the titular inventor stating that without Soft Cell space travel might never have happened!
Look, I get it, you really, really like Soft Cell. But trying to pretend that they influence every music genre under the sun is just horse crap. No self respecting DJ would’ve gone near them during the rave scene, I know coz I was there.

@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051

3y↑5

I'm not a huge fan of a lot of these 80s New Wave Bands, but I can't deny this song is iconic. I'd love to see you do a video on Gary Newman's Cars next

@seanburns8920

3y↑4

Another fantastic video! I’d love to see what your take on The JAMMS/Timelords/KLF would be. From their early Big In Japan/Zoo Records/Brilliant days to Jimmy Cauty forming The Orb with Alex Patterson.

@andrewharper1609

3y↑1

The KLF were truly oddball and rather wonderful.

@SearchfortheMeaning

3y↑1

Bowie called it "the European cannon" in Station to Station. My favorite song btw and a true gem.

@THX11458

I remember being well aware the earlier "Tainted Love" song before Soft Cell's version came out when I was in high school. The weird thing is, I had no idea who Gloria Jones was and had no interest in Soul or Motown music. Considering no pre-Soft Cell version of it ever charted in the United States (where I live) and the fact that I wasn't even born when the original song came out, I'm now wondering how I ever knew the song beforehand.

@Cl4rendon

3y↑2

Tainted Love is one of these songs i always skip - Soft Cell have such a rich and wonderful catalog of music that should not be neglected.

@user-hq1fj3zo4d

3y↑1

Coil's cover is very moving, indeed. Love it. Love both, of course.

@evapalma8078

3y↑4

The Some Bizarre album also has a hidden gem track from a band called Jell, with a chill, jazzy song called I Dare Say It Will Hurt A Little. Reminds me of Massive Attack

@kohhna

3y↑7

Its by far their best known but I like Sex Dwarf a lot better, that synth line is pure lush.

Dunno about a faourite, but maybe Our Darkness - Anne Clark. Or out of the better known ones, Nobodys Diary - Yazoo.

@TheCivildecay

3y↑1

Thanks now I want to hear that original version in full!

@thiscosmicshirleytemple8301

Soft Cell's first single after Mutant Moments was not Memorabilia. It was A Man Can Get Lost with Memorabilia on the b-side. The 12" Memorabilia came some weeks later.

@nicholasromig5506

3y↑5

there are so many cool goth-adjacent synthpop duos these days. Korine, Boy Harsher, Body Of Light. and you gotta figure they owe a ton to Soft Cell and The Pet Shop Boys

@LucasLima-ou3sz

Boy Harsher is one of the best working this vibe

@Georgeisindeepspace

3y↑1

Love the coil addition, so insightful

@binxboi7156

3y↑82

NIN also covered “Sex Dwarf” at early shows

@charly6066

3y↑5

are there any videos? thats my favourite track off NSEC

@ronroidz2925

3y↑3

@charly I think you can find videos of it on youtube, but it's only in bad quality because it's from 88 when NIN wasn't known yet. So there were no professional recordings, just self filmed stuff. But there is also a clip of Trent and the others working on the cover of sex dwarf during 95 or 96 in the studio (it's from the Closure VHS/DVD). But sadly no full studio version was ever released.

@slllloraxxx

3y↑1

Sex Dwarf was huge in the electroclash/indie dance/80s revival scene of the noughties, which was hilarious to me as I only knew Soft Cell from "totally 80s weekend" radio that my mom listened to in the car and VH1.

@ReneMenezes

3y↑5

Thank you for the amazing documentary !!! I first met the song in 1982 by an international hit parade compilation in Brazil. I was 8 yo. Loved it since !!

@XiiVoltRon

Enjoyable and educational. I remember when this song first came out. I was in high school. What a time! Thank you.

@connectingthedots100

3y↑1

Soft Cell has a lot more interesting history than I anticipated.

@freedomfilmssociety155

Utterly fascinating! Your research and hard work is very appreciated and quite entertaining. #StayFree

@kohhna

3y↑38

The 11 inch of this was unreal too, pure proto Techno.

@johncooper7663

3y↑1

Lol, i think that I still have it in my basement. Wore that thing out.

@oliviatitus3706

SO GRATEFUL for Lethal Amounts consistency with Mark Almond. I'd of never been able to see him live in my adult life otherwise. I love him SO much. So SO soo so much.

@theant2651

My absolute favourite series on yt...amazing work

@antipatsy

3y↑40

You would think after almost 40 years of this song I would be tired of it, and yet

@cincocats320

3y↑1

To my grave this will be one of the top songs of my life. Never gets old.

@aeschafer1

3y↑1

Interesting how many of these bands who became one-hit wonders really railed against that career path, and probably ensured they would have only the one big hit in doing so. Dexy's Midnight Runners, I'm looking at you. If you're really trying to be these very artistic, serious-minded musicians, the machinery of sudden fame must be almost impossible to manage, one way or the other. You can either fight it like Soft Cell and Dexy's, or embrace your hit and change who you are, a la Smashmouth, who went from this really fun third wave ska band to, well, Smashmouth, because they hit with Walkin' on the Sun and then just chased that dragon down.

@mikehydropneumatic2583

3y↑7

I love Tainted Love and Torch, Soft Cell is epic amd very influential.

Next maybe Anne Clark?

@kohhna

3y↑1

I would love to see that personally, thats one of my favourite songs, but this channel tends to do stuff that would be at least a bit better known, like wuld have at least charted. Anne Clarke was very mch underground, brilliant though she was.

Still the man could be persuaded, he has a patreon. If you want that sort of chat with him you should join.

@nothingshouldbewithouteffort

OMG, excellent mention!
Resounding YES to Anne Clark.

@davegreen1915

Another good docu - thanks!
I think the first album was originally released in Ireland as "Non Stop Exotic Cabaret" but can't find confirmation. If anyone knows more please reply 👍