The video for the remix, directed by Peter Christopherson of Hipgnosis , features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars. Christopherson's band Coil had covered " Tainted Love " in , with a music video that included a cameo appearance by Almond.
It was released in It was later included on the band's following album The Golden Age of Grotesque as a bonus track. Released in the UK on March 23, , it is the band's biggest hit in that country. The song entered the UK singles chart at 6 the week before its official release date, as a result of substantial import sales. The song reached its peak position of 5 the following week, and spent a total of 22 weeks in the Top Award for Best Single in The video for Marilyn Manson's cover shows Manson bringing several goth friends to a high school party.
It features several characters from the film Not Another Teen Movie. It also features Joey Jordison , the drummer from Slipknot , and Tim Skold , who was not a member of Marilyn Manson's band at the time.
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Ed Cobb. The song was originally an obscure Northern soul track written by Ed Cobb formerly of male vocal quartet The Four Preps , and recorded by American soul singer Gloria Jones who would later go on to become the partner of T Rex frontman Marc Bolan.
The pair took the song apart and completely reconstructed it into a timeless electronic pop classic, which is now regarded as the definitive version of the track. Climbing to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this week in , Tainted Love held onto the top spot for two weeks and also reached the summit in more than a dozen other countries.
English vocal-and-synth duo Soft Cell became aware of the song through its status as a UK " Northern soul " hit. In , DJ Ian "Frank" Dewhirst recalled he put "Tainted Love" on when Marc Almond, the duo's singer who worked as a cloakroom guy, came to ask if it was Jones' recording, before asking to tape it. Some time after, Soft Cell began performing the song in their live setlist, choosing it instead of Frankie Valli 's " The Night ".
There, Soft Cell's version was recorded in a day and a half with Almond's first vocal take being used on the record. It was good for the dance floor, but I didn't like the record The Soft Cell recording features a slower tempo than Jones' version and is in the key of G rather than the original C to match Marc Almond's lower voice.
Synthesizers and rhythm machines replace the original's guitars, bass, drums, and horns. Phonogram Records chose to release "Tainted Love" in as Soft Cell's second single their first was "Memorabilia", which did not chart. Buoyed by the then-dominant new wave sound of the time, "Tainted Love" became a major hit in the US during the Second British Invasion , with the song spending a then-record breaking [12] 43 weeks on the US Billboard Hot It appeared to peak at number 64 and fell to number on February After spending a second week at number , it started climbing again.
It took 19 weeks to crack the American Top 40 and reached number 8 during the summer of
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