Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on Oct 23, 2023 1:58:26 GMT -5
Never knew that this was even a cover!
#46 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs
It’s usually a curse for an artist to land their one major Hot 100 hit with a cover, a burden to bear for their whole career. But though U.K. New Romantic duo Soft Cell deserved far more than the one stateside hit, its version of Gloria Jones’ ’60s Northern soul blast “Tainted Love” was so definitive, so stunning and so unmistakably Soft Cell that it alone was enough to ensure them pop immortality. Rather than try to match the original’s frenzied energy, the duo slowed it to a saunter, sunk their teeth into the tortured lyrics and added a pair of sonic signatures: a sonar synth echo and a mid-verse double-clap that no one in history has ever heard without banging along to. The result was a recording so indelible that it’s since been sampled, lifted and recreated more times than all but a handful of ’80s pop originals. — A.U.
Some of the icons seen in this theme are being used pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright owners of these icons are Webdesigner Depot (the announcement icon) and Iconshock (the microphone icons on the forum pages, star icon, and poll icon). The microphone icons seen on the home page are being used pursuant to a Freeware Non-Commercial License with McDo Design (Susumu Yoshida). In accordance with these licenses, redistribution of the icons is not permitted. Please visit the owners' respective sites, linked above, if you wish to use these images.