Tainted Love

~ Recording by Soft Cell

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.13Tainted Love2:39Soft CellMedia Markt Collection: The 80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE1998-10-08
Brunswick News565 655-2
2.18Tainted Love2:39Soft CellCelebration 2000Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1999-11-22
News of the World (UK newspaper), Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)545 066-2
1.1Tainted Love2:39Soft CellFriendsReunited.co.uk: 42 Classroom Classics From the 80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2003-01-27
Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)069 634-2, 069 635-2, 069 636-2, 069.634-2
1.2Tainted Love2:35Soft CellNon‐Stop Erotic Cabaret (deluxe edition, limited edition, numbered)Soft CellAlbum
  • JP2010-02-24
Mercury Records (or just “Mercury”; a UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)UICY-94428, UICY-94428/9, UICY-94429
1.17Tainted Love2:37Soft CellThe 80s, Part 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • IE2014-07-11
  • GB2014-07-11
Sony Music CG
1.6Tainted Love2:38Soft CellPride: Music From and Inspired by the Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • IE2014-09-15
  • GB2014-09-15
Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)5354668, 5354669, 5354670
1.6Tainted Love2:37Soft CellEGB: Las tardes de discoteca: Sueltas y agarradasVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • ES2016-11-18
Warner Music Spain
3.7Tainted Love2:38Soft CellHouse Party: Latest & GreatestVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation

Relationships

engineer:Paul Hardiman
producer:Mike Thorne (UK producer & keyboardist)
mixer:Harvey Goldberg
electronic instruments and other instruments:Dave Ball (UK electronic musician, part of Soft Cell)
background vocals:Vicious Pink
vocals:Marc Almond (English pop singer and songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Mercury Records Ltd. (London) (for copyrights use only) (in 1981)
recorded at:Advision Studios in Fitzrovia
has remixes:Tainted Love (Dakeyne remix)
Tainted Love (Jamie Jones 4Z remix)
sampled by:Come Back Down by Trevor Something
S.O.S. (radio edit) by Rihanna (Barbadian R&B/pop singer)
mash-ups:Chwaraeon Soft by Y Lladron
S.O.S. It’s Weeping Tainted Men (Rihanna vs. Soft Cell vs. Weather Girls) by DJ Schmolli
Strange Moody Tainted Love (Soft Cell vs. Prat All Stars) by DRA’man (mashup artist)
Tainted Jesus (Soft Cell vs. Depeche Mode) (part of “Bootie Goes Goth” DJ-mix) by DJ Lobsterdust
Bang Bang by E-603 (order: 12)
music videos:Tainted Love
part of:VH1’s 100 Greatest One‐Hit Wonders of the ’80s (number: 5) (order: 5)
Paste: The 50 Greatest NON One-Hit Wonders of All Time (number: 8) (order: 8)
New York Post: 100 Greatest Covers (2007) (number: 10) (order: 10)
Pitchfork: The Story of Goth in 33 Songs (order: 27)
VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s (compiled in 2006) (number: 33) (order: 33)
Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 46) (order: 46)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/0HpukCAAHgTFpQ4eAZFr9z [info]
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q51wrTPUlHfDHzMtvsPt3 [info]
https://open.spotify.com/track/4EeN4nZiGWLVUo4fv9Hqjm [info]
https://www.deezer.com/track/2310196775 [info]
https://www.deezer.com/track/2318055485 [info]
https://www.deezer.com/track/2319591225 [info]
https://www.deezer.com/track/2319593015 [info]
streaming page:https://tidal.com/track/297957434 [info]
https://tidal.com/track/298886842 [info]
recording of:Tainted Love (cover)

Related works

Tainted Love

lyricist and composer:Ed Cobb
publisher:Burlington Music Co., Ltd.
Embassy Music Corporation
sub-publisher:ミュージック・セールス (Music Sales, Japan, subsidiary of Shinko Music Entertainment)
later parody versions:Faithless Love
Tainted Pub
later translated versions:Böser Sex
Falso amor
music quoted in:SOS