Tainted Love~~Gloria Jones VS Soft Cell

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SOFT CELL 21
GLORIA JONES 15


♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

NO YOU CANT VOTE FOR MARYLIN MANSON OR PUSSYCAT DOLLS OR ANY OTHER RETARDED VERSIONS

♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

j/k those versions aren't retarded but they're not part of this poll

♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:34 (seventeen years ago)

So much for my write-in vote for Coil, then.

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:36 (seventeen years ago)

really?

♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:37 (seventeen years ago)

Seriously, though. Just as Aretha Franklin did for "Respect," Coil took an innocuous love song and infused it with the pressing social urgency of the times, that being gay culture and the AIDs crisis, and completely made the song their own in the process. I can only listen to that version once in a blue moon, b/c it is just so fucking crushing. Here, I'll vote for Soft Cell.

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:41 (seventeen years ago)

I realize that the Soft Cell version was likely also directed at the AIDs crisis, but it is still an upbeat dance song (nothing wrong with that or anything), but Coil took the same lyrics and made them sound like death itself.

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:44 (seventeen years ago)

Soft Cell's version was a bit too early too be about the AIDS crisis. AIDs was only reported for the first time in 1981, the same year that single came out, and the crisis mentality only began a couple of years later.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

Wow, I did not realize it came out that early. It was a bit ahead of its time sonically, then, no?

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:55 (seventeen years ago)

Not really, for 1981. Human League, OMD, etc not to mention Suicide & Kraftwerk.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:09 (seventeen years ago)

lol I suppose I need to pay a little more attention to chronology (I mean Kraftwerk, sure) but I was also unaware that HL & OMD (both bands I like & whose records I own) were releasing music that early.

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:10 (seventeen years ago)

Soft Cell, duh. Bonus points for "Where Did Our Love Go?" extended mix.

Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago)

I was about to say I'd vote Soft Cell on the condition it's NOT the "Where Did Our Love Go?" medley mix. ha!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)

Human League's first album came out in 1979.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

It's worth noting, re Coil, that Mark Almond appears in the video for their version. As the Angel of Death, no less.

I'm not voting as I can't pick between the versions. They're both amazing.

Enrique (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:52 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

I was about to say I'd vote Soft Cell on the condition it's NOT the "Where Did Our Love Go?" medley mix. ha!

― Johnny Fever

!!! what could you possibly have against the "where did our love go" version?

aaron d.g., Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:40 (seventeen years ago)

I hate 9.9 out of every 10 medley singles.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:46 (seventeen years ago)

Not just singles, but medleys in general.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:47 (seventeen years ago)

Didn't the Inspirial Carpets cover this too?

Popture, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 08:00 (seventeen years ago)

i thought i loved the soft cell version, right up until i heard the gloria jones og, and it's just ridiculously better, and i realised that had i been familiar with it first i'd probably be pretty pissed off at soft cell.

lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:50 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Gloria Jones is far the better verzh which will make her crushing defeat by Soft Cell here all the more tsk-worthy.

I Was a Teenage Armchair Hongro Fan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

while we're here, does anyone have further gloria jones recommendations?

lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

BOMP BOMP

The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 11:01 (seventeen years ago)

As Momus would say, a false binary opposition...

But Soft Cell 12" with Tainted Dub for me.

Bob Six, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:42 (seventeen years ago)

Gloria Jones version is totally fresh.

u s steel, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

Would have said Soft Cell, but last time I went dancing they played the Gloria Jones vers and it seriously sounded completely amazing.

Plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 14:16 (seventeen years ago)

both great obv; Coil too

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

Both great, prefer Soft Cell, prefer the medley.

served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

unfair poll

meisenfek, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

21 wrong people :(

lex pretend, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

you're only wrong if you don't love both

Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

^^^listen to the man

The Reverend, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

ILM in getting it wrong shocker

♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 08:48 (seventeen years ago)

Really.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

Even Gloria Jones has said that the Soft Cell version is better!

Mind you, what does she know...

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 10:10 (seventeen years ago)


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