Soft Cell – The Very Best Of Soft Cell

Soft Cell – The Very Best Of Soft Cell
Release: April 16, 2002 | Label: Universal Music TV Campaign Division
Number: 586 834-2 | Genre: New Wave, Pop | Mono/Stereo: 2 Channel
EAC Rip | Included: EAC Log + AccurateRip Log + CUE + Flac + Covers
RAR 3% Rec. | 556 MB | RS.com

Album Notes

The Very Best of Soft Cell is an official compilation album by Soft Cell. The album was released on April 16, 2002 and was approved by the band; it includes most of the hit singles and also some b-sides, such as Insecure Me (in a newly edited version) and It’s A Mug’s Game. The song Numbers was also considerably shortened for this release, but it’s AA side Barriers is missing. Two new songs, Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime and Divided Soul, and two brand new remixes of Tainted Love and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye were also included. ~Wikipedia

Biography:

A synth-pop duo famed for its uniquely sleazy electronic sound, art students Marc Almond and Dave Ball formed Soft Cell in Leeds, England in 1980. Originally, vocalist Almond and synth player Ball teamed to compose music for theatrical productions, and as Soft Cell, their live performances continued to draw heavily on the pair’s background in drama and the visual arts. A self-financed EP titled Mutant Moments brought the duo to the attention of Some Bizzare label head Stevo, who enlisted Daniel Miller to produce their underground hit single “Memorabilia” the following year.

It was the next Soft Cell effort, 1981’s “Tainted Love,” that brought the duo to international prominence; written by the Four Preps’ Ed Cobb and already a cult favorite thanks to Gloria Jones’ soulful reading, the song was reinvented as a hypnotic electronic dirge which became the year’s best-selling British single, as well as a major hit abroad. The group’s debut LP, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, was also enormously successful, and was followed by the 1982 remix collection Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.

While 1983’s The Art of Falling Apart proved as popular as its predecessors, the LP’s title broadly hinted at the internal problems plaguing the duo; prior to the release of 1984’s This Last Night in Sodom, Soft Cell had already broken up. Almond immediately formed the electro-soul unit Marc and the Mambas; another group, Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners, followed before the singer finally embarked on a solo career in the late ’80s. After a number of years of relative inactivity, Ball later resurfaced in the techno outfit the Grid. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Track Listing:
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01. Memorabilia
02. Tainted Love
03. Where Did Our Love Go?
04. Bedsitter
05. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
06. Sex Dwarf
07. Torch
08. Insecure Me
09. What?
10. Where The Heart Is
11. It’s A Mugs Game
12. Numbers
13. Loving You Hating Me
14. Soul Inside
15. Down In The Subway
16. Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime
17. Divided Soul
18. Tainted Love (2XS Remix)
19. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Almighty Radio Edit)
Total Time: 01:19:29
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