Released originally in 1982 and remastered recently with the addition of 8 bonus tracks, this effectively sums up the 1st stage of Soft Cell's career and is better than any best of compilation on the market.
The album highlights marc Almond's and Dave Ball's twin obsessions of good time disco ... Read review
Disc 1 Frustration Tainted Love Seedy Films Youth Sex Dwarf Entertain Me Chips On My ... more
Shoulder Bedsitter Secret Life Say Hello Wave Goodbye Persuasion Man Could Get Lost Where Did Our Love Go Memorabilia Facility Girls Fun City Torch Insecure Me What So Disc 2 Memorabilia Where Did Our Love Go What Man Could Get Lost Chips On My Shoulder Sex Dwarf Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go Memorabilia What So Torch Insecure Me Tainted Dub/Where Did Our Love Go Bedsitter Facility Girls Say Hello Wave Goodbye
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As with so many groups of their time and place--synthesizer-obsessed England in the early ... more
'80s--Soft Cell's first album is also their best. NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET is a self-consciously seedy but nonetheless delightful excursion into knowing decadence. The artifice is plain--Marc Almond's coyly melodramatic vocals and Dave Ball's witty synths suggest that you shouldn't take this album seriously for a moment--but the songs are mostly strong enough to make this a satisfying album. The hyperspeed "Frustration" careens directly to the glorious "Tainted Love," an archetype of '80s pop music unmatched by anything else the duo ever did, though "Bedsitter," "Sex Dwarf" and the blatantly sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" come close.
Advantages: Indispensible 80's pop Disadvantages: none
Released originally in 1982 and remastered recently with the addition of 8 bonus tracks, this effectively sums up the 1st stage of Soft Cell's career and is better than any best of compilation on the market.
The album highlights marc Almond's and Dave Ball's twin obsessions of good time disco dancing and seedy erotica merging them into a compelling blend.
Musically the songs are driven by Dave Ball's synths which hammer repetative ... ...over which marc sings in a distinctive, sometimes off key, torch song style about normal life and soho perversions.
The key song is obviously tainted love a monsster hit at the time , the album proper also contains the hit singles Bedsitter and Say hello wave goodbye whilst Torch and what are included in the bonus tracks - all unforgettable songs.
Of the other tracks from the album sex dwarf and entertain me are the best the best with ... more
Released originally in 1982 and remastered recently with the addition of 8 bonus tracks, this effectively sums up the 1st stage of Soft Cell's career and is better than any best of compilation on the market. The album highlights marc Almond's and Dave Ball's twin obsessions of good time disco dancing and seedy erotica merging them into a compelling blend. Musically the songs are driven by Dave Ball's synths which hammer repetative rythmns adding lighter flourishes to make you want to dance over which marc sings in a distinctive, sometimes off key, torch song style about normal life and soho perversions. The key song is obviously tainted love a monsster hit at the time , the album proper also contains the hit singles Bedsitter and Say hello wave goodbye whilst Torch and what are included in the bonus tracks - all unforgettable songs. Of the other tracks from the album sex dwarf and entertain me are the best the best with marc's lyrics outstanding. From the bonus tracks Whdid our love go is the best - this is pitched as tainted love and indeed was it's b-side and mixed with tainted love is the best 122 single ever in my opinion
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Product details
Title
Non Stop Erotic Cabaret [Remastered]
Performer
Soft Cell
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Synth Pop
Release Date
06/1996
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1981
Label / Distributor
Some Bizarre/Mercury / Universal Music
Engineer
Don Wershba
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
731453259522
Catalogue Number
5325952
SPAR code
ADD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Soft Cell: Marc Almond (vocals); David Ball (various instruments). Additional personnel: David Tofani (saxophone, clarinet); The Vicious Pink Phenomena (background vocals). Producer: Mike Thorne. Reissue producer: Bill Levenson. Recorded at Camden Cell Studios and Advision, London, England. Includes liner notes by Brian Chin. Digitally remastered by Jeff Willens (2001, Universal Mastering East). As with so many groups of their time and place--synthesizer-obsessed England in the early '80s--Soft Cell's first album is also their best. NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET is a self-consciously seedy but nonetheless delightful excursion into knowing decadence. The artifice is plain--Marc Almond's coyly melodramatic vocals and Dave Ball's witty synths suggest that you shouldn't take this album seriously for a moment--but the songs are mostly strong enough to make this a satisfying album. The hyperspeed "Frustration" careens directly to the glorious "Tainted Love," an archetype of '80s pop music unmatched by anything else the duo ever did, though "Bedsitter," "Sex Dwarf" and the blatantly sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" come close.
Album Reviews
CMJ (1/6/03, p.12) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time"
Titles on disc 1
1.
Frustration
2.
Tainted Love
3.
Seedy Films
4.
Youth
5.
Sex Dwarf
6.
Entertain Me
7.
Chips On My Shoulder
8.
Bedsitter
9.
Secret Life
10.
Say Hello Wave Goodbye
11.
Where Did Our Love Go
12.
Memorabilia
13.
Facility Girls
14.
Fun Fun Fun
15.
Torch
16.
Insecure Me
17.
What
18.
So
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