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Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981) [2021, Japan]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 23 Feb 2023 21:07:25

"Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" is the debut studio album by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, released on 27 November 1981 by Some Bizzare Records. The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the success of its lead single, a cover version of Gloria Jones's song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the best-selling British single of 1981. In the United States as a result of the single's success, the album had reported advance orders of more than 200,000 copies. The album spawned two additional top-five singles in the UK: "Bedsitter" and "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye". CMJ New Music Report included "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" on a list of The Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time. American magazine Out placed the album at #66 on their list of The 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums (of All Time). It was also included in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

~Wikipedia

In the U.S., Soft Cell, the British duo of singer Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball, was a classic one-hit wonder, that hit being the remake of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love," which dominated dance clubs and eventually peaked in the pop Top Ten with its synth-pop sound and Almond's plaintive vocal in 1981-1982. In the U.K., the group not only had a longer career, but also influenced a raft of similar performers. Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, originally released in Britain in the fall of 1981, contained both the band's first hit and its follow-up, "Bedsitter," its title referring to what in America would be called a studio apartment. (A third U.K. Top Five hit, "Say Hello Wave Goodbye," emerged from the LP.) At full album length, lyricist Almond's primary preoccupation, only suggested in "Tainted Love," was spelled out; this was a theme album about aberrant sexuality, a tour of a red-light district. The point was well made on "Sex Dwarf," with its oft-repeated chorus "Isn't it nice/Sugar and spice/Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?" Songs like "Seedy Films," "Entertain Me," and "Secret Life" expanded upon the subject. The insistent beats taken at steady dance tempos and the chilling electronic sounds conjured by Ball emphasized Almond's fascination with deviance; it almost seemed as though the album had been designed to be played in topless bars. British listeners saw through Almond's pretense or were amused by him, or both; more puritanical Americans tended to disapprove, which probably limited the group's long-term success stateside. But the music was undeniably influential. The 2002 CD reissue added two lengthy 12" single mixes of "Tainted Love," one of them a medley with the old Supremes hit "Where Did Our Love Go," the other a dub version.

~Review by William Ruhlmann

Release of the album: 1981, November, 27 [LP Some Bizzare, Cat.# Some Bizzare, UK]
Release of this CD: 2021, September, 22 [CD Mercury/Universal Music (Japan), Cat.# UICY-79696 / EAN: 4988031444290]
A Mercury Records Release, ℗&© 1981 Universal Music Operations Ltd.
International / USM, a Universal Music Company.
Marketed and Distributed by Universal Music LLC.
Made in Japan

Credits:

Artwork [Padded Cell] – Huw Feather
Backing Vocals – Vicious Pink Phenomena
Engineer – Don Wershba (tracks: 1, 3 to 10), Paul Hardiman (tracks: 2)
Other [Make Up] – Vivien P
Photography By – Ashworth
Producer – Mike Thorne

Tracklist:

01. Frustration (04:11)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
02. Tainted Love (02:34)
(Ed Cobb)
03. Seedy Films (05:04)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
04. Youth (03:15)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
05. Sex Dwarf (05:17)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
06. Entertain Me (03:35)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
07. Chips On My Shoulder (04:06)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
08. Bedsitter (03:35)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
09. Secret Life (03:38)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)
10. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (05:27)
(Dave Ball, Marc Almond)

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Official DR value: DR12

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