Non stop erotic

In the U. Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret , originally released in Britain in the fall of , 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. 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 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.

In , punk still was the genre that moved the streets of England, but there were also many other interesting things coming up. A year later, the band was signed on a big label: Phonogram Records. Despite the failure, the major label allowed the duo to give it another try. This time it was more than bingo, because Tainted Love made Soft Cell become a worldwide succes. The band recorded its debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret and even if not all reviews were that positive were the journalists drunk or blind? Frustration is a hypernervous song that sounds anything but commercial: the saxophone by David Tofani sounds punky and Marc well frustrated.

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The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the worldwide success of its single " Tainted Love ", a cover version of a soul song by Gloria Jones , which topped charts worldwide and became the best-selling British single of in the United States—as a result of the single's success the album had reported advance orders of more than , copies. The album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a ReVox tape recorder, a borrowed Roland drum machine belonging to Kit Hain , a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED Synclavier , belonging to producer Mike Thorne. Reviews for the album were mixed.