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Selected list of recorded versions
1964 Gloria Jones, northern soul
1976 Gloria Jones with Marc Bolan, glam rock
1981-82 Soft Cell, synthpop
1985 Coil, gothic/industrial
1986 Boppin' Kids on the album Go Wild!, Rockabilly
1990s Tainted Cash, rave music
1993 Inspiral Carpets
1990s Jon K, freestyle music
1990s Señor X
1991 Marc Almond (with Soft Cell)
1992 Flying Pickets, a cappella version
1995 Shades Apart, punk Rock on their Save It album
1999 The Living End, rockabilly-punk rock
1996 Bluekilla, skapunk
1998 Atrocity on album Werk 80, industrial metal
1999 Club 69, electro-house remixes
1999 My Ruin, alternative metal
2000 Mark 'Ruff' Ryder - Joy (Strictly Underground Records, Garage)
2000 Wild Strawberries on album Twist
2000 Head Like A Hole on the album Honky Tonk Jukebox
2001 Marilyn Manson, industrial metal, on album Not Another Teen Movie O.S.T. and Lest We Forget: The Best Of Marilyn Manson. Also as a bonus track on The Golden Age of Grotesque
2001 La Unión, on album Rock en español
2003 Anandi, on album Forever Days
2004 The Hormonauts covered the song for their Stayin' Alive single.
2005 The Pussycat Dolls, Pop
2006 Rihanna samples Soft Cell's cover of "Tainted Love" on the single "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" from her 2006 album A Girl Like Me
2006 Milk Inc., Dance
2006 John B, electrostep version
2006 Lil Scrappy samples a very little bit of the song on his song "Money In The Bank" that featured Young Buck
2006 Paul Young, on album Rock Swings - On the wild side of swing Selected list of recorded versions
1964 Gloria Jones, northern soul
1976 Gloria Jones with Marc Bolan, glam rock
1981-82 Soft Cell, synthpop
1985 Coil, gothic/industrial
1986 Boppin' Kids on the album Go Wild!, Rockabilly
1990s Tainted Cash, rave music
1993 Inspiral Carpets
1990s Jon K, freestyle music
1990s Señor X
1991 Marc Almond (with Soft Cell)
1992 Flying Pickets, a cappella version
1995 Shades Apart, punk Rock on their Save It album
1999 The Living End, rockabilly-punk rock
1996 Bluekilla, skapunk
1998 Atrocity on album Werk 80, industrial metal
1999 Club 69, electro-house remixes
1999 My Ruin, alternative metal
2000 Mark 'Ruff' Ryder - Joy (Strictly Underground Records, Garage)
2000 Wild Strawberries on album Twist
2000 Head Like A Hole on the album Honky Tonk Jukebox
2001 Marilyn Manson, industrial metal, on album Not Another Teen Movie O.S.T. and Lest We Forget: The Best Of Marilyn Manson. Also as a bonus track on The Golden Age of Grotesque
2001 La Unión, on album Rock en español
2003 Anandi, on album Forever Days
2004 The Hormonauts covered the song for their Stayin' Alive single.
2005 The Pussycat Dolls, Pop
2006 Rihanna samples Soft Cell's cover of "Tainted Love" on the single "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" from her 2006 album A Girl Like Me
2006 Milk Inc., Dance
2006 John B, electrostep version
2006 Lil Scrappy samples a very little bit of the song on his song "Money In The Bank" that featured Young Buck
2006 Paul Young, on album Rock Swings - On the wild side of swing
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RafaThe song was written by Ed Cobb, and performed by Gloria Jones for her 1965 single My Bad Boy's Comin' Home. The single and B-Side were both commerical failures until 1973 when it was adopted by UK Northern Soul disco scene. It then became so popular that Jones re-released, again failing to chart.
In 1981 Soft Cell took the song and made the hugely successful cover to the song, it too was not meant to be a main track, and was a melody with another cover, The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go. From there it has been covered by numous bands and groups. These include (as taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_Love);
1965: Gloria Jones, original version
1976: Gloria Jones, on the album Vixen (produced by Marc Bolan)
1981: Soft Cell, on the album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
1985: Coil, on the 12" single Panic/Tainted Love
1992: The Flying Pickets, on the album The Warning
1992: Inspiral Carpets, on the album Ruby Trax
1994: David Benoit, on the album Lost and Found[5]
1995: Shades Apart, on the album Save It
1997: Atrocity, on the album Werk 80
1998: Country Teasers, on the album Back to the Future, or Brideshead Revisited Revisited
1998: The Living End, as a B-side to the single "All Torn Down"
1999: My Ruin, on the album Speak and Destroy
2000: Wild Strawberries, on the album Twist as an unnumbered track
2000: Mark Ruff Ryder sampled Soft Cell's version for his 2-step track Joy.
2001: Marilyn Manson, on the album Not Another Teen Movie Soundtrack
2001: Max Raabe, on the album Superhits Nummer 2
2002: Prozac+, on the album Miodio
2002: Night Shift, on the album Undercovers
2005: The Pussycat Dolls, on the album PCD
2006: Rihanna sampled Soft Cell's version for her third single "SOS"
2006: Milk Inc., on the album Supersized
2006: Alejandra Guzmán, on the soundtrack of the Mexican film "Cansada De Besar Sapos"
2007: Killwhitneydead, on the album Nothing Less Nothing More
2008: Danny Noriega performed the song on American Idol
2008: The Lost Fingers, on the album Lost in the 80s
2009: David Guetta and Akon use similar melody in their song "Sexy Bitch"
2009: My Brightest Diamond, on the album Guilt by Association Vol. 2
2009: The Pigeon Detectives, as a one-off single for the charity "Cash for Kids"
2009: Blackmailers, on the album Contrafact
2010: Flo Rida sampled Soft Cell's version for "Zoosk Girl" (featuring T-Pain)
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