Music video by Soft Cell performing Tainted Love. The video for the version, directed by Peter Christopherson, features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars.
it is love, actually.
Tainted Love features a teenage boy trying to impress a girl at her window by pretending to play the guitar and singing the song while the band actually plays it nearby, A crowd gathers by the band start mosh dancing around them. A great Motown classic. because although you would risk your life for them and think of them all the time (even in your dreams), you can't be with them forever. love you have for a person that is so deep and feels like it should last forever, but it can't for some complicated, unfair reason. It was originally written for, and sung by Gloria Jones in 1964. Watch the original video for Tainted Love on YouTube Marc Almond, singer. The girl goes outside and finds out about who is really playing the song.
It can be found on youtube. Most Tainted Love covers are quite short, this version takes 5:55 minutes on CD, and almost 7 minutes in the promo video. Marc Almond, who made "Tainted Love" so famous due to his Soft Cell version, also briefly occurs in the video, which is as sombre as the song. (C) 1981 Some Bizarre #SoftCell #TaintedLove #Vevo About Tainted Love "Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists. Christopherson's band Coil had covered "Tainted Love" in 1985, with a music video that included a cameo appearance by Almond. John Balance featured in the video, Christopherson directed. Soft Cell were an experimental electro band, more in keeping with Suicide or Throbbing Gristle than the Top 40. So when you have only a certain amount time left with the person you love, you know that it is tainted love.