Soft Cell
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Oct 30, 2026
Chris HawkinsHOST
Yeah.
Chris HawkinsHOST
For most people, he was one half of Soft Cell.
Chris HawkinsHOST
Yeah.
Chris HawkinsHOST
How did he come into your life?
ChrisHOST
25 still to go.
ChrisHOST
It started with Tainted Love by Soft Cell at song 2909, and most recently, 867-5309 Jenny by Tommy Two-Tone at song number 1463.
ChrisHOST
1983 has 51 songs on this countdown, and we've played 28 of them, so well past the halfway mark, starting with King of Pain by The Police at song 2686.
ChrisHOST
Remember, that was the one year that took forever to get to the first song in on this countdown.
Northside PeteGUEST
Yeah.
Northside PeteGUEST
I mean, they did a cover of Tainted Love, which wasn't a Soft Cell song.
Northside PeteGUEST
Tainted Love is a cover.
Northside PeteGUEST
That song came out way before Soft Cell.
CharlieHOST
Yeah.
Northside PeteGUEST
Yeah.
Northside PeteGUEST
Whose video are you talking about? Coil.
Northside PeteGUEST
Coil.
MouthyHOST
That was awesome.
MouthyHOST
Okay, the fourth question was, who is the most iconic musician on this list? billy joel prince freddie mercury whitney houston or slash and it was freddie mercury by a landslide 61 followed by prince second at 17 billy joel third at 14 i love that you guys really kind of mirror my answers what i would answer on these questions so hell yes um the what was this the fifth question i think was uh What's your favorite one-hit wonder song of these five? And it was Black Velvet by Alana Miles, I Ran by Flock of Seagulls, What's Going On by Four Non-Blondes, Tainted Love by Soft Cell, and Who Let the Dogs Out by the Baja Man.
MouthyHOST
I try to make these kind of all over the place so I can really see what you guys are into.
MouthyHOST
And the number one answer was Tainted Love by Soft Cell.
MouthyHOST
That was cool.
MouthyHOST
33%.
PushHOST
But I looked this morning, Discogs, they're like seven, eight quid for a triple CD that has got, you know, from that era... pretty much everything, you know, from The Cure, Bunnymen, through to Visage, Yazoo, Japan, blah, blah.
PushHOST
So if you're interested in 12-inch, you want to hear the 12-inch versions of things, and you haven't heard some of these for a long time, because things like Soft Cell, you know, some of those versions are quite different to what you can hear.
PushHOST
So on regular releases, they're worth checking out, those couple of compilations.
PushHOST
I think they're on... family records maybe something like that sounds
Alan CoxHOST
Not long ago, they were getting ready to drop a new album.
Alan CoxHOST
Mark Allmond is the member of Soft Cell who's left.
Alan CoxHOST
And his bandmate, David Ball, died, I guess, last fall.
Alan CoxHOST
But they were, this guy, boy, for as old as he probably is, he looks impossibly smooth.
Alan CoxHOST
He looks like maybe he's had more than his fair share of dermabrasion.
Alan CoxHOST
But the Soft Cell guys were going to go out.
Alan CoxHOST
And they were on tour two weeks before his bandmate died.
Alan CoxHOST
He had died from complications from a fall or something.
Anthony MaroonHOST
Oh, my God.
Anthony MaroonHOST
And I said, he goes, well, could you imagine how many times I've played Tainted Love by Soft Cell? I mean, I know myself being on the radio.
Anthony MaroonHOST
It's three minutes and 15 and it fades out.
Anthony MaroonHOST
So it's one of those songs, you know.
DarrenHOST
Right, shall we play some more music? It's probably not a bad idea, lest I insult all of the listenership here of the playlist.
DarrenHOST
So, let's play something else then, okay? As suggested by Sod's Lawyer, this is Soft Cell.
DarrenHOST
I nearly chose the Einste Zender Neubauten track you suggested, but in the end, it was the Soft Cell.
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DarrenHOST
I did also have a number of suggestions for Tom Waits which had i not played a really good tom waits track last week i might have been inclined to do but uh well you know you have to you have to eek out your weights don't you hey you have to measure your weights accordingly yeah yeah anyway I've got to put my teeth back in my head.
DarrenHOST
I completely forgot what I was going to say.
DarrenHOST
But prior to that was Soft Cell Down in the Subway from 1984 as suggested by Sod's Lawyer.
Corey Ghost HendersonHOST
He took things that were lighter and had more room, and he toned them so far down and made them so incredible.
Corey Ghost HendersonHOST
He did the same thing with Soft Cell, Tainted Love.
Corey Ghost HendersonHOST
Yeah.
Corey Ghost HendersonHOST
He put his spin on it.
Sammy HardOnHOST
No, it is.
Sammy HardOnHOST
So it's Gene Pitney and Mark Arman from Soft Cell.
Sammy HardOnHOST
Really, really interesting.
Sammy HardOnHOST
Mark Arman really wanted him for this.
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