Leftover #2 from the marathon 👍

This was the subpar remix for their 1991 release. The 1981 original 12" mix that segues with "Where Did Our Love Go?" is the version people should react to.

This was a HUGE dance club hit, so good to hear it again!

I remember there being a version by Soft Cell where at the very end of Tainted Love, they went right into singing their version of the Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go? It sounded really good - it isn’t on the version you just played. That version is on KZfaq as well.

It isn't the original promo video for this songg by Soft Cell and is a remix version released much later :-)

This is the club version, faster than the original as you thought. Great tune!

Fantastic track. Over here in the UK during the Eighties this was huge and was extremely popular, not just with the young but also the parents too. The clubs always played it, the crowd demanded it and the crowd all sang along in unison. Brilliant days and brings back great memories. 😊

Im a Virgo as well, Ty. 9/18.... I love the late 70s and the 80s. I grew up during that time and it was the best!

classic 80's synth

This was huge in the 80’s! Loved the new wave scene-My kids can’t handle thinking 8:09 of their almost 70 year old mom in zebra spandex and purple hair. They handle my hippie 70’s look better 🤣🤣

There is an extended version with Where Did Our Love Go?

Brings back some fun memories 😀

Ty, I'm a Virgo as well. And the 80s was the best music and decade to be in your teens 💯

One of biggest hits of all time

Those 80s videos were hysterical!😂

Hey fellow Virgo! Always great seeing y'all's "guest" 😊 This song screams The 80s! Thanks guys.

❤Everyone loves this song. Even Marilyn Manson covered this song.

❤ I so love this song! Thank you for covering it. Great to see you Ty! 😊

Great song guys!

All right, guys, here’s what you need to know: The answer to the trivia question WHAT SONG KNOCKED “HEY JUDE” OUT OF THE TOP SPIT FOR MOST CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE BOLLBOARD TOP 300. And you’re correct, the second song, or the addendum was called “Where did our love go?” and was the second half of this double song. TAINTED LOVE/WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? was only released initially as the TAINTED LOVE half. As it was fading down the charts to its eventual place off the charts, a funny thing happened; it was being played in the dance clubs with WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? Attached to it, and the “new” double song started its climb all the way back up the charts like 13 months after it peaked. Because it never officially dropped off the top 300, it’s rebound caused it to pass “HEY JUDE” for top all time!

Had many hits in UK… all of them brilliant!

😊💜 Classic 80's dance club song too!! 😊🎶💜

Great song from the early 80's! Great to see Tyler again!

I like this song more now than when it was first released.

Fun stuff with the one liners from the guys on this video. It seems like there were several "one hit wonder" groups in the "New Wave" era from the early 1980s out of the UK that did covers of 1960s American songs with more updated arrangements. Personally, my favorite from that era is "There's Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes. It is simply a very good song and the cover does a nice job of paying homage to the original but also presenting the song in a fresh light. I would strongly encourage that song/version as a future video. Again, good to see "the dream team" back in action as their takes helped make this a very worthwhile video.

Entire album excellent

This may be the best cover ever. I put it right up there with the Beatles cover of "Twist and Shout". When this came out I was a junior in high school (at Moore in the 502) and I didn't know for years that it was a cover. Seems Gloria Jones' original wasn't that big of a hit here. It at least didn't get much air play on the oldies stations I listened to back in the day (shout out to WRKA). She ended up singing backup for T. Rex and had a romantic relationship with Marc Bolan with whom she had a son.

I didn't know it was a cover. And I never saw the vidoe (not an MTV fan). Thanks for the review. Enjoyed it.

That will be interesting. I think it's the song we all heard but never actually stayed with it for longer. All best to you guys!

🔥🔥 Looking forward to this one

Hey from Cincinnati!!!

If I remember correctly, Marilyn Manson did his own creepy version of this which is actually pretty good.

“Sex Dwarf” off this album is a synth masterpiece.

It is so eighties...I love it. 😁

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Yup. The boys were finding the dressing up box. So many massive 80s hits that pushed the gay cause into the spotlight and had a huge influence on the struggle for gay rights. And you didn't have to be gay to enjoy them because they were mostly all total bangers. This is a cover version but check their own song, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. Top of the lot for me though is The Communards single Small-town Boy. Check it out. It's all in the lyrics, same with Soft Cell. Us straight chaps danced our socks off back then

These guys got more than one hit in the United States... But in Europe they have many hits. They're more popular outside of the United States. then within.

Please react to "Vehicle" by Ides of March. OHW❤

This is the best version

Very eighties, fantastic

Interesting thoughts guys! This is catchy to me. Not as long as I thought.

I get it exactly. Is easy to like things. "But not that much". Fits this reaction perfectly.

Nick you are very correct the original is a bit steadier this was an awful dance version

"This song is for horny people." "Grotesque" "Toxic" "Spoiled" "Expired"--You guys are HILARIOUS!!!

Yep this is the correct speed. But the original has a heavy bass. In clubs the bass was the real hook. This is so high end and tinny it gives the impression of going faster than it really is.

My go to karaoke song 😂

Spandau Ballet- song "True". Surprise sax.

Would be better to review the original Soft Cell version that was played on the radio. This sped up version in this video is a mess.

In the video they were playing with the latest tech of the time that was really high tech in 1981 they weren’t the only ones everybody did it

Great tune sounds so much like the band Squeeze so much so that I thought it was done by Squeeze!

Have a listen to mark almond and gene Pitney , something’s got hold of my heart

Not the original Soft Cell - sounds like a newer production

Say hello, Wave goodbye, theirs or David Gray's version.

Definitely faster!!

Yep 🤣🤣🤣 looks tainted to me 🤣

Check out the Gloria Jones original version of Tainted Love from 1964.

The '81 version is so much better.

There is an urban myth about the lead singer of this band. It’s all I can think about when I hear this song 😩

Y’all had me 😂 ✌🏽

oh and yes this version has a more prominent dance bass that the original did not I believe. Over all makes the track way more cheesy

But, have you heard Sex Dwarf? 😂

You are correct - this is sped up.

Try the Marlyn Manson version ‼️🔥

"Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (1981) may have been a more interesting choice ...

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche

'Soft Cell' is a riff on 'hard sell'....geddit?

Nick you are right... There is something off about this version/video. This like remastered or something. Not a fan of this version. The original has a song Baby Baby by the Supremes in it. I have never seen the video. The invisible dot guys are creepy. I like the (original) song - super catchy and super 80s. Another song most everyone has heard

I vote for "expired" as the next word. 😆 "Let's face it. This is a song for horny people." I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW - that I LOVED this song - as A 10 YR. OLD LITTLE GIRL! - Would you care to take back those words please! 😅

Try Nik Kershaw wouldn't it be good reminds me of this video too

This song was a cover of a 1964 tune by Gloria Jones. So even the '81 radio version was never original. Ah yes, the '80s, the decade of cover songs.

I’ve heard the song countless times, including when it was a hit back in ‘82. Never saw the video ‘til now, and it didn’t do a thing for the song other than distract.

You just love saying the word "TAINT" over and over again, Nick. Maybe some therapy is needed there. 🤔🧐 "Tainted Love" was a humongous hit, both internationally and nationally. (I believe this song was #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for all of 1982. This song reminds me SOmuch of my first semester in high school, cuz that's when the song came-out. (Yes, I'm early-Gen-X.) Loved this song the very first time I heard it, and I've not stopped loving it since then. Even after I became a Metalhead a year and a half later, I have never not loved this song. Still do and always will. ❤ This song became a major gay anthem, too. I absolutely love this song. ❤️

This is not the version we heard in the 80s, I dont like it at all, but originally it was fire

Soft Tainted Love Cell

this is the normal version

Ya it’s always been up beat! Dance song

You know you guys only did6 Band Maid songs. You still got more than 110 to go. Do you want some suggestions

No video games them, well maybe Pac-Man

Bro pls can react to enginne no.9 by deftones? If You guys likes passeger i know You gonna love it

yep, you could hate this song, but when it comes on you will sing it and even move sometimes.... lol The original with them signing is better.

Spoiled Love? 😂

This isn't the original radio version which was better.

This isn't the hit version of the song! Here's the 1981 hit version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eamEddiAzcu5oHk.html

Soft Jail Cell, like in padded cell....

I like miore the Top of the Pop version from 1981😊not this

I hope it's the long version!

This shockingly horrible video , which I never seen, makes me not like this song as much as I once did LOL

Its a great song. I think when you review a song using the associated video you end up really reviewing the video and not so much the music. Nothing like really listening to a song and analyzing it that way.

Not the original version

Yeah, the repetitive aspect is what makes it club-worthy, or a "bar song." It was a huge song in its time, not something I'd visit now. By the way, you kept saying "tainted" and all I could think of is "t'aint." Look up the slang of that, you "t'aint" repeaters.

one hit wonder, i think not

Bah, they only played half the song.

Soft cell had a number of hits and good albums so not really one hit wonders

This is why you should never rely on KZfaq. This must be the most awful mix of a great song in the history of mankind.

nope, same speed as always................

Marilyn Manson's version was slower, The 80s was fast, it will never hit the chart if it's slow imo

Love the song, but the music video sucks... 😵

Never slower

Not the correct version :(

This version isn’t the good one !