Tainted Love
~ Song
Relationships
| lyricist and composer: | Ed Cobb |
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| publisher: | Burlington Music Co., Ltd. Embassy Music Corporation |
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| sub-publisher: | ミュージック・セールス (Music Sales, Japan, subsidiary of Shinko Music Entertainment) |
| lyrics page: | https://genius.com/Milk-inc-tainted-love-lyrics [info] |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/646 [info] |
| Songfacts: | https://www.songfacts.com/facts/soft-cell/tainted-love [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q708273 [info] |
| later parody versions: | Faithless Love Tainted Pub |
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| later translated versions: | Böser Sex Falso amor |
| music quoted in: | SOS |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1965 | Tainted Love (1965 original recording) | Gloria Jones | 2:12 | |
| 1976 | Tainted Love (1976 re-recording) | Gloria Jones | 2:39 | |
| 1981-05-28 | Tainted Love (live, 1981-05-28: Amnesia Club, Leeds, UK) | cover and live | Soft Cell | ?:?? |
| 1981-08-13 | Tainted Love (13/08/81) (Top of the Pops) | cover | Soft Cell | ?:?? |
| 1981 | Tainted Love (aborted 1981 studio take) | Soft Cell | 1:06 | |
| 1981 | Tainted Love (original 1981 Daniel Miller demo) | demo | Soft Cell | 2:46 |
| 1992-09-30 | Tainted Love (live, 1992-09-30: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK) | cover and live | Marc Almond | 3:56 |
| 1997-12-30 | Tainted Love (live, 1997-12-30: Lorne Falls Festival Site, Lorne, Australia) | cover and live | The Living End | 4:15 |
| 1997-12-30 | Tainted Love (live, 1997-12-30: The Falls Festival 1997, Surf Coast Shire, Lorne, Australia) | cover and live | The Living End | 4:27 |
| 2001-05-27 | Tainted Love (27/5/01) (Top Of The Pops Reunion) | cover | Soft Cell | ?:?? |
| 2001 | Tainted Love (live from ‘Top of the Pops’ 1981 Reunion, 2001) | cover and live | Soft Cell | 3:14 |
| 2002-11-02 | Tainted Love (live, 2002‐11‐02: Tinitus Festival, Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm, Sweden) | cover and live | Front 242 | 3:03 |
| 2003-06-24 | Tainted Love (live, 2003‐06‐24: Lisbon, Portugal) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? |
| 2003-09-15 | Tainted Love (live, 2003‐09‐15: Vodafone Arena, Melbourne, Australia) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? |
| 2003-10-28 | Tainted Love (live, 2003-10-28: Freakers Ball, St. Louis, MO, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:31 |
| 2003-11-28 | Tainted Love (live, 2003‐11‐28: Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:38 |
| 2003 | Tainted Love (live, 2003) | cover and live | Soft Cell | 3:39 |
| 2003 | Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? (live, 2003) | cover, live and medley | Soft Cell | 9:12 |
| 2004-11-01 | Tainted Love (cut) (live, 2004‐11‐01: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 1:54 |
| 2004 | Tainted Like You | cover and partial | Smash-Up Derby | 3:34 |
| 2005-02-09 | Tainted Love (live, 2005-02-09: Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:47 |
| 2005-06-14 | Tainted Love (live, 2005‐06‐14: Bercy, Paris, France) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 4:05 |
| 2005-07-09 | Tainted Love (live, 2005-07-09: Grand Rokk, Reykjavík, Iceland) | cover and live | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes | 2:29 |
| 2007 | Tainted Love 07 | cover | Speedmaster Project | 5:35 |
| 2009-07-25 | Tainted Love (live, 2009-07-25: The Latern Theatre, Sheffield, England) | live | The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican | 3:04 |
| 2018-09-30 | Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? (live at 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018) | cover, live and medley | Soft Cell | 7:43 |
| 2021-11 | Tainted Love (live, 2021-11: Eventim Apollo, London, UK) | cover and live | Soft Cell | 2:59 |
| 2021-11 | Tainted Love (live at Eventim Apollo London, November 2021) | cover and live | Soft Cell | 2:59 |
| 2021 | Tainted Love | cover | Harrison | 2:44 |
| 2021 | Tainted Love - Extended | cover | Harrison | 3:39 |
| 2023 | Tainted Love (2023 Version) | cover | Soft Cell | 3:01 |
| 2023 | Tainted Love (New 2023 version) | cover | Soft Cell | 3:01 |
| 2024 | Tainted Love 2024 (Celebrating 60 Years) | cover | Gloria Jones | 3:00 |
| Right Round vs Tainted Love (80s Booty mix) | cover | Flo Rida vs Soft Cell | ?:?? | |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit ('80s version) | cover and instrumental | Deco | 3:05 | |
| Strange Kinda Dance (edit) | Soft Cell | 3:52 | ||
| Taint Yourself | cover and medley | The Memepunks | 5:39 | |
| Tainted Dub | cover and instrumental | Soft Cell | 9:25 | |
| Tainted Dub | cover | Soft Cell | 9:16 | |
| Tainted Dub | cover and medley | Soft Cell | 9:14 | |
| Tainted Dub / Where Did Our Love Go? | cover, instrumental and medley | Soft Cell | 8:51 | |
| Tainted love | cover | Soft Cell | 4:04 | |
| Tainted love | cover and live | Ελεωνόρα Ζουγανέλη | 2:38 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2004‐11‐20: 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2007‐06‐04: Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2007‐05‐28: Palasharp, Milan, Italy) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐10‐12: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:19 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | My Brightest Diamond | 3:20 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐10‐12: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2007‐06‐09: Download Festival, Derby, UK) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐06‐10: Poznań Arena, Poznań, Poland) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (part of “FetenMix: 80 Party-Klassiker im Megamix” DJ-mix) | cover | Soft Cell | 0:56 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love | cover | The Swampy’s | 2:19 | |
| Tainted Love (part of a “As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Part 6” DJ‐mix) | cover and partial | Soft Cell | 2:40 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Soft Cell | 4:27 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Soft Cell | 8:58 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐09‐28: NK Hall, Tokyo, Japan) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (part of “New York: A Mix Odyssey” DJ-mix) | cover | Soft Cell | 3:21 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Scorpions | 3:28 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Soft Cell | 2:18 | |
| Tainted Love (re‐recorded) | cover | Soft Cell | 3:11 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | The Lost Fingers | 3:31 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐12‐12: Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Head Like a Hole | 2:49 | |
| Tainted Love (part of “Tagger The Eighties Mix” DJ‐mix) | cover | Soft Cell | 8:44 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Marilyn Manson | 3:20 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang | 2:47 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang | 2:45 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang | 2:47 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Finger | 3:47 | |
| Tainted Love (part of "Electro Boogie: Shape Generator" DJ mix) | cover | Soft Cell | 5:10 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | David Benoit | 4:24 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | The Underground Rebels | 5:24 | |
| Tainted Love (’91 remix) | cover | Soft Cell | 2:59 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Atrocity | 3:06 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | My Ruin | 3:45 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Soft Cell | 2:50 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐11‐01: Voodoo Island, City Park, New Orleans, LA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:39 | |
| Tainted Love (part of “Mastermix: Flashback 1979–1983” DJ-mix) | cover | Soft Cell | 1:10 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Space Head | 3:27 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2004‐12‐13: Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 4:05 | |
| Tainted Love | cover | Soft Cell | 2:46 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐05‐29: Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:39 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐06‐02: Braehead Arena, Glasgow, UK) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:27 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2004‐11‐11: The Pageant, St. Louis, MO, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 4:00 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2007-06-05: Accor Arena, Paris, France) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:25 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐12‐07: Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:19 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐05‐31: Download Festival, Derby, UK) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐09‐30: Zepp, Tokyo, Japan) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐10‐10: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐12‐16: Valby Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐06‐04: Brixton Academy, London, UK) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐10‐01: Zepp, Tokyo, Japan) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐12‐10: Mazda Palace, Milan, Italy) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2005‐06‐21: Olympiysky Sport Hall, Moscow, Russia) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2007‐05‐26: PINKPOP, Landgraaf, Netherlands) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2003‐06‐08: Rock am Ring, Nürburgring, Germany) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | ?:?? | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2005-08-23: Budapest Sportar, Budapest, Hungary) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 3:28 | |
| Tainted Love (live, 2004‐11‐26: Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA, USA) | cover and live | Marilyn Manson | 4:33 | |
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