Fun Music Information -> Soft Cell
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Band Name Origins:
- Named after the Frank Zappa song 'Soft Cell Conclusion' Submitted by: Cokeahollic
Why the Name is Stupid:
- If you go to jail, is the cell SOFT? No, it isn't. I mean really, you can't expect the name to be intellectual if it's an eighties band...drugs were very popular then. Submitted by: Number Six
Vain Songs:
Song Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "Insecure Me" | Contains the lyrics: "And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft cell; it's not me, this feeling insecure" - John |
Better Names for Current Songs:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Tainted Blood" | "Tainted Love" | Snipe |
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "Where Did Our Love Go?" | "Over My Head," Fleetwood Mac | Mickey D. |
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Ex Dwarf" originally "Sex Dwarf"
When Snow White & the seven dwarfs break up?
Bob
"Tinted Love" originally "Tainted Love"
Alison Runyon
"Say Hell, Wave Goodbye" originally "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
nuwavechick
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Sexy Dwarf" originally "Sex Dwarf"
Naomi Swanson
"Tainted Glove" originally "Tainted Love"
surprised this wasn't up here yet!
Mark Richardson
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"Sax Dwarf" originally "Sex Dwarf"
Bob
"Six Dwarf" originally "Sex Dwarf"
Dopey must be missing from the group.
Bob
"Hex Dwarf" originally "Sex Dwarf"
Bob
"Sainted Love" originally "Tainted Love"
Cape Canaveral Lavigne
"Fainted Love" originally "Tainted Love"
Penelope Beckinsale
There are additional song titles with a letter changed available.
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Tainted Love" | "Tantive IV" | Rice Cube & Watt Daddy |
| "Tainted Love" | "Dainty Thugs" | McKludge |
| "Tainted Love" | "Tainted Meat" | Lushscreamqueen |
| "Tainted Love" | "Painted Curb" | Jonathan Caws-Elwitt |
| "Tainted Love" | "Twenty-Two (US 22): Other Version" | Andrew D. Lacroix |
| "Tainted Love" | "Twenty-Two (US 22)" | Andrew D. Lacroix |
| "Tainted Love" | "Tainted Glove" | Snow Cell |
| "Tainted Love" | "Tainted Meat" | Joel Martinez |
| "Memorabilia" | "Phobophobia" | Coolio |
| "Tainted Love" | "One White Glove (#2)" | Ned Riley |
There are additional song parodies available. | ||
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Tainted Love | Poison Control Center | Anna('ello govena) |
| Tainted Love | Marriage Counseling | Hazel |
| Chips On My Shoulder | Fish And Chip Joint | 8345748902 |
| Tainted Love | Escort Service or Dating Service | Melhi |
| Tainted Love | Divorce Clinic | Wood |
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| World Without Love Peter and Gordon | Tainted Love Soft Cell | World Without Tainted Love | Natalie Snortman |
| You Give Love A Bad Name Bon Jovi | Tainted Love Soft Cell | You Give Tainted Love A Bad Name | Thessaly Danes |
| Feel Like Makin' Love Bad Company/Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway | Tainted Love Soft Cell | Feel Like Makin' Tainted Love | newave |
| My Name Is Eminem | Tainted Love Soft Cell | My Name Is Tainted, Love | Gretchen Wieners |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be :
Soft Brain Cells
Bad Brains combined with Soft Cell
Bad Brains doing "Tainted Love" would kind of leave me that way.
Submitted By: neptunevsmars
Margot & The Nuclear So & Soft Cell's
Margot & The Nuclear So & So's combined with Soft Cell
Submitted By: rocky
Softcocks
Soft Cell combined with The Buzzcocks
I know. I've got a genital thing going here. I'm new OK?
Submitted By: neptunevsmars
Soft New Kids On The Cell Block
Soft Cell combined with New Kids On The Block
Submitted By: Donna Gelpigi
Misheard Lyrics:
"Tainted Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Changin' love
Original Lyrics: Tainted love
| "Tainted Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Take my tears and that´s not Milly, oh.
Original Lyrics: Take my tears and that's not nearly all.
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"Tainted Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Tinted love
Original Lyrics: Tainted love
| "Sex Dwarf"
Misheard Lyrics: Luring disco dollies to a life of Christ.
Original Lyrics: Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
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| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Song Title Space Change:
"Taint Ed Love" originally "Tainted Love"
Submitted by: George Straitjacket
Songs That Are Banned:
"Sex Dwarf"
Soft Cell generated some controversy in Britain, mainly due to the scandal involved with the "Sex Dwarf" promotional film. The original version of the music video featured Almond and Ball in a bloody butcher shop surrounded by chainsaws, nude actors, and dwarves. However, the film was confiscated by police and censored before it was even released. As a tongue-in-cheek substitute, a re-filmed "Sex Dwarf" appeared in Non-Stop Exotic Video Show featuring Almond dressed in a tuxedo, directing a symphony orchestra of dwarves. *From Wikipedia
Submitted by: 34532
Super Long Pop Songs:
"Tainted Love" Length: 9:00
Back in 1981, the British duo Soft Cell recorded a 12" dance disc about a spurned lover, "Tainted Love" that quickly became a favorite world wide in gay and straight dance clubs. Soft Cell realized from the start that the 9:00 minute version probably wouldn't get much airplay on U.S. top 40 stations and did their own edited version for the album release (along with the 9 minute 12" version). But to the surprise of Soft Cell (perhaps not realizing that the American radio market was changing with FM taking over even for Top 40 stations) and radio stations liking the 9:00 12" version decided to play that version which had mixed into the song a medley or perhaps an early attempt at sampling of the Supremes' 1964 Motown #1 hit, "Where Did Our Love Go". Both versions were played on Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" syndicated radio show. And mainly because of this, "Tainted Love" spent the most time in the Top 40 charts of any single to date.
Submitted by: Peter
