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Soft Cell
"Non Stop Erotic Cabaret"

1981


Track List

1. Frustration
2. Tainted Love
3. Seedy Films
4. Youth
5. Sex Dwarf
6. Entertain Me
7. Chips On My Shoulder
8. Bedsitter
9. Secret Life
10. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
11. Where Did Our Love Go?
12. Memorabilia
13. Facility Girls
14. Fun City
15. Torch
16. Insecure Me
17. What?
18. So
                 
               
 
 
As with so many groups of their time and place--synthesizer-obsessed England in the early '80s--Soft Cell's first albumis also their best.
NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET is a self-consciously seedy but nonetheless delightful excursion into knowing decadence. The artifice is plain--Marc Almond's coyly melodramatic vocals and Dave Ball's witty synths suggest that you shouldn't take this album seriously for a moment--but thesongs are mostly strong enough to make this a satisfying album.
The hyperspeed "Frustration" careens directly to the glorious "Tainted Love", an archetype of '80s pop music unmatched by anything else the duo ever did, though "Bedsitter", "Sex Dwarf" and the blatantly sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" come close.

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