Tainted love

[Perry Wade-Carter]

i just fell in love with marilyn manson's version of "tainted love". its so cool, it really is cool when i play it in a car with huge subs in the back! really cool!!!!

 

[Oblivious]

Marilyn Manson needs to leave the classic (yes, classic is my opinion ) songs of the 1980 alone! First he butchered Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), then killed Tainted Love.

I like some of his music, but his remakes are .

 

[funyun]

Tainted Love isn't from the 1980s, it's from the 1960s.

 

[Oblivious]

Tainted Love isn't from the 1980s, it's from the 1960s.

That's true (good catch btw), but the 80's version is the one I like.

 

[blackwasp]

I prefer Manson's take on "Sweet Dreams". He seems to make wise decisions on songs to cover.

 

[absolutely_lost_86]

i think its a good cover. my fav version is soft cell ersion

 

[YankeeQueenoftheSouth]

That's true (good catch btw), but the 80's version is the one I like.

I think there should be a legal limit to how many times a song can be remade.... I mean come on... if we keep going at this rate we'll have a new version of the song every ten to 15 years!

 

[Perry Wade-Carter]

i used to hate marilyn manson. geez he was creepy! but ever since i heard tainted love and then sweet dreams he seems really cool to me.

 

[DeadPoetic]

I actually like Marilyn Manson's version.

 

[adams apple]

Ooh, my dad met Marc Almond on a bus once...

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

In the words of Anthony from RHCP, "...never mind that soft cell $&%!, never mind duran duran, 'cause were the red hot chili peppers..."

 

[Arnold_Philips]

The original is by Gloria Jones, if I'm not mistaken. A soul song.

 

[Sipes13]

I like the song Tainted Love, even Masons version of it. Whats everyone think about Manson doing Personal Jesus??

 

[theFijian]

I like the song Tainted Love, even Masons version of it. Whats everyone think about Manson doing Personal Jesus??

He's made himself into a pastiche for some reason. He should get back to doing original material, unless of course he's run out of all his half-decent original material.

 

[billiefan2000]

Soft Cell was the band who did the 80's version of TAINTED LOVE

They were a one hit wonder band


Gloria Jones, wife of T Rex singer Marc Bolan. originally did this song in 1964.


And it was originally a soul song.

 

[theFijian]

Soft Cell was the band who did the 80's version of TAINTED LOVE

They were a one hit wonder band

No they weren't, there was also Memorabilia and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. That makes them a three-hit wonder.

 

[Qyöt27]

That's true (good catch btw), but the 80's version is the one I like.

Not to mention that most covers of Tainted Love are based on the Soft Cell version (at least in my experience, having heard about 4 or 5 different artists play the song other than Gloria Jones or Soft Cell).

I like the song Tainted Love, even Masons version of it. Whats everyone think about Manson doing Personal Jesus??

I think that Gravity Kills did a better job of covering it than Manson did.

 

[ptsofathrty]

It is pretty good. Have you seen the video?

 

[Sipes13]

I've never even heard of gravity kills, I'll have to check them out. I've watched the personal Jesus video a few times, It's alright. But Manson usually has more interesting videos, mobscene was awesome.

 

[Qyöt27]

I've never even heard of gravity kills, I'll have to check them out.

The cover of "Personal Jesus" is on the album Superstarved, just to point you in the right direction.

I'm pretty sure the extent of their mainstream success was in the mid-90s when Industrial Metal was really popular, and I'm also pretty sure their two most popular songs are "Guilty" and "Goodbye" ("Goodbye" is actually featured on the soundtrack to the first Mortal Kombat movie).