59. "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go" by Soft Cell {#8; 1/82} [Video: Tainted Love. (I never saw this video before. I'm not sure how it would have been received by the masses back in 1982. Even in 2015 I'm thinking, "Smile, Marc! You have a wonderful hit song, no one wants to see you throw a tissy fit.")]
This song has a lot of similarities with the song before it on this list, "Safety Dance." Both songs are definite "wheelhouse" songs. Both feature a lot of synthesizer. And, both songs have multiple versions, with one version being far superior to the others.
In this case, it has to be the extended version with the "Where Did Our Love Go" fade ending. Sometimes I'll hear the shorter, "Tainted Love" only version, and I'll be supremely disappointed when, after the second "Touch me baby, tainted love" it continues to fade without diverting to "Where Did Our Love Go." Without it, it might make the HondoJoe Top 200. With it, it's firmly ensconced in the Top 100.
I knew the "Where Did Our Love Go" part of the song was a remake of a song by the Supremes, but I didn't know until today that the "Tainted Love" portion of the song was originally released by a woman named Gloria Jones back in 1964. You learn something new-ish every day!
COMING UP NEXT: Happy, happy, joy, joy!
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