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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is the first album released by the synthpop
Synthpop

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
 duo Soft Cell
Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an England synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers....
, released in 1981 by Some Bizarre Records. The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the worldwide success of its single "Tainted Love
Tainted Love

"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of The Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones. It attained worldwide fame after being covered by Soft Cell in 1981, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart, and has since been covered by numerous other groups and artists....
", a cover version
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of a little-known R&B song by Gloria Jones
Gloria Jones

Gloria Jones is an United States singer and songwriter. She sound recording and reproduction the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", later a hit record for the United Kingdom synth-pop duet , Soft Cell....
 which topped charts worldwide and became the best-selling British single of 1981 in the United States. The album produced two more Top-5 singles in the UK in "Bedsitter" and the unapologetically sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye."

Despite the reputation of many new wave bands as being on the cutting edge of technology, the album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox
Revox

ReVox is a brand name of Switzerland audio equipment created by Studer in the 1950s.The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990....
 tape recorder, a borrowed Roland
Roland Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ?33 million in capital....
 drum machine
Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music....
 belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED
New England Digital

New England Digital Corp. , based in White River Junction, Vermont, was best known for its signature product, the Synclavier System.Originally developed as the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer" by Dartmouth College professor Jon Appleton, in association with NED founders Cameron W....
 Synclavier
Synclavier

The Synclavier System was an early synthesizer and Sampler , manufactured by New England Digital. First released in 1975, it proved to be highly influential among both music producers and electronic musicians, due to its versatility, its cutting-edge technology and distinctive sound....
, belonging to producer Mike Thorne.






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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is the first album released by the synthpop
Synthpop

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
 duo Soft Cell
Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an England synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers....
, released in 1981 by Some Bizarre Records. The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the worldwide success of its single "Tainted Love
Tainted Love

"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of The Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones. It attained worldwide fame after being covered by Soft Cell in 1981, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart, and has since been covered by numerous other groups and artists....
", a cover version
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of a little-known R&B song by Gloria Jones
Gloria Jones

Gloria Jones is an United States singer and songwriter. She sound recording and reproduction the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", later a hit record for the United Kingdom synth-pop duet , Soft Cell....
 which topped charts worldwide and became the best-selling British single of 1981 in the United States. The album produced two more Top-5 singles in the UK in "Bedsitter" and the unapologetically sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye."

Despite the reputation of many new wave bands as being on the cutting edge of technology, the album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox
Revox

ReVox is a brand name of Switzerland audio equipment created by Studer in the 1950s.The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990....
 tape recorder, a borrowed Roland
Roland Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ?33 million in capital....
 drum machine
Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music....
 belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED
New England Digital

New England Digital Corp. , based in White River Junction, Vermont, was best known for its signature product, the Synclavier System.Originally developed as the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer" by Dartmouth College professor Jon Appleton, in association with NED founders Cameron W....
 Synclavier
Synclavier

The Synclavier System was an early synthesizer and Sampler , manufactured by New England Digital. First released in 1975, it proved to be highly influential among both music producers and electronic musicians, due to its versatility, its cutting-edge technology and distinctive sound....
, belonging to producer Mike Thorne. The album was recorded in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 at the height of its gay club scene, at a time which the drug MDMA
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

MDMA , most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy , is a semisynthetic member of the amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs, a subclass of the phenethylamines.....
 (also called ecstasy) was just beginning to become popular. The sound and club beats of the album reflect this atmosphere, with songs about pornographic cinemas and infidelity, although the album's themes sprang not from New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 but the seedy underworld of early Eighties London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. The group caused some controversy in the UK over the single "Sex Dwarf," the music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 of which was banned for explicit, S&M-related content. The duo would delve deeper into its fascination with decadence on its subsequent works, including the 1982 remix
Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses Audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, Pitch , tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of th...
 album Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing
Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing

Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing is a short album released in 1982 by Soft Cell, a pioneering synthpop/New Wave music duo which featured Marc Almond singing and David Ball playing synthesizers....
, which features an alternate cut of "Sex Dwarf" on which singer Marc Almond
Marc Almond

Marc Almond is a popular English people singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave music duo Soft Cell....
, famous for his flamboyant, unabashed homosexuality
Homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to human sexual behavior or same-sex attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one?s own sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identi...
, appears to simulate a female orgasm
Orgasm

An orgasm is the conclusion of the Human sexual response cycle#Plateau phase of Human sexual response cycle, and may be experienced by both males and females....
 with his voice.

Notably, many of their most acclaimed songs (including "Torch" and "Where Did Our Love Go ?") do not appear on their LP
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
 releases. An example of this is "Tainted Love," which, when originally recorded, was almost nine minutes long because it gradually segued into "Where Did Our Love Go?" After it was recorded, the session was split into two different songs, with "Where Did Our Love Go?" only being listenable as the B-side to "Tainted Love" or on the full nine-minute cut, which was sold as a 12-inch single
12-inch single

The 12-inch single gramophone record came into existence with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. The first 12" single was actually a 10" acetate used by a mix engineer in need of a Friday night test copy for famed disco mixer Tom Moulton....
. As a result, many of their singles have become quite valuable. Their first release, the single "A Man Can Get Lost" b/w "Memorabilia" may fetch prices as high as $85 (approximately £50), because the original version was for many years unavailable on CD (although a re-recorded version appears on their 1982 release Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing under the name "A Man Could Get Lost").

The song "Frustration" also appears on the rare 1980 independently released EP, Mutant Moments
Mutant Moments

Mutant Moments is a short Extended play, independently financed and produced by Soft Cell, a synthpop/New Wave music duo who would later achieve fame with their groundbreaking hit cover of the Gloria Jones song "Tainted Love"....
, although the two versions are very different and contain slightly different lyrics. Remixes of several tracks, including "Sex Dwarf" and an instrumental cut of "Chips on My Shoulder" also appear on the remix album, Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing.

In 2008, American magazine OUT ranked Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret number 66 on their list of "100 Greatest, Gayest Albums."

Track listing

  • All Songs Written By Almond/Ball, except "Tainted Love" written by Edward C. Cobb.
  1. "Frustration" - 4.12
  2. "Tainted Love
    Tainted Love

    "Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of The Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones. It attained worldwide fame after being covered by Soft Cell in 1981, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart, and has since been covered by numerous other groups and artists....
    " - 2.34
  3. "Seedy Films" - 5.05
  4. "Youth" - 3.15
  5. "Sex Dwarf" - 5.15
  6. "Entertain Me" - 3.35
  7. "Chips on My Shoulder" - 4.05
  8. "Bedsitter" - 3.36
  9. "Secret Life" - 3.37
  10. "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
    Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

    "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" is a song by England synthpop duo Soft Cell that was released as a single in 1981 and reached number three on the UK Singles Chart....
    " - 5.24


Extra tracks on remastered CD: SOME BIZARRE/MERCURY (532 595-2, February 1996)

  1. "Where Did Our Love Go?" - 3.14 [B-side of "Tainted Love" in the UK]
  2. "Memorabilia" - 4.49 [B-side of "A Man Can Get Lost" in the UK and Tainted Love in the US]
  3. "Facility Girls" - 2.25 [B-side of "Bedsitter"]
  4. "Fun City" - 7.45 [B-side 12" Say Hello, Wave Goodbye]
  5. "Torch" - 4.08 [non-LP single]
  6. "Insecure Me" - 4.39 [B-side of "Torch"]
  7. "What?" - 2.50 [non-LP single]
  8. "....So" - 3.47 [B-side of "What ?"]


USA Extra tracks:

  1. "Tainted Love" / "Where Did Our Love Go?" - 8.57
  2. "Tainted Dub" - 9.14


Production

  • Produced By Dave Ball, Daniel Miller & Mike Thorne
  • Mixed By Harvey Goldberg
  • Engineered By Paul Hardiman & Don Wershba


Credits

  • Marc Almond: Vocals
  • Dave Ball: Backing Vocals, Synthesizers, Multi-Instruments, Electronic Sounds
  • Cindy Ecstasy: Backing Vocals
  • John Gatchell: Horns
  • David Tofani: Clarinet, Saxophone
  • Vicious Pink Phenomena: Backing Vocals