Utter genius. Lyricism, style... Epitome of 80s chic. Gorgeous, soul-destroying beauty. I am young again and lost in the bitter-sweetness of living. Long live Soft Cell.
It really was this song and composition, that mesmerized me, totally. I've been a big fan of the sound of the clarinet and saxophone ever since. Its music that moves you, the most powerful of all. I used to cry as I believed the words and felt I knew the story too. The fact that I was 14 and knew myself to be gay, was another powerful driver into Soft Cell. Non Stop Erotic Cabaret was a masterpiece, with a song for everyone, at different times and parts of their life. A naughty secret for many but a stark reality for more. Youth and Seedy films, seemed to predict today's insular world, after the essences of youth has flown and perhaps your love too, they highlight what you have left, when your two thirds through, spending your lifes penny. It's an album you need to hear atleast once a year, to keep you grounded, and helps you count your blessings.
What an outstanding track this is and my favourite Soft Cell release. Of course, Tainted Love is the track from Soft Cell that everyone knows, but this is by far the best song they released. Melodic, mature, expertly written and composed and still sounds amazing some 30 years later!
Mother of God….the lyrics, the voice…I just got wasted at a friend’s house at a huge party of 40/50-somethings. I’d completely forgotten this song. It came up on the playlist and….I don’t have words. A pal and I had the same reaction: total recognition, total emotion. Dragged us both back to our childhoods. I mean, Lord, we both lived through Soft Cell…but so few of us paid much attention to this song. I’m home now (sober-ish) and I had to put it on. How utterly privileged I was to be an 80s kid. Just to live through it all. Glorious.
Couldn't agree more. Was 11 in the winter of '81 and I always loved this. Now I feel like crying whenever I hear it. We got to experience the brilliance first hand, not some ironic pastiche.
Don't you remember how we used to say in the 90's and early 2000's that the 80's were an empty pitt of creativity. But when you give enough time, everything ends up being good through the nostalgia filter :)
I was there at that time. I didn’t quite get it. But watching this at age 59 my emotions are all over the place. For a big hairy construction worker . Wow what a great song.
Aw, shit ! . Bristol , Redland . Living in a bedsit after a break up . The most lonelly year of my life . Loved this song . Bedsit land broke my heart . Marc Almond , you touched my soul 40 years ago . Xx
That's it, british music that popped into our heads in '80, me, my brother and some few friends ....from Romania, we have become anti-tyrany because of brithish music, we've finished the dictatorship of Ceausecu with no fear at all, because we have listened these songs....it's not a joke, we have become free years before, just listening to forbiden music, it must be something in our human nature, our mom was too afraid to speak....we realised blindly, we knew it in a moment, that's it !
Good to know east and western Europeans were listening to the same things in the early 80s either side of the iron curtain, with the same feelings. Greetings from Manchester UK
I love this man and appreciate his theatrical talent, music and his amazing voice now even more than back in the 80's. I love and miss the 80's so much.
I'm going through some stuff at the moment, and I'd go back in a heartbeat. It was a troubled time politically and socially, but it was _my_ troubled time and I could handle it.
The emotions in this song make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Anger, sarcasm, flippant, sad & reflective .. A work of absolute genius. 🥀
Growing up in the 70's and 80's and then some more in the 90's, I didn't get Soft Cell. They were part of the 80's New Romantic brigade and I was angry post-punk, indie. I now look back at them and laugh at myself. They were truly brilliant.
I'm much the same mate. At the time I sort of knew I loved it but I told myself I was a rocker and this was "mod music". But I secretly loved it! How foolish we were as teenagers sometimes, denying ourselves.
so hows life sophie ,, dont be heartbroken you sound lovely and sweet say hello where are you im in ireland ,, come on holidays i think we have lots of long stories ,, bye for now
the lyrics, the synth, Marc's voice, the positivity you can feel in a bad relationship ending and a new chapter in your life beginning, a very, very special song.
A Ridiculously good masterpiece of a song, the way the synths build up from beginning up until the end is astonishing in the most wholesome way musically possible.
"take a look at my face for the last time" ...... heartbreaking line, fills me with sadness and regret for a love lost, but never forgotten. If its true love, it stays with you for a lifetime, even when they have long since moved on. Sorry darling, i will always miss you.
Marc Almond, Jimmy Somerville, Andy Bell - and many others. Stood up for who they were, and their community, and made great music. The Pride bit went over my head when I was younger, but I look back now and so admire these folks.
Back then no one really cared about identity politics as the artist and content was what mattered and was what got you in the charts or attention. Soft Cell and Bronski Beat were great bands and it was the music that was so good and of course the performance art were great too and great lyrics but it was all about great songs and music which I must say is sadly missing these days.
sorry Paolo your wrong in the no one cared if the artist was gay or whatever but the press destroyed Marc Almond with lies same as they tried with George Micheal boy George etc.. and Jimmy sommerville bronski beat song small-town boy was about purely that , it was all identity issues back then
@aclark903 nonsense morrissey was hated by the right wing press like the sun and mail every article was negative, thats until he destroyed his and the smiths legacy by becoming a one of them .
try and listen too a recording of chris evans breakfast show on radio 2 (bbc) from a few years ago its outstanding with marc singing his hits at 8 am in the morning 👍
“What about me, well I’ll find someone that’s not going cheap in the sales…” 😳 Ouch, the lyrics really serve up some heartfelt and painful insults Awesome song, that synth 🥰 Marc Almond’s voice, so iconic
@@skyblazeeterno yes, agreed - “ you and I it had to be the standing joke of the year, you were a sleep around, a lost and found…” . All the lyrics are savage and bitter and really quite sad, as well as so cutting, they are funny too, in a way…🙈🤷♂️🤗🤗 It’s a masterpiece, IMO.
@@sgtscheetje The other two being OMD - Messages and Visage - Fade To Grey. SynthPop just means everything to me and that’s what I’m gonna make everyone listen to at my funeral. 😉
@@paddyeejit1954 How about "the standing joke of the year" and "I've put up with all the scenes and this is one scene that is going to be played my way"
This is a wonderful song. It's a classic now many of them are. This is actually a great song for anyone having undergone domestic violence or abuse in shutting the door on a toxic relationship.
"Take a look at my face for the last time" "Take your hands off me" When this came out in the 80s, I was about 14. We all just thought it was a pop song and nothing more. Now, 40 yrs later, it says so much more. Such a great song, on so many levels. Siggh, getting old sucks at times 😢
This will be my funeral song as they unload me from the hearse into the crem. As I go through the curtains, the music will be 'time to say goodbye'. Think i'm kidding? it's already written into my will.
Not very wise... When the words come, "Take your hands off me", the pallbearers might think it is a command for them, and they let go of the coffin while they are carrying it... hehehe
i was 14,, this song came out,,, i loved it soooooo much,, bought the single, played it in my aunties shed on record,, learned the words,,, 36 years later ,,,,,,,,,, oh my god,,,,,,,,,,, i still love it,,,, still sing it,,,, still dance to it,,,,, soft cell i love ya,, xxx
Early 80's, me and my brother, driving our dads car, windows wound down, soft cell tape, singing our heads off, everyone looking, couldn't give a crap, just brilliant, thanks so much soft cell, brilliant x
Oh, wow, this is such a track. I bought this album living in 'bedsit land' at the time and I played it over and over. And this track... To me it seemed to describe my life, the new forbidden relationship that you know was never going to work, so you have to end it and you know you'll probably still see that person again in the clubs, but you'll pretend you never knew each other. All that early 1980s uncertainty and insecurity comes back
@@SC-jh9qp Yep,i remember buying it!A while later i remember buying the Art of falling apart album,i was one of the first to buy it,first few copies came with a little flexi disc single of a Jimi Hendrix cover,of all things!!Ended up being worth a fair bit of money,even a few months after. 12 inch singles were great,the amount of times i heard a song and thought why in the hell wasn't that longer,and hey presto! ;-)
I love Marc Almond and this song is the best 😁 I'm only twenty so obviously wasn't in the 80's my mum and dad used to like soft cell and I appreciate they showed me who he was 😍 I know great music when I hear it 😁
In January 1982 the crisis and cold war were undermining our moods but Mark Almond let the light in with pure synth, melody, lyrics, purple & orange. Made us dream of home computer music, new wave, fashion and the explosion of creativity that would follow in 83-89.
I remember my 17 year old son buying this and endlessly playing it, use to irritate me, we played it at his funeral a few years later, I quite like this song, it took a long time to grow on me:)
Pezzo incredibile... romantico, evocativo, nostalgico. La musica, i sinth e la voce di Marc Almond si fondono alla perfezione formando un capolavoro assoluto. Mamma mia che bellezza...che bellezza ❤️
Every time I hear this it takes me back to the 80s I was in the military posted to Cyprus ,the chorus is as good as it gets in music,one of my all time top favorite songs ,take you’re hands of me wow just blows me away hearing it again,happy days
This brilliant & completely ageless creation puts a lump in the throat and tears in the eyes of this absolute lump of a late 50's year old Scotsman... pure unadulterated class.
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40 years later, the chorus still has me in shivers. This "Take your hands off me" line is unparalleled.
Absolutely
Yeah totally agree..thats the bit that always gets me..I've been rewinding that part for the last ten minutes
Same here 🤗
Love the song, but as you say the chorus is unparalleled ❤
the chorus is haunting
One of the most important song of 80s.
Absolutely beautiful song. God, I really wish it was January 1982 again right now...
Think we all want to turn back that clock 🙂
@@Bertie_magoo Totally!
So do I -was 14
Agree 😊
I wish that too!
Man is it me or has this song aged well? Kin amazing. Lyrics are so real to me today.
Great song,, Mark Almond has a lovely voice the song is an evergreen now ,, the lyrics will always be poiniont when people are in love etc etc
My favourite soft cell track -
100%
Yep. This, then What and Loving You, Hating Me
Mine too, absolutely amazing track!!
Omg ni that was talent ❤❤
My secret life
Wish i could go back to the 80s what good years.
Me too.
Things were authentic back then. Eccentricity was deeply eccentric. Now everyone thinks they are one in a million.
Utter genius. Lyricism, style... Epitome of 80s chic. Gorgeous, soul-destroying beauty. I am young again and lost in the bitter-sweetness of living. Long live Soft Cell.
Richard your write so beautiful I can dance in blues. Im Brazilean loveable heavy for your lust jajaja 🎉
"Soul-destroying beauty" is the best way to describe this song (and maybe the whole 80s).
Utter rubbish.
@@12dougreed How ???
@@12dougreed You're a philistine
Beautiful, im 61 and this still sounds fantastic ❤
Always has Mark
ditto - i feel young again - this is pure class... something beyond words...all the best.
Instead of playing "Tainted Love" to death all the time they might give this one a spin on the radio every now and then.
Same with ABC and Human League. You'd think they were all one hit wonders.
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I only play this ... it’s the better song
@@markmoore2625 Love Action is so good though and being boiled. Better than Don’t you want me! But then again they nailed them commercial records.
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I am 50 now and still can recite most words. A classic in my opinion
me too.
I'm 57 and was an adult when this was a hit, so there!!!
I totally agree I was 17 when this song came out loved it
It really was this song and composition, that mesmerized me, totally. I've been a big fan of the sound of the clarinet and saxophone ever since. Its music that moves you, the most powerful of all. I used to cry as I believed the words and felt I knew the story too. The fact that I was 14 and knew myself to be gay, was another powerful driver into Soft Cell. Non Stop Erotic Cabaret was a masterpiece, with a song for everyone, at different times and parts of their life. A naughty secret for many but a stark reality for more. Youth and Seedy films, seemed to predict today's insular world, after the essences of youth has flown and perhaps your love too, they highlight what you have left, when your two thirds through, spending your lifes penny. It's an album you need to hear atleast once a year, to keep you grounded, and helps you count your blessings.
Good call Damo
What an outstanding track this is and my favourite Soft Cell release. Of course, Tainted Love is the track from Soft Cell that everyone knows, but this is by far the best song they released. Melodic, mature, expertly written and composed and still sounds amazing some 30 years later!
I quite like bedsitter, reminds me of going to Cinderellas in 1982 ish for the first time at 17 years old.
Lp was released in 1981 which will make it 42 years later this year!!
Tainted love does my head in, it’s all u ever hear on the radio or on 80s compilations.
40 years ago... I know hard to believe - one of the great 80's songs
@dt7449 You're damn right. Like 'Come On Eileen' and 'Gold', they've played it (almost) to death.
This was his best song..
The best song from Soft Cell in my opinion.
Bob Harrison definitely
Bob Harrison and sexdwarf.
sex dwarf is better
pedro silva i like them both.
I would say that this song is Soft Cell's best and their one song that I never tire of listening to!
Mother of God….the lyrics, the voice…I just got wasted at a friend’s house at a huge party of 40/50-somethings. I’d completely forgotten this song. It came up on the playlist and….I don’t have words. A pal and I had the same reaction: total recognition, total emotion. Dragged us both back to our childhoods. I mean, Lord, we both lived through Soft Cell…but so few of us paid much attention to this song. I’m home now (sober-ish) and I had to put it on.
How utterly privileged I was to be an 80s kid. Just to live through it all.
Glorious.
Beautifully written & you’re spot on. We were incredibly privileged to have lived through the 80’s..😊
‘71 born here - weren’t we lucky with this music! Still got my mates from 40 years ago although we’re spread all over the globe now!
Couldn't agree more. Was 11 in the winter of '81 and I always loved this. Now I feel like crying whenever I hear it. We got to experience the brilliance first hand, not some ironic pastiche.
Beautiful song, the words make my day 😁
Cost me a love
One of the best choruses ever. Who doesn't miss the 80's music was original and truly creative
👍
Iam 49 80s awsome
The chorus gives me goosebumps
Don't you remember how we used to say in the 90's and early 2000's that the 80's were an empty pitt of creativity. But when you give enough time, everything ends up being good through the nostalgia filter :)
All of us say hello never goodbye
When he starts singing "take my hands off me", that synth always takes my breath away.
Brilliant change of key used to great emotional effect... 👌🏼
Nicely pointed out, I was going to say the same.....
Your hands*
It gives me goosebumps every time
There are no many things that touch my heart like the 80's synth does!
I was there at that time. I didn’t quite get it. But watching this at age 59 my emotions are all over the place. For a big hairy construction worker . Wow what a great song.
One of my late sister's favourite songs.......R.I.P sis love you always.
Sorry for your unimaginable loss. Your sister had great taste in music XxX
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🙏😞
How good is this tune?..I actually preferred this to Tainted Love...another sometimes forgotten classic from the greatest music era
Aw, shit ! . Bristol , Redland . Living in a bedsit after a break up . The most lonelly year of my life . Loved this song . Bedsit land broke my heart . Marc Almond , you touched my soul 40 years ago . Xx
@@brianjohnston4117 still in Bristol
Love the Bris!
Redland is gentrified to the max now
That's it, british music that popped into our heads in '80, me, my brother and some few friends ....from Romania, we have become anti-tyrany because of brithish music, we've finished the dictatorship of Ceausecu with no fear at all, because we have listened these songs....it's not a joke, we have become free years before, just listening to forbiden music, it must be something in our human nature, our mom was too afraid to speak....we realised blindly, we knew it in a moment, that's it !
Enjoy your freedoms and victory...fight, fight, fight. Q
Good to know east and western Europeans were listening to the same things in the early 80s either side of the iron curtain, with the same feelings. Greetings from Manchester UK
I admire your courage and it makes me realise how lucky I was to be in the UK in the 1980's and listen to music like this every day.
Lived in an era of timeless classics, 80`s take a bow!!
Music and life was so much better then imo
That deliciously key changing drone of the synth has tears rolling down my face with nostalgia. Sublime.
That cord change is what makes life worth living.
I love this man and appreciate his theatrical talent, music and his amazing voice now even more than back in the 80's.
I love and miss the 80's so much.
Soft cell hits different mann
I'm going through some stuff at the moment, and I'd go back in a heartbeat. It was a troubled time politically and socially, but it was _my_ troubled time and I could handle it.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 I wouldn't even think about it. Best time of my life!
Fabulous years, music and everything ❤
@@C64Forever72I feel sorry for anyone who wasn't around in the 60's, 70's and 80's.just a wonderful time to be alive.
The emotions in this song make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Anger, sarcasm, flippant, sad & reflective .. A work of absolute genius. 🥀
Graeme Ewing well said mate,you nailed it.
thanks for describing what i could not
Eloquent as the song itself-nailed
Correct,what a brilliant song from a brilliant singer ,so underrated,shame.
I agree
My old man (66) has been working with me on my house and he said “alexa. Play Marc almond”. My old man’s a legend.
Growing up in the 70's and 80's and then some more in the 90's, I didn't get Soft Cell. They were part of the 80's New Romantic brigade and I was angry post-punk, indie. I now look back at them and laugh at myself. They were truly brilliant.
I'm much the same mate. At the time I sort of knew I loved it but I told myself I was a rocker and this was "mod music". But I secretly loved it! How foolish we were as teenagers sometimes, denying ourselves.
I'm the same.. The smiths, joy division, the beatles are my bands but this is a terrific song
I was new romance. Velvet lace feathers knickerbockers Adam ant fashion. Wish I had courage to wear them now but in my 60s
during the 80s were you a hat browner or a brown hatter?
@@susansoliman4666 Ah, go on.
I like how it starts amateururish then melts into a world class melody.
kind of out of tune and then it takes off into something beautiful the voice and the istrumintation and lay out of the song
Just come back from a David Gray concert in London..Marc made a guest appearance singing this song, I was in tears, it was magic
Oh! Just reading that makes me cry! What a great surprise!
Lucky!
Wow!!!!! That must have been such a thrill
Hi Donna,hope you’re okay?
This is one of the best songs ever made.
both into northern soul..
Calm down
Wow wow wow…so many memories are coming flooding back…This is from MY youth.
Yes mate, same.....takes me back
I miss this time - my young years x how I didn’t know it then x
Time passes quickly
@@perryhailey6715 it certainly does x it certainly does that -
Still a masterpiece in 2024 ❤
I totally agree with you 🙏🎼🎵🎶❤️
Soft Cell were the best group of the 80s still play their music 2023
One of them. They were so many. They were all good.
This song never fails to bring me comfort, takes me back to the best days of the 80s. Such a talented artist.
Incredible lyrics, moving music. And THAT voice. Timeless masterpiece.
iesus68
Totally agree
Could not put it better timeless classic
iesus68
Absolutely true.
Total masterpiece!
Brings back bittersweet memories, more bitter than sweet.......
Every time I hear this it throws me back to the best memories in the eighties, what a time!! Those times will never be repeated ☹️
Hey. Love your comment. 1980
Thank god
Maybe they will?
This song still crystallises a lifetime of heartbreak for me.
Hi Sophie,hope you’re okay ?
so hows life sophie ,, dont be heartbroken you sound lovely and sweet say hello where are you im in ireland ,, come on holidays i think we have lots of long stories ,, bye for now
Sophie play ,, Youll Never Know ,,, its by Hi Gloss have a good listen to the lyrics ,, t care
I am almost 60 years old and still one of the best song I have ever heard.
I agree it just gets stuck in your head
Absolutely love it much more than at the time. The comments about him being out of tune in the comments makes me sigh. They have no idea.
@James Hodson I was into all this stuff back then, now I'm into metal, deth metal, thrash etc. ( and everything else). Weird eh?
Great song
memories of a time long gone bt not forgotten!
The voice, the lyrics, the synth - a masterpiece. The bitter-sweetness, that only Soft Cell could create and that still is heartbreaking.
the lyrics, the synth, Marc's voice, the positivity you can feel in a bad relationship ending and a new chapter in your life beginning, a very, very special song.
A Ridiculously good masterpiece of a song, the way the synths build up from beginning up until the end is astonishing in the most wholesome way musically possible.
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Totally! Very impressive bit of singing! Simply beautiful voice, up there with George Michael. When i heard this first i got chills 👍
"take a look at my face for the last time" ...... heartbreaking line, fills me with sadness and regret for a love lost, but never forgotten. If its true love, it stays with you for a lifetime, even when they have long since moved on. Sorry darling, i will always miss you.
Miss u 2 hun
I share that
I know how you felt, I am going through the same thing....I will always love my Ibiye no matter what
Anybody else get shivers when Marc sings, " Take your hands off me " 😯
Yes... Powerful stuff.
I do, what a gorgeoous chap
why what you done ?
Yep that's pain
Not me
This beauty has it all: gorgeous insults and one of the most memorable synth riffs of the 80s. Dave, you genius.
Him brill
Synth pop at its absolute finest
Yes, and it's so wonderfully gay too, isn't it!!!!!
Marc Almond - icon of the 80's, underrated genius, magical and exceptional artist X.
He was a good looking young man in the 80s.
Underrated by who??????
Marc Almond, Jimmy Somerville, Andy Bell - and many others. Stood up for who they were, and their community, and made great music. The Pride bit went over my head when I was younger, but I look back now and so admire these folks.
Back then no one really cared about identity politics as the artist and content was what mattered and was what got you in the charts or attention. Soft Cell and Bronski Beat were great bands and it was the music that was so good and of course the performance art were great too and great lyrics but it was all about great songs and music which I must say is sadly missing these days.
sorry Paolo your wrong in the no one cared if the artist was gay or whatever but the press destroyed Marc Almond with lies same as they tried with George Micheal boy George etc.. and Jimmy sommerville bronski beat song small-town boy was about purely that , it was all identity issues back then
and they never forced their agenda down our throats.... unlike today.
@@TreMolloy#Morrissey was loved for his music rather than his politics, even today.
@aclark903 nonsense morrissey was hated by the right wing press like the sun and mail every article was negative, thats until he destroyed his and the smiths legacy by becoming a one of them .
What a voice! Marc sings from the heart!
try and listen too a recording of chris evans breakfast show on radio 2 (bbc) from a few years ago
its outstanding with marc singing his hits at 8 am in the morning 👍
yea he does just great
I'm 66 and this is definitely one of the eight I'd take with me to a desert island: heartrending perfection from Dave and Marc.
Soft Cell's greatest song and one of the best songs of all time... by anyone
“What about me, well I’ll find someone that’s not going cheap in the sales…” 😳 Ouch, the lyrics really serve up some heartfelt and painful insults
Awesome song, that synth 🥰 Marc Almond’s voice, so iconic
Great lyric
True it is one of my favourites not just the song but the duo. And yes the sound of early eighties synths are something else.
nearly all the lyrics are great - A nice little houswife , give me a steady life and wont keep going off the rails
@@skyblazeeterno yes, agreed - “ you and I it had to be the standing joke of the year, you were a sleep around, a lost and found…” . All the lyrics are savage and bitter and really quite sad, as well as so cutting, they are funny too, in a way…🙈🤷♂️🤗🤗 It’s a masterpiece, IMO.
Well said allison
1 of my top 10 singles of my lifetime
And mine mate sheer class
I’m still watching in 24
A trip down memory lane awesome tune
This is one of the three songs I’m going to have played at my funeral as it is such utter perfection! 🙂
Excuse me for asking, but I'm curious about the other two songs, just my interest..
Yeah, c'mon, we want to know.
@@sgtscheetje The other two being OMD - Messages and Visage - Fade To Grey. SynthPop just means everything to me and that’s what I’m gonna make everyone listen to at my funeral. 😉
@@RailTrack2000 An excellent and impressive choice. Let's hope that it will take many, many years before it will be so far.
If it's not played at my funeral I'm not dying. Simple as
This song is the entire 80s in under 6 minutes.
I don't see the Tony Benn/ Denis Healey leadership contest in it, I have to say
No mention of the miners' strike...
@@paddyeejit1954 How about "the standing joke of the year" and "I've put up with all the scenes and this is one scene that is going to be played my way"
@@paddyeejit1954 I dont know - Thatcher blocked every ageement between the Miners and the Coal Board...say hello wave goodbye?
Or a Vw golf advert 🧐
Amazing. Thank you,-Marc,you🤩😘
Songs like this need to be kept and remembered, so much better than half the crap out nowadays...
...99.9%of the crap nowadays...
David Andrew amen to that
torch was better...........................
David Andrew agree, man
Absolutely 😘👍
You cannot beat 80's music ❤️❤️❤️
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
One of the true great 80’s bands. Bring back so many memories, good and bad, from my youth.
This song is absolutely amazing.
Love soft cell always...😊
What a song! Those synths in the chorus plus the chorus itself is a killer
"I'll find someone whose not going cheap in the sales" is surely one of the bitchiest lines in pop.
Gary numan
Fucking awesome man.not bloody Jessica Rudd,Lovely girl that she is,Jamie Wilson!
Kevin Byrne / Anders van Moog / Techtonik totally agree
It's one their best without a doubt.
Immer und immer wieder... Und immer wieder Tränen in den Augen.... Mein Gott,was für ein Song
Marc Almond a national treasure..
This is a wonderful song. It's a classic now many of them are. This is actually a great song for anyone having undergone domestic violence or abuse in shutting the door on a toxic relationship.
"Take a look at my face for the last time"
"Take your hands off me"
When this came out in the 80s, I was about 14.
We all just thought it was a pop song and nothing more.
Now, 40 yrs later, it says so much more.
Such a great song, on so many levels.
Siggh, getting old sucks at times 😢
62 now with Parkinson's disease but songs like this keep me going every day....great memories of my youth
This will be my funeral song as they unload me from the hearse into the crem. As I go through the curtains, the music will be 'time to say goodbye'. Think i'm kidding? it's already written into my will.
😁😁 Hope it's a long time off brother, but when the day comes, there's no such thing as too loud. 👍👍
Not very wise... When the words come, "Take your hands off me", the pallbearers might think it is a command for them, and they let go of the coffin while they are carrying it... hehehe
Noted...
i was 14,, this song came out,,, i loved it soooooo much,, bought the single, played it in my aunties shed on record,, learned the words,,, 36 years later ,,,,,,,,,, oh my god,,,,,,,,,,, i still love it,,,, still sing it,,,, still dance to it,,,,, soft cell i love ya,, xxx
Tears run rings,another underated classic.
What a voice you have Marc this song is so emotional to me...❤
Marc Almond and Soft Cell are one of the most iconic voices ever. Stunning.
just makes one so proud and brings a smile to my face,,, great song,, awsome singer
Just an 80's masterpiece
"Take your hands of me...." Those lyrics still send shivers down my body the way Marc sings those lryics!
It is right ! " I don't belong to you, you see " Absolute perfection x
Unreal.
80s best decade ever
Wish I could remember most of it!(Those were the days):.
Not many 80s songs bring back so many memories as this does.. Euphoric masterpiece...
the best times of our lives
The 80's were the best. Wish i could go back to this time.
Ditto
Early 80's, me and my brother, driving our dads car, windows wound down, soft cell tape, singing our heads off, everyone looking, couldn't give a crap, just brilliant, thanks so much soft cell, brilliant x
Yea it mirrors lots of us. Tnx.
People look because it's natural, and because I'm sure, also, you two were too cool. 😁
One of these songs you'll always remember....
Great track
Too right
One of Those songs you'll always remember
If you're really unlucky, you'll experience it.
Oh, wow, this is such a track. I bought this album living in 'bedsit land' at the time and I played it over and over. And this track... To me it seemed to describe my life, the new forbidden relationship that you know was never going to work, so you have to end it and you know you'll probably still see that person again in the clubs, but you'll pretend you never knew each other. All that early 1980s uncertainty and insecurity comes back
Spend my money going out, I’ve nothing in , I’m left without… Bedsitter days, custard creams and cider, a complete meal
The best 12" record ever made. Absolute perfection. Have loved Soft Cell since the 80s.
Paul Cole Oh the 12” is incredible!
Yep the 12" version of this is brilliant!
@@SC-jh9qp Yep,i remember buying it!A while later i remember buying the Art of falling apart album,i was one of the first to buy it,first few copies came with a little flexi disc single of a Jimi Hendrix cover,of all things!!Ended up being worth a fair bit of money,even a few months after.
12 inch singles were great,the amount of times i heard a song and thought why in the hell wasn't that longer,and hey presto! ;-)
Take me back to the 80s please god
@@robertcampbell5749 Please take me with you if it is possible. xxxxx
I love Marc Almond and this song is the best 😁 I'm only twenty so obviously wasn't in the 80's my mum and dad used to like soft cell and I appreciate they showed me who he was 😍 I know great music when I hear it 😁
Fenra You're right. I was in the 80s and this song meant so much to us. 🎶
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If u like soft cell, you'll luv Jack Burrell 😊
Hope you are still listening to soft cell now you are 22 😁
Fenra Chalfont brill ! Nostalgia, when life was grand .......... erasure is escapism our if this world, briefly 😉🥰
Just beautiful..best torch song ever.
Marc is the undisputed queen of kitchensink drama.
More power to his eyeliner pencil!
I can't believe this was only uploaded two weeks ago!! One of the greatest songs of all time.
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Was on here year's ago nut got pulled. Glad it's back 😎
I'm a dull and hardened music nerd. 80s synth pop isn't really my thing but this is just one of the most glorious songs ever written.
Glorious is the perfect word to describe. Heavenly is another that comes to mind..
if it's 80's you like, listen to Depeche Mode 👍❤
K.n.ob.
Utter brilliance ❤
Marc at the peak of his vocal prowess - magnificent, I love him !
Spot on.Tears run rings is another classic.
An iconic song of the early 80s which never stops giving me goosebumps.
Lol same xx
Definitely it's hurting my pierced nipples !
The extended version is hauntingly brilliant...that saxaphone Wow!
In January 1982 the crisis and cold war were undermining our moods but Mark Almond let the light in with pure synth, melody, lyrics, purple & orange. Made us dream of home computer music, new wave, fashion and the explosion of creativity that would follow in 83-89.
When the synth kicks in for the chorus it really hits you!
It's not devoid of feeling like modern music it has atmosphere
He makes great records see tenement symphony
modern music is not devoid of feeling, if you like i can recommend you some albums?
I remember my 17 year old son buying this and endlessly playing it, use to irritate me, we played it at his funeral a few years later, I quite like this song, it took a long time to grow on me:)
My condolences.
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Pezzo incredibile... romantico, evocativo, nostalgico. La musica, i sinth e la voce di Marc Almond si fondono alla perfezione formando un capolavoro assoluto.
Mamma mia che bellezza...che bellezza
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This is an utter classic . Listening Christmas day 2020 .
I'm from the future.covid is gone by March.
@@greatwhitesheen fingers crossed mate
Listening Xmas eve 2021..
@@Mark-od3hs Timeless and class
He's got to be one of the most underestimated singer song writers of the 80s . Love all his work , so many memories 😄👍🏼
Haunting and bittersweet.
Marc’s voice was exceptional and Soft Cell were brilliant.
Bedsit, Torch even Tainted Love, simply sublime. Marc Almond could sing the phone book and it would sound beautiful
My ultimative number one song of all times! Thanks to David for this great sound and Marc for the lyrics and performance!
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Every time I hear this it takes me back to the 80s I was in the military posted to Cyprus ,the chorus is as good as it gets in music,one of my all time top favorite songs ,take you’re hands of me wow just blows me away hearing it again,happy days
absolutely
"Taaaake Your Hands Off Me!" What about me well... Just Stunning 80's:Forever! 💖🎶
Camp doesn’t even begin to describe this video. One of their best 👍🏿
Some of the best lyrics ever.
This brilliant & completely ageless creation puts a lump in the throat and tears in the eyes of this absolute lump of a late 50's year old Scotsman... pure unadulterated class.
Same here , what a sound, love it , gorgeous chap is he and im not gay