| Releases | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↙Studio albums | 5 | |
| ↙Live albums | 3 | |
| ↙Compilation albums | 11 | |
| ↙EPs | 2 | |
| ↙Singles | 17 | |
| ↙Video albums | 2 | |
This is the discography of Soft Cell, a British synthpop duo consisting of Marc Almond and Dave Ball who rose to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo broke up in 1984 after releasing four albums, but reunited in the early 2000s for a series of live dates and released an album of new material in 2002.
Contents |
| Year | Album Information | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.K. [1] |
NZ [2] |
U.S. [3] |
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| 1981 | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
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5 | 7 | 22 | |
| 1982 | Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
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6 | – | 57† | |
| 1983 | The Art of Falling Apart
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5 | – | 84 | |
| 1984 | This Last Night in Sodom
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12 | – | – | |
| 2002 | Cruelty Without Beauty
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116 | – | – | |
† As an EP in the US, Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing also peaked at number 31 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
| Year | Album Information | Additional information |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Live
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2003 European tour |
Soft Cell at the BBC
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Live sessions in 1981-1983 |
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| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Mutant Moments
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| Year | Title | Album | Chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.K. [6] |
AUS | IRE [7] |
NZ [2] |
NL [8] |
GER [6] |
FRA [9] |
POL [9] |
BEL [10] |
U.S. [11] |
U.S. Dance [11] |
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| 1980 | "A Man Could Get Lost" "Memorabilia" |
Mutant Moments | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| "Memorabilia" "Persuasion" |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 35 | ||
| 1981 | "Tainted Love" / "Where Did Our Love Go?" "Memorabilia" |
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 8 | 4 |
| "Bedsitter" "Facility Girls" |
4 | – | 10 | – | – | – | 4 | – | 29 | – | – | ||
| 1982 | "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" "Fun City" |
3 | – | 12 | – | 30 | 29 | – | – | 30 | – | – | |
| "Torch" "Insecure... Me?" |
— | 2 | – | 7 | – | 12 | 75 | – | 15 | 9 | – | 31 | |
| "What!" "So..." |
Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing | 3 | – | 6 | – | – | 64 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 101 | – | |
| 1983 | "Where the Heart Is" "It's a Mug's Game" |
The Art of Falling Apart | 21 | – | 14 | – | – | – | – | 27 | – | – | – |
| "Numbers" / "Barriers" | 25 | – | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| "Soul Inside" "You Only Live Twice" |
This Last Night in Sodom | 16 | – | 13 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1984 | "Down in the Subway" "Disease and Desire" |
24 | – | 20 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1991 | "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91" "Memorabilia '91" |
Memorabilia - The Singles | 38 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| "Tainted Love '91" "Where the Heart Is" |
5 | – | 4 | – | – | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1999 | "Tainted Love" (Soft Cell vs. Club 69) |
— | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 |
| 2002 | "Monoculture" "Dancing Alone" |
Cruelty Without Beauty | 52 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2003 | "The Night" "Perversity" |
39 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Year | Title | Format | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show
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VHS | Reissued on DVD in 2004 |
| 1991 | Memorabilia - The Singles
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VHS | Soft Cell with Marc Almond - video compilation released alongside the 1991 compilation album of the same name |
| 2002 | Live in Milan
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DVD |
| Year | Title | Label | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Some Bizarre (album) | Some Bizarre | Compilation featuring exclusive track "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face". |
| 1982 | Metro MRX | Flexi | 1982 green flexi-disc free with Flexi-Pop magazine. |
| 1983 | "Heat" [7" edit] c/w "It's a Mug's Game" [7" edit] | U.S. single release | |
| 1982 | "Loving You, Hating Me" (special remix) | U.S. only single release |