The Singles (Soft Cell album)

The Singles
Compilation album by Soft Cell
Released 1986
Recorded 1981-1984
Genre Synthpop
Length 47:25
Label Some Bizarre
BZLP/MC 3 / 830 708-2
Producer Mike Thorne / Daniel Miller
Soft Cell
Soft Cell chronology
This Last Night in Sodom
(1984)		 The Singles
(1986)		 Memorabilia - The Singles
(1991)
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The Singles is the first compilation album to be released by Soft Cell. The album was issued on vinyl, cassette and CD in 1986 and features all their singles, in chronological order, from the albums Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, The Art of Falling Apart and This Last Night in Sodom.[2] The CD booklet includes a November 1986 essay by Tony Mitchell.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Marc Almond and David Ball except where noted.

  1. "Memorabilia" - 4:50
  2. "Tainted Love" (Ed Cobb) - 2:40
  3. "Bedsitter" - 3:36
  4. "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - 5:25
  5. "Torch" - 4:08
  6. "Loving You, Hating Me" - 4:19
  7. "What?" (H.B. Barnum) - 4:34
  8. "Where the Heart Is" - 4:32
  9. "Numbers" - 4:56
  10. "Soul Inside" - 4:29
  11. "Down in the Subway" (Jack Hammer) - 3:26

Notes

"Loving You, Hating Me" was the proposed third UK single from The Art of Falling Apart. It was never actually released in the UK and only saw release as a single in the US.[3]

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Soft-Cell-The-Singles/master/2712
  3. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Soft-Cell-Loving-You-Hating-Me/master/211470

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