The Very Best of Soft Cell (2002)

The Very Best of Soft Cell is an official compilation album by Soft Cell. The album was released on April 16, 2002 and was approved by the band; it includes most of the hit singles and also some b-sides, such as Insecure Me (in a newly edited version) and It's A Mug's Game. The song Numbers was also considerably shortened for this release, but it's AA side Barriers is missing. Two new songs, Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime and Divided Soul, and two brand new remixes of Tainted Love and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye were also included. The album reached #37 on the UK Top 40 chart.

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of "Tainted Love" and influential multi-platinum debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. In the UK, they had ten Top 40 hits, including "Bedsitter" (#4), "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (#3), "Torch" (#2), and "What!" (#3), and also had four Top 20 albums between 1981 and 1984. The duo split in 1984, but reformed in the early 2000s to tour and released a new album in 2002. Their songs have been covered by various artists including Nine Inch Nails, David Gray, Nouvelle Vague and A-ha. Soft Cell's track "Memorabilia" recognized the band as pioneers of techno style. The duo have sold 10 millions records worldwide.

David Ball,  Marc Almond

The Very Best of Soft Cell
2002
SOFT CELL
Marc Almon(v), David Ball(i)

Track listing

1. "Memorabilia" - 4:51
2. "Tainted Love" - 2:42
3. "Where Did Our Love Go?" - 3:11
4. "Bedsitter" - 3:39
5. "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - 5:27
6. "Sex Dwarf" - 5:18
7. "Torch" - 4:09
8. "Insecure Me" - 3:13
9. "What?" - 4:35
10. "Where the Heart Is" - 4:35
11. "It's a Mugs Game" - 5:27
12. "Numbers" - 3:34
13. "Loving You Hating Me" - 4:31
14. "Soul Inside" - 4:31
15. "Down in the Subway" - 3:28
16. "Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime" - 4:11
17. "Divided Soul" - 4:05
18. "Tainted Love" (2XS Remix) - 3:19
19. "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (Almighty Radio Edit) - 4:33

nWu BONUS

"Kitchen Sink Drama"
"Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?" (Ecstacy Mix)
"Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?" (Mix)
"Tainted Love" (Club 69 Remix)
"Tainted Love" (Remix)

SAY HELLO WAVE GOODBYE (LYRICS) Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo Crying in the rain It was a kind of so so love And I'm going to make sure it never Happens again You and I It had to be The standing joke of the year You were a sleep around A lost and found And not for me I fear I tried to make it work You in a cocktail skirt And me in a suit (Well it just wasn't me) You're used to wearing less And now your life's a mess So insecure you see I put up with all the scenes And this is one scene That's going to be played my way Take your hands off me I don't belong to you, you see Take a look at my face For the last time I never knew you You never knew me Say hello goodbye Say hello wave goodbye Under the deep red light I can see the makeup sliding down Hey little girl you will always make up So take off that unbecoming frown What about me- well I'll find someone That's not going cheap in the sales A nice little housewife Who'll give me a steady life And won't keep going off the rails Take your hands off me I don't belong to you, you see Take a look at my face For the last time I never knew you You never knew me Say hello goodbye Say hello wave goodbye We've been involved For quite a while now And to keep you secret has been hell We're strangers meeting for the first time, okay? Just smile and say hello Say hello then wave goodbye Say hello then wave goodbye (x3) Say hello wave goodbye Say hello then wave goodbye Say hello say goodbye Goodbye Say goodbye Say goodbye Goodbye...

WHAT (LYRICS) Do you want me to Get down on my knees Beg you baby, please Cry a million tears Do you want me to Call you on the phone Beg you to come home Think of all the years When I once lived in paradise When the love light shone in your eyes Chorus: Oh baby What can I do when I still love you What can I say when I still want you What can I do What can I say You'll never know this way Do you want me to Follow you around Everywhere in town Do you want a clown Why do you Treat me mean and cruel Breaking every rule Can I be your fool We can make this a happy home So come back where you belong Chorus Please forgive me, come back, and then We can fall in love Over and over and over and over again Oh baby What can I do when I still love you What can I say when I still want you Won't you come back Oh baby, what can I say I said, what can I do Oh baby, what can I say I said, won't you come back I said, won't you come back I said, what can I do I said, what can I say I said, won't you come back I said, won't you come back Won't you come back Oh baby, won't you come back Oh baby, what can I say I said, what, what, what? can I say Won't you come back Won't you come back Won't you Won't you come back What can I say What can I say What can I do What can I do What can I say What can I say Won't you come back Won't you come back What can I do, do, do, do What can I do (What, what, what?)

kitchen sink drama (lyrics) Passing time in the afternoon Cleaning the bathroom floor Rearrange things in the dining room Covers the chip on the kitchen door The paperboy winks as he hands her a paper He's cheekier every day She undoes her apron and sinks on the sofa Throws all her household chores away She's in a fantasy It's not so hard to see That she is living a lie She'll never be the same She shuts her eyes again Waves all her worries goodbye Puts on her make-up And smoothes down her dress And finds the right words to say Holds a remaining spark of beauty Escape is only a romance away Troubles come flooding back with her migraine She trembles and shuts her eyes It's a good thing that friends come in little bottles Time to shake up and prepare for the lies She's in a fantasy It's not so hard to see That she is living a lie She'll never be the same She shuts her eyes again Waves all her worries goodbye Pushing the hair back from her face Shaping her thoughts in the sky Heaven is through her kitchen window "Pity it's only a dream", she sighs Imagines herself as Elizabeth Taylor The paperboy cycles away She turns on the stove Soon her husband is home "Hello dear, it's been such a long day" She's in a fantasy It's not so hard to see That she is living a lie She'll never be the same She shuts her eyes again Waves all her worries goodbye She's in a fantasy It's not so hard to see That she is living a lie She'll never be the same She shuts her eyes again Waves all her worries goodbye

TAINTED LOVE (LYRICS)

Sometimes I feel I've got to run away
I've got to get away from the pain that you drive into the heart of me
The love we share seems to go nowhere and I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you (I ran) now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love, tainted love

Now I know I've got to run away I've got to get away
You don't really want it any more from me to make things right
You need someone to hold you tight and you'LL think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you (I ran) now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love, tainted love

Don't touch me please I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so now I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted love, tainted love, tainted love, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love, touch me baby, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love, tainted love