Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (cover versions)

Sometimes I feel I've got to

Run away I've got to

Get away

From the pain 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 anymore from me

To make things right

You need someone to hold you tight

And you 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 gonna pack my things and go

Tainted love, tainted love (x2)

Touch me baby, tainted love (x2)

Tainted love (x3)

Tainted Love must surely be one of the most influential songs of the 1980s. Known most widely as a song performed by the band Soft Cell, this song was actually originally a 1964 Northern Soul song written by Ed Cobb and performed by Gloria Jones. However, Soft Cell's completely reworked cover version was propelled to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for 43 weeks.

Today, there are many cover versions of the song, some very similar and others radically different. These include covers by 29 Died, Alterno Daze, Coil, Deathline International, Dishwalla, Marilyn Manson, Shades Apart, The Living End, The Pussycat Dolls, The Ramones.

In itself, Tainted Love is a remarkably likeable song. The fact that it has been covered and sampled so extensively proves its ability to transcend both genre and context. Yet, perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that it is the lyrics are so fiercely debated over, and there are so many different interpretations floating around. For me, the significance of this ambiguity is that I can interpret the lyrics any way I want, and transform them so that they are relevant to me, or any situation. I think that is probably the reason this song has been covered so often. The song has so much character that it can be bent and twisted to fit many different bands without losing its individuality.
~~song-review
 

 
Here is a compilation of cover versions by selected artists.

Atrocity - Tainted Love
Coil - Tainted Love
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1964 Version)
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1973 Version)
Inspiral Carpets - Tainted Love
John B. - Tainted Love (Feat. Marcy Meow)
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
Nikolaj Steen - Tainted Love
Palast Orchester & Max Raabe - Tainted Love
Prozac+ - Tainted Love
Pussycat Dolls - Tainted Love
Shaun Inman - Tainted Love (Rough Love)
Social Distortion - Tainted Love
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Speedmaster Project - Tainted Love (Autobahn Mix)
Stella Starlight Trio - Tainted Love
Swampys - Tainted Love
The Flying Pickets - Tainted Love
The Lost Fingers - Tainted Love
Trentemoller - Tainted Love
Union - Falso Amor (Tainted Love)
Unknown - Tainted Love

Wolfsheim - Strange Ways Festival Tour 1994 (1995)

This is a bonus MCD with live recordings from the Strange Ways Festival Tour 1994. It was added to a Wolfsheim - 55578 CD compilation which gathered songs from Wolfsheim's singles spanning the years 1987-1995. Live mix by Carlos Peron at Music Hall, Hannover and Batschkapp, Frankfurt.

1 Kaufraush (Live)
2 Angry Today (Live)
3 This Time (Live)
4 (The Obvious Fact) Scars Remain (And How To Cope With It) (Live)
5 Faith (Live)
6 Following You (Live)

Visage - Fade To Grey (cover versions)

"Fade to Grey" is the second single by the British new romantic/pop group Visage, released on Polydor Records in November 1980. The song was the band's most successful single. It became a huge dance floor hit and entered the singles charts in early 1981, peaking at #8 in the UK Singles Chart and reaching #1 in both Germany and Switzerland.

The song's structure was primarily composed by Billy Currie and Christopher Payne. While setting the track listing of the Visage album, Midge Ure composed the song's lyrics after Billy Currie suggested the use of the melody for the album. Steve Strange had singing lessons with Ure in order to maintain himself in tune and be recorded. Gary Numan commented in interview for the Numan Digest: "As far as I'm concerned Chris and Billy were the driving force behind writing 'Fade to Grey'. They used to work on it during the sound checks on my '79 tour. Cedric [Sharpley, who was the drummer of the Gary Numan's backing band] was also heavily involved. In those days it was called 'Toot City'".

On the UK Channel 4 show "Top Ten New Romantics" in 1999, Steve Strange claimed to have been the one who came up with the idea for the French vocal in the track (a statement disputed by Midge Ure who claims this idea was his). The French vocal was performed by Brigitte Arendt, a young student from Luxembourg who was Rusty Egan's girlfriend at the time.
~~Fade_to_Grey_(Visage_song)
Again, the compilation was made for my own purposes.

Agressiva 69 - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Atrocity - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Castro Boy - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Datura - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Ed Starink - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Evereve - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Future Breeze - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Gregorian - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Mark 'Oh - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Monumentum - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Neon - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Noisia - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Nouvelle Vague - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
The Konki Duet - Il Fait Tout Gris (Visage Cover)
The Last Days Of Jesus - Fade to Grey (Visage Cove
Transparent Sound - Fade To Grey (Visage Cover)
Visage - Fade To Grey (DJ 2008 Remix)

Visage - Fade To Grey (Bassheads '93 Remix) (1993)

A Fade To Grey remix CD which was released in 1993 to promote the compilation album with the same title, becoming a modest Top 40 hit.

Devenir gris

Devenir gris

One man on a lonely platform

One case sitting by his side

Two eyes staring cold and silent

Show fear as he turns to hide

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Un homme dans une gare isolee

Une valise a ses cote

Des yeux fixes et froids

Montre de la peur lorsqu'il

Se tourne pour se cacher

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Sent la pluie comme un ete Anglais

Entends les notes d'une chanson lointaine

Sortant de derriere d'un poster

Esperant que la vie ne fut aussi longue

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Feel the rain like an English summer

Hear the notes from a distant song

Stepping out from a back shop poster

Wishing life wouldn't be so long

Devenir gris

Aah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Devenir gris

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Devenir gris

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Devenir gris

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey)

Aaah, we fade to grey (fade to grey

1 Fade To Grey (Bassheads 7" Edit) 3:22
   Remix - Andy Stevenson , Bassheads
2 Fade To Grey (7" Remix) 3:37
   Remix - Daryl Stickley , Tim Wedge
3 Fade To Grey (Original 7" Mix) 3:51
4 Fade To Grey (Wild Cat Mix) 7:48
   Remix - Daryl Stickley , Tim Wedge

The Jeremy Days - The Jeremy Days (1988)

The Jeremy Days, was a German pop band from Hamburg, which was founded in 1987. The band originally consisted of Dirk Darmstaedter (vocals, guitar), Christoph Kaiser (bass, vocals), Louis C. Oberlander (keyboards), Stefan Rager (drums) and Jörn-Christof halibut (guitar).
In 1988  The Jeremy Days debut album was produced by the British producer-team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. The record sold about 150,000 copies and the single Brand New Toy came up to the 11th position in the German charts.
~~http://www.jeremydays.de/

1. Julie Thru The Blinds
2. Are You Inventive
3. Brand New Toy
4. That's What I Call Love
5. Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
6. Fantastic Friend
7. Food And Coffee
8. This World
9. Starting To Pretend
10. Raintree Country
11. The End

The Cars - Drive (cover versions)

who's gonna tell you when

it's too late

who's gonna tell you things

aren't so great

you can't go on

thinking nothing's wrong

who's gonna drive you home tonight

who's gonna pick you up

when you fall

who's gonna hang it up

when you call

who's gonna pay attention

to your dreams

who's gonna plug their ears

when you scream

you can't go on

thinking nothing's wrong

who's gonna drive you home tonight

who's gonna hold you down

when you shake

who's gonna come around

when you break

"Drive" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's Heartbeat City album and their biggest international hit. It was written by Ric Ocasek, and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and The Cars. Lead vocals were by Cars' bassist Benjamin Orr.
"Drive" was The Cars' highest charting single in the United States, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. On the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went all the way to #1. It also got to #5 in the UK singles chart, becoming their second biggest UK hit, then was re-released in the UK in 1985 (after the Live Aid performance at JFK Stadium), this time charting at #4. The song was also a big hit in what was West Germany, reaching #4, and in Canada, reaching #6. In addition, it was famously used as part of the Live Aid concert in 1985, as the background music to a montage of clips showing poverty-stricken Africa. Bob Geldof later claimed that phone calls to the appeal switchboards escalated dramatically during the song.

The music video for the song stars, besides Ocasek and Orr, Czech-born supermodel Paulina Porizkova, who later married Ocasek. The video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton.
~~internet

A cover by Ziggy Marley featured in the film "50 First Dates" (2004). The song also appears in the film "Transformers" (2007). The band Deftones covered this song on the album 'Saturday Night Wrist'.
Deftones' cover version appeared on the trailer of the 2009 remake "The Stepfather". The song was also covered in 2000 by the New Zealand group, Strawpeople, featuring the vocalist Bic Runga. A cover by the Australian band, The Paradise Motel (from "Flight Paths" album), appeared in the film "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand". In 2006 the Portuguese band (singing in English) Blind Zero featured this 80's classic, too. Scorpions present a live version of the song from "Acoustica" album. Finally, Drive was covered on the Double You album "We All Need Love." The compilation was put together for my own purposes :)

01 - The Cars - Drive

02 - The Paradise Motel - Drive (The Cars Cover)

03 - Scorpions - Drive (The Cars Cover)

04 - Deftones - Drive (The Cars Cover)

05 - Blind Zero - Drive (The Cars Cover)

06 - Ziggy Marley - Drive (The Cars Cover)

07 - Strawpeople - Drive (The Cars Cover)

08 - Double You - Drive (The Cars Cover)

09 - The Cars - Drive (Ultrasound Extended Version)

Depeche Mode - Live in London 1982 (1991)

Koncertowy bootleg z A Broken Frame Tour z Hammersmith Odeon, Londyn (25 paź 1982). Pełen tytuł tego wydania to: Super Golden Radio Shows No.045 (SGRS 045) Live In London (82-10-25).

01. My Secret Garden
02. See You
03. Satelite
04. New Life
05. Boys Say Go
06. Tora! Tora! Tora!
07. Nothing To Fear
08. Shouldn't Have Done That
09. The Meaning Of Love
10. Just Can't Get Enough
11. A Photograph Of You
12. The Sun And The Rainfall