So I guess being a child of the 80’s, I sincerely believed that “Tainted Love” by Softcell was the original version of the song. Happily in this case, I was dead wrong.
Listen for yourself. I like this 60’s version a hell of a lot better!
If you prefer the original though, here is John Scalzi doing his rendition of the Softcell rendition complete with English accent.
Hahahah.
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March 24th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I had no idea SoftCell’s version wasn’t the original. Since I hated theirs with a passion, there’s no contest which is better (and it’s not Scalzi’s).
March 24th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Oh I don’t know – Scalzi’s version wasn’t all that bad. And Kate, you need to fix the link to that. It has an http// that shouldn’t be there.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I had no idea either, but I perfer Soft Cell’s version.