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[...] 'Tainted Love,' 1985, directed by the Coil, music by the Coil.
April sees the release of a 12" -a de-structured version of Panic, coupled with a short track called "Aqua Regis" and our desecratory but sensitive (!) version of "Tainted Love". A new slant is given to this title since all profits from this EP are being donated to AIDS counciling via the Terrence Higgins Trust.
[...] The Panic 12" here, we were using video recording techniques and we had never done it before and the guy working in the studio certainly had never done it before. We were editing sound digitally with videos and we had never done it before, but it's okay because we did it then.
When we came to record their version of "Tainted Love," I felt Geff's vocal was too deadpan. I asked Sleazy to go into the vocal booth with him and wrench his arm behind his back, and pull on it now and then, to put a bit of pain into the performance. They liked this idea and it improved the vocal immensely.
Our 12 single of 'Tainted Love' was the first record release ever to benefit AIDS charities. We would like to dedicate this release to all those suffering from HIV related illnesses, to their friends and families, and most of all, to those people who continue to care for them
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) Howard, Yetta (December 2017). "The Queerness of Industrial Music". Social Text. 35 (4). Duke University Press: 33–51. doi:10.1215/01642472-4223381. eISSN 1527-1951. ISSN 0164-2472.[...] Despite a successful AIDS fundraising effort with the Tainted Love EP and video, the duo were left to cope with the fact that friends and associates were continuing to die.
Coil's cover of Soft Cell's cover of Gloria Jones's 'Tainted Love' is a prime example. The first ever AIDS benefit release, the track was far too slow for any approach to dancing not rooted in comedy. But the video provided more than enough spectacle to compensate. Directed by Coil founder and Throbbing Gristle alumnus Peter Christopherson, it features Coil's John Balance, first as an AIDS victim in the final weeks of his life, then as a dead person being wheeled around by Christopherson, who was dressed as a hospital orderly. (Soft Cell veteran Marc Almond's brief cameo as a smirking hospital visitor marks the only appearance of another human.) The video's marriage of artful surreality and gut-wrenching realism helped make it the Museum of Modern Art's first music video acquisition.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) Howard, Yetta (December 2017). "The Queerness of Industrial Music". Social Text. 35 (4). Duke University Press: 33–51. doi:10.1215/01642472-4223381. eISSN 1527-1951. ISSN 0164-2472.[...] 'Tainted Love,' 1985, directed by the Coil, music by the Coil.