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The singles were issued to promote a new Soft Cell/Marc Almond compilation album, Memorabilia - The Singles, which collected some of the biggest hits from Almond's career throughout the previous ten years. [21] The album was produced by musician/arranger Andrei Samsonov. 3), "Soul Inside" (UK No. Memorabillia '91 Soft Cell Memorabilia. It also reached number one in Germany and was a major hit in countries around the world. [42][43], Almond released three albums throughout 2014. Picked to tell a story of his life and career, the album featured songs as diverse as "I Have Lived" by Charles Aznavour, to "Stardom Road" by Third World War, Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night", and "Kitsch" by Paul Ryan. [51] In September 2017 the album Shadows & Reflections was released, entering the UK chart at No.14. "Black Kiss", "Tragedy" and "My Love" were the singles from the album Open All Night. The album was promoted by the singles "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91" and "Tainted Love '91". Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. Lyrics. Surrender To A Stranger Lyrics: 2. Almond states that the ceremony involved "no dancing naked, no bonfires, no blood sacrifice", but even so "every hair on my neck stood on end and sweat broke out on my top lip. [38] Anohni has stated that Torment and Toreros was her favourite album throughout her teens and that it became the starting point for Antony and the Johnsons. He later became a great fan of Marc Bolan and David Bowie and got a part-time job as a stable boy to fund his musical tastes. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of "Tainted Love" and influential multi-platinum debut ''Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret''. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91 Marc Almond & Soft Cell; Widow Weeds Marc Almond; Toreador In The Rain Marc Almond; Waifs And Strays Marc Almond; Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem The World) Marc Almond; Mother Fist Marc Almond; Please Stay Mekon feat. [44] This was followed by The Dancing Marquis album, made with a number of collaborators including Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barât and Jools Holland, featuring production from Tony Visconti on some tracks. Marc and the Mambas was a loose experimental collective that set the template for the artist that Almond would become. Almond performed for the event at the Royal Albert Hall. [29], In June 2010, Almond released Varieté, his first studio album of self written material since Stranger Things in 2001. Lyrics. "[56][57] Almond later stated in a 2016 interview with Loud and Quiet that the initiation was "a theatrical joke that got a bit out of hand" and that he is not a Satanist. Memorabilia – The Singles is a compilation album of songs by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond, both as a solo artist and with his partner Dave Ball as the synthpop duo Soft Cell. Waifs And Strays (Grid Twilight Mix) Remix – The Grid. 3), "Torch" (UK No. Produced by Mike Hedges, it featured musicians from the Mambas outfit, Annie Hogan, Martin McCarrick and Billy McGee. ... by Gene Pitney / Soft Cell. Soft Cell - Waifs & Strays - tekst piosenki, tłumaczenie piosenki i teledysk. Track 7, "Soul Inside", incorrectly listed in the booklet as 7:36. 2), "What!" In 2011, Almond released the Feasting with Panthers album, a collaboration with musician and arranger Michael Cashmore. Thing is, most of these are remixes and reworkings from 1991, not the original recordings, which means it's hardly of interest to the audience who just wants the original versions of Soft Cell's greatest moments. [19], Almond re-invented himself and signed to Echo records in 1998 with a more downbeat and atmospheric electronica album, Open All Night. Memorabillia '91 (12 version) Soft Cell. Reed states that he has written 15 songs for the project commenting that Against Nature is "still probably one of the most decadent books ever written" and that Almond had always wanted to perform it, stating that "now we're both jaded aesthetes we could do it". 16), and the club hit "Memorabilia". The majority of the Soft Cell singles on this compilation are not the original versions and have new re-recorded vocals and some new musical recordings and remixing, with the exception of "Torch" and "Soul Inside". The latter album was highly acclaimed in reviews, with Ned Raggett writing that the 'Mother Fist' album "embraces classic European cabaret to wonderful effect, more so than any American or English rock album since Bowie's Aladdin Sane or Lou Reed's Berlin."[15]. Zobacz słowa utworu Waifs & Strays wraz z teledyskiem i tłumaczeniem. That's why they turn to you. [36] It was written for him by Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell. They don't know what to do. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of "Tainted Love" and influential multi-platinum debut ''Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret''. [5], Almond was born in Southport, Lancashire,[6] the son of Sandra Mary Diesen and Peter John Sinclair Almond, a Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. Tainted Love '91 Soft Cell. [45] Finally, Almond released a studio recording of his 2011 show, Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle. [24] Near death and in a coma for weeks, he suffered two huge blood clots and had to undergo emergency surgery twice. He was brought up nearby at his grandparents' house in Birkdale with his younger sister, Julia, and as a child suffered from bronchitis and asthma. [37] The production also featured ex-Libertines member Carl Barât, French singer-songwriter Benjamin Biolay, Swedish singer Fredrika Stahl and was directed by ex-Clash drummer Peter Howard. Accompanied only by Martin Watkins on piano, he played small Soviet halls and theatres, often without amplification, and ended at the "mini Bolshoi" in Moscow. I Feel Love Soft Cell. During his time at art college, he did a series of performance theatre pieces: Zazou, Glamour in Squalor, Twilights and Lowlifes, as well as Andy Warhol inspired mini-movies. I think it's time to leave it to younger people. Download album for just $2.25. 4), "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (UK No. Tainted Love [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] Soft Cell Chick Flicks: The Collection. Brel became a major influence. Two singles came out of this album, "Monoculture" and a cover of the Frankie Valli's "The Night", which led to a Top of the Pops appearance for the band, their first since the mid 1980s.[23]. In 2012, Almond took the role of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca in the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet's experimental rock adaptation of Poppea, based on Monteverdi's original 17th-century opera The Coronation of Poppea. [8] After his parents' divorce in 1972, he moved with his mother back to Southport where he attended King George V School. It featured poetry set to music, including the poems of Count Eric Stenbock, Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Paul Verlaine and Rimbaud. Waifs & Strays - Grid Twilight Mix is a very happy song bySoft Cellwith a tempo of 199 BPM. In June 2007, Almond released an album of cover songs, Stardom Road. [46], 2015 saw the release of The Velvet Trail, an album of original material produced by Chris Braide. View Soft Cell song lyrics by popularity along with songs featured in, albums, videos and song meanings. [27] In July 2007, Almond celebrated his 50th birthday on stage at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London and in September performed at a tribute show to Marc Bolan, his teenage hero. [35] Ten Plagues is a one-man song cycle based on Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (which dates back to 1722), with metaphors of Aids and epidemics. A LOVER SPURNED (DIR. Released in March 1991 on Some Bizzare (catalog no. Fantastic Star was Almond's last album with a major record label, and the period also marked the ending of his managerial relationship with Stevo Pearce. Mark Peter Sinclair "Marc" Almond, OBE is an English singer-songwriter and musician. [2] Almond's career spanning over four decades has enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim, and he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. In October 2004, Almond was seriously injured in a motorbike accident near St Paul's Cathedral, London. JOHN MAYBURY) Format: 2CD/1DVD Expanded Deluxe Edition Capacity Wallet Barcode: 5013929849624 Label: Cherry Red Records [20] Featuring many Russian stars old and new such as Boris Grebenshchikov, Ilya Lagutenko of the Russian band Mumiy Troll, Lyudmila Zykina and Alla Bayanova and featuring The Rossiya Folk Orchestra conducted by Anatole Sobolev, it was the first time that such a project had been undertaken by a Western artist, many of the loved Soviet era songs sung in English for the first time. This album was released in 1993 as Absinthe, and was initially recorded in the late 1980s then finished in Paris in the early 1990s. He listened at first to progressive music, blues, and rock, and bands such as Free, Jethro Tull, Van der Graaf Generator, The Who, and The Doors. Track 13, "Waifs And Strays" is incorrectly listed on the disc as 5:08. [20], In 2001, Soft Cell reunited briefly and released their first new album in 18 years, Cruelty Without Beauty. Two years later they returned to Southport, and then moved to Horsforth, West Yorkshire. [citation needed]. Almond's career spanning over four decades has enjoyed … Transmitted live on television Almond made a plea for tolerance of gay people. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. Memorabilia. [40] He also performed with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on stage performing Tull's concept album "Thick as a Brick" at The Royal Albert Hall. The album featured a duet ("Threat of Love") with Siouxsie Sioux as well as one ("Almost Diamonds") with Kelli Ali (then of the Sneaker Pimps). Almond became involved with the New York Underground Art Scene at this time with writer/DJ Anita Sarko, which led him to meet artists including Andy Warhol and perform at a number of Art events. 1 in the UK. [52], Almond's next solo album, Chaos and a Dancing Star, also written with Braide, was released January 2020. Artist: Soft Cell Album: Memorabilia Year: 1991 Label: Mercury. With the encouragement and connections of executive producer Misha Kucherenko, he embarked on a three-year recording project of Russian romance and folk songs, called Heart on Snow. The compilation was released as an LP, CD, cassette and VHS video in May 1991, receiving positive reviews. Lyrics: 10. The album was produced by Alexei Fedorov and features an orchestra arranged by Anatole Sobolev. Soft Cell's first release was an independent record (funded by Dave Ball's mother) entitled "Mutant Moments" via Red Rhino Records in 1980.[13]. "Tainted Love", a cover of a Gloria Jones Northern Soul classic, was number one in the UK and in many countries over the world, and was in the Guinness Book of Records for a while as the record that spent the longest time in the Billboard Top 100 chart in the US. Waifs and Strays Soft Cell. While almost every Soft Cell single (to that date) was included in the package, the compilers opted to overlook all of Almond's solo and Mambas work up to 1988 except for his 1985 collaboration with Bronski Beat. Soft Cell brought an otherwise obscure Northern Soul classic to mass public attention and their version of the song is, to date, the UK's 59th best-selling single of all time, selling over one million copies in the UK.[14]. 1), "Bedsitter" (UK No. The duo are principally known for their 1981 hit version of "Tainted Love" (#8 US) and 1981 debut album titled Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. We have 7 albums and 76 song lyrics in our database. Stardom Road was to be one of three albums for the Sanctuary label, the UK's largest independent record label up until 2007[26] when it got itself into financial difficulty and was sold off in June 2007 to Universal Music Group. From then on, Almond "followed everything Marc Bolan did" and it was his obsession with Bolan that prompted Almond to adopt the "Marc" spelling of his name. He gained two O-Levels in Art and English and was accepted onto a General Art and Design course at Southport College, specialising in Performance Art. [3] He spent a month in a coma after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004 and later became a patron of the brain trauma charity Headway. [9], Almond applied to Leeds Polytechnic, where he was interviewed by Jeff Nuttall, also a performance artist, who accepted him on the strength of his performing skills. Last Chance Lyrics: 5. [49], In 2016, Marc Almond signed his first major label deal for 20 years, signing a two-album deal with BMG Rights Management. Remix – The Grid. 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