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Soft CellNon-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Label:

Some Bizzare – BZLP 2

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Electronic, Pop

Style:

Synth-pop, New Wave

Tracklist

A1Frustration
SaxophoneDave Tofani
A2Tainted Love
EngineerPaul Hardiman
Written-ByEd Cobb
A3Seedy Films
ClarinetDave Tofani
A4Youth
A5Sex Dwarf
B1Entertain Me
B2Chips On My Shoulder
B3Bedsitter
B4Secret Life
B5Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
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Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Phonogram Ltd.
  • Copyright ©Phonogram Ltd.
  • Published ByMetropolis (7)
  • Published ByWarner Bros. Music Ltd.
  • Published ByIntersong Music
  • Recorded AtCamden Cell Studios
  • Recorded AtAdvision Studios
  • Pressed ByPRS Ltd.
  • Lacquer Cut AtSterling Sound

Credits

  • Artwork [Padded Cell]Huw Feather
  • Backing VocalsVicious Pink Phenomena
  • DesignAndrew Prewett
  • EngineerDon Wershba (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
  • Engineer [Assistant]Andy Hoggman, Michael Christopher (2), Nicky Kalliongis
  • Instruments [Electronic And Acoustic]David Ball*
  • Make-UpVivien P
  • Mastered ByArun Chakavertz*, Jack Skinner
  • Mixed ByHarvey Goldberg
  • Photography ByAshworth*
  • ProducerMike Thorne
  • VocalsMarc Almond
  • Written-ByD. Ball* (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
  • Written-By, Lyrics ByM. Almond* (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)

Notes

Recorded in Camden Cell Studios, London, except
"Tainted Love" recorded at Advision Studios, London.

Printed inner sleeve with Marc Almond's lyrics, so omitting 'Tainted Love'.

[Publishers]:
Tracks A1, A3 to B5 Metropolis/Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Track A2 Intersong Music.

[Labels]
© 1981 Phonogram Ltd. ℗ 1981 Phonogram Ltd.

Runouts are stamped, with letter and number combinations (A, B, 1, 2, 0, 6, etc.) and "Side B" after STERLING etched. Character A after STERLING in variants 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 is upside down, as is 1 in variant 7. Character B after STERLING in variant 5 is reversed. Variants 2 and 4 are fully stamped.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 1): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING A 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 1): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING 1 6 Side B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 2): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST STERLING
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 2): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 3): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING A 2 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 3): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 1 B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 4): BZLP 2 A//3▽420W 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 4): BZLP 2B//1▽EST STERLING 2 B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 5): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST L5 STERLING A 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 5): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING L2 B 3
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 6): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST L5 STERLING A 6
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 6): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 9 Side B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 7): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING A 1 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 7): BZLP 2 B//1 ▽EST STERLING 1 1 B 2 0
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 8): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 6 STERLING A 1 4
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 8): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 1 1 Side B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 9): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING A 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 9): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 1 STERLING 4 Side B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 10): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 14 STERLING A 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 10): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING 1 1 B 4 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 11): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 1 STERLING A 1 4
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 11): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST STERLING 5 1 Side B

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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Repress, Stereo)Celluloid, Vogue, Some Bizzare529814France1981
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album)Vertigo, Some BizzareVOG-1-3309Canada1981
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album)Vertigo, Some Bizzare63 59 087Spain1981
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Jacksonville Pressing)SireSRK 3647US1981
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Stereo)Vertigo6359 087Netherlands1981

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Reviews

  • wild-mouse's avatar
    wild-mouse
    Production is gorgeous, be it the sparseness of Seedy Films or the frenzied layers of Sex Dwarf (which is possibly the best song ever written). This pressing sounds incredible.
    Music: 9/10
    Pressing: 9/10
    • eltigreferoz's avatar
      eltigreferoz
      Best album cover of all time. You want to know what the album sounds like? Look at this sleeve.
      • Sumogirl's avatar
        Sumogirl
        It's been over 30 years since I've listened to this album. It holds up extremely well. I had forgotten how much I LOVE Soft Cell. I knew I liked them, but had forgotten I loved them.

        First, Marc Almond's voice is amazing. Even songs that with another artist would be boring, his voice holds you and entices you to listen deeply to the lyrics he is singing. The result is an album where every song is worth listening to and feeling too.

        Several of the songs were hits. Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf for example. The album ending with Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, is just - very satisfying.

        Great album.
        • vegasbiss's avatar
          vegasbiss
          One of the best albums of all time. A masterpice of synthpop!
          • Galge's avatar
            Galge
            Marc Almond sang "Youth has gone, but somehow I don't really mind" and "Chips on my shoulder, more as I get older" at age 24?! WTF!
            • Nnnniiii's avatar
              Nnnniiii
              if you turn the back of the cover 90° to the right, the sign on the bottom right looks like sausages on a grill
              • Misannthorpe's avatar
                Misannthorpe
                It would appear that I'm the only person here that doesn't think Non stop erotic cabaret is Soft Cell's best album!
                • darkdubh's avatar
                  darkdubh
                  I have a copy that matches the UK first press in every way except its got black and white labels.Anyone else come across this?
                  • Booj1Boy's avatar
                    Booj1Boy
                    A seemingly concept album with two main concepts, 'social anxiety' and 'deviant sexuality'. Just in the first three tracks, the album takes us from having a mid-life crisis ("Frustration"), to a failed relationship ("Tainted Love"), to going downtown to the Red Light District, going to porno theaters and other classy things. David Ball's extremely talented layered synth melodies hook you in and go perfectly with Marc Almond's varied singing. The album produced the infamous "Sex Dwarf" track, about Hardcore BDSM, with an appropriate video that was seized by authorities. This incident was parodied in their video album "Non-Stop Exotic Video Show", where they recounted the incident and made a new Sex Dwarf video that was purposfully terrible and pointless.

                    A complete and utter Synthpop classic
                    5/5
                    • realmdemagic's avatar
                      realmdemagic
                      I just listened to this album for the first time less than a month ago and had to get it. I've owned the singles collection for more than a decade, but I had no idea this album was so amazing! I read that only two synths were used, but they must have used them well, because this sounds WAY ahead of it's time. I can't wait to check out the other Soft Cell albums.

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