Soft Cell - Science Fiction Stories & Mutant Moments flac album

The Bedsit Tapes is a compilation of songs recorded by the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell before their record contract with Some Bizzare Records. The album, released 1 August 2005, collects various songs recorded in an amateur studio at Leeds Metropolitan University, then called Leeds Polytechnic, in Leeds. The album includes three tracks which appeared on their rare independent 1980 release, Mutant Moments.

Soft Cell’s first recordings since 1983 are also included, with an unreleased extended version of ‘Divided Soul,’ and the set is completed with Marc and Dave’s favourite tracks from 2002’s comeback album ‘Cruelty Without Beauty’. Disc 7 features ‘Non-Stop Euphoric Dubbing’, a Dave Ball directed 12-suite continuous mix of Soft Cell classics which forms a moody counterpart to the pioneering dub album 1982’s ‘Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing’. This CD also includes a splatter of remixes, including the first ever remix by Erasure, who have remixed ‘Bedsitter’.

Memorabilia (Original Daniel Miller Mix) Persuasion (Original Daniel Miller Mix) Metro MRX (Flexipop Version) A Man Could Get Lost (Daniel Miller Demo) The Girl With The Patent Leather Face (Demo) Tainted Love (Demo) Bedsitter (Demo) Potential (From Mutant Moments EP) . E Feelings (From Mutant Moments EP) Metro MRX (From Mutant Moments EP) Frustration (From Mutant Moments EP) Red Tape, Sticky

Soft Cell embraced the sleazy side of pop music - and not in a subtle way, either. RELATED How Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Gay, Controversial Music Videos Shaped the ’80s. One of the best-loved songs from the album is Sex Dwarf. The original video (NSFW) was so raunchy - featuring a nude bound woman, a BDSM orgy and, of course, a literal sex dwarf - that it was banned before it could be released. A second, tamer video was released instead. The second album was the less creatively titled Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. However, Soft Cell kept with their theme of accurately titled discs. Not only was it a remix album of some of their previous cuts, it was, by Marc Almond’s own admission, recorded while on the drug Ecstasy. The one new track, What? was also a hit, reaching on the . The Art of Falling Apart and This Last Night in Sodom.

The tracks are 'Science Fiction Stories', 'Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché', 'The Girl With The Patent Leather Face' and a special cover of the seminal 1979 Fad Gadget single 'Back To Nature'. The EP is also dedicated to Fad Gadget, aka Frank Tovey, who studied with Marc and Dave at Leeds Polytechnic during their time there.

Soft Cell‘s new 10-disc box set Keychains and Snowstorms includes a DVD with a wealth of content, including promo videos and TV performances. Fans report ‘sporadic’ playback issues, ‘juddering’, non-playback or the disc being very machine sensitive (.  . Potential (From Mutant Moments EP). Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover). Science Fiction Stories (Demo). Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché (Demo). Cleaning Fanatic (Demo).