Ba-dink-dink...

If you're of a certain age, then "Ba-dink-dink..." will conjure up drunken lunges onto the dancefloor, crazed dancing and manic singalongs with girlies' voices shrieking "Don't touch me, puh-lease/I cannot STAND the way you TEASE". Yeah. Tainted Love. Not Soft Cell's best single (that's Torch, IMNVHO), but certainly the one you had to live under a rock to avoid. The regular reader of this blog (hello, you!) will know that Soft Cell have a special hold on my psyche. So imagine my surprise when, in a fit of nostalgia-based googling, I found this gem.

Mike Thorne was Soft Cell's producer and a major influence on their sound and, do you know, he's not a bad writer either: especially when he's describing the making of Tainted Love. It's a great read - fascinating stuff for anybody interested in the process of making music or for anybody who owned the record. Aficionados of Almond & Ball may want to look at the links at the bottom of the page, including the link to the making of Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing - the first ecstasy-influenced record by a British band: a milestone few talk about, but one that undoubtedly belongs to Soft Cell.

It's quite the fascinating read. In fact, have a poke around the whole site. It's a bank holiday: it's not as if you're doing anything...