This is really a good cd but I'm disappointed that tainted love and where did our love go are not mixed together as played on the radio. It may seam like a small complaint to some, but that was my main reason for buying this cd.

Great to hear all these tracks again now that they've been fully remastered. The sound is much improved but, I only wish they had included the tracks from their very first single "Mutant Moments".

I'm not a big fan of remixes of old records.
But, an exception must be made for the (Electronic Drum & Bass-styled) 2XS remix of "Tainted Love". Which somehow manages to update but, not spoil the original magic. Whereas Marilyn Manson's take on the song is slow. This version is faster than the original! I read in a Dave Ball interview that they personally asked them to remix this and loved the results. Always nice to know whether the artist approves i think. Buy without doubt.

The early 1980s saw the emergence of the synth duo in the form of Yazoo, OMD, Eurythmics and Soft Cell amongst others, following in the footsteps of the 1970s synth pioneers like Kraftwerk, Suicide, Gary Numan and Daniel Miller's The Normal. Yazoo had soulful vocals, OMD made spacey, almost classical music, Eurythmics changed their approach with every album and Soft Cell had a certain air of dramatic decadence. (It's not hard to picture Marc Almond as a latterday Joel Grey in a 1980s synth cabaret). This superb collection of melodic songs includes two versions of their stunning hits Tainted Love and Say Hello Wave Goodbye. My other favourites are the catchy What?, Memorabilia and their lovely interpretation of Where Did Our Love Go? Marc Almond's voice doesn't have the widest range but the interplay between the vocals and the synths are always innovative. This hits collection is consistently enjoyable while some of their individual albums had lots of filler material, so this is truly the best and a fantastic listening experience.

At least a decent CD compilation for Soft Cell. The first to come was in the mid-eighties and was only eleven tracks that hasn't anything special apart from having the single version of 'TORCH'.

The second compilation 'Memorabilia' presented very decent updated versions of the same song with some other tracks of Marc Almond's solo career. A nice album but almost no original version included here.

This CD is released at the same time as the new 2002 Soft Cell Tour and a few months before the new expected album due later in September. It comes with two new tracks with the same charm as 'Tainted Love' or 'Bedsitter' (I particularly enjoy 'Divided Soul') and two forgettable remixes that doesn't dismiss the quality of this CD.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I heard two songs on a local station here in Sydney 'Tainted Love' and 'Where Did Our Love Go' that really sounded good. So I got this CD never hearing Soft Cell before these two songs and didn't know what to expect. This is a Brittish pop group from the 80's and early 90's now retired. Not entirely a bad CD but many of the songs didn't appeal to me. The last 6 songs were the best of the entire CD including the two remixes using modern DJ's. Two other songs which were interesting to listen too were 'Loving You Hating Me' and 'Soul Inside'. If all the songs on this CD sounded like these above, the album would have really been 'A very best of' compilation.