Soft Cell - Memorabilia

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  • Опубліковано 14 лис 2018
  • Taken from Soft Cell’s 1983 video release ‘Non Stop Exotic Video Show’, Soft Cell’s breakthrough club hit exists here in its 1982 remix form, with added rapping from the estimable Cindy Ecstasy.
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    Music video by Soft Cell performing Memorabilia. © 1981 Mercury Records Limited
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 248

  • @robcringle5376
    @robcringle5376 4 роки тому +269

    The fact that this song is nearly 40 years old is frying my brain.

    • @thereverendepi_gee565
      @thereverendepi_gee565 3 роки тому +20

      I bought it brand new, as a child.. and I feel so old. :P hope I will still dance to it, when i am 80.. (if I get to live that long) ..

    • @alancombo06
      @alancombo06 3 роки тому +7

      Still timeless

    • @oregonlee
      @oregonlee 3 роки тому +11

      Is there any song more ahead of its time than this?

    • @pognillat2833
      @pognillat2833 3 роки тому +4

      I still shiver when I think about the fact that it was 1921 100 years ago

    • @MsChachacha99
      @MsChachacha99 2 роки тому +1

      42 now 😮

  • @jamescurrier9699
    @jamescurrier9699 5 років тому +250

    This song was SO ahead of itS time!!!

    • @alessandrodalbosco1408
      @alessandrodalbosco1408 5 років тому +6

      Same thing. Fantastic video indeed.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 років тому +13

      Isn't this trance? 1981.

    • @danielfairchapel3133
      @danielfairchapel3133 4 роки тому +9

      This is exactly what I was commenting with a friend. Sounds super Avant garde.
      That sound is hypnotic

    • @nemanja6450
      @nemanja6450 4 роки тому +3

      @manu ochenta the song is ahead of its time not the video

    • @trancisfrancis
      @trancisfrancis 3 роки тому +6

      @@ajs41 Electro with a touch of acid

  • @jasonrubin9114
    @jasonrubin9114 7 місяців тому +8

    The fact that this song can still pack a dance floor anywhere in the world....40 years later!

  • @AmosAmerica
    @AmosAmerica 3 роки тому +54

    Easily, one of the most important songs in pop history. What a carnival ride of raw emotion! This video is brilliant and should be placed in a museum collection at the MoMA if its not already. Thank you Marc, Dave, and Cindy!'

    • @AmosAmerica
      @AmosAmerica 3 роки тому +3

      And, is that Stevo making a cameo in the video? So fun!

    • @petems3283
      @petems3283 2 роки тому +5

      MOMA for MDMA

    • @FarradMuseumofTruth
      @FarradMuseumofTruth Рік тому +1

      ​@@petems3283museums rock 🎉😊❤

  • @boombaby1769
    @boombaby1769 4 роки тому +56

    The "Born slippy" of the 80s.

  • @janicamoore9583
    @janicamoore9583 3 роки тому +38

    I used to blast this song in my car when I was 16. Oh so long ago..this song was way ahead for its time

    • @MadMax-pj8ky
      @MadMax-pj8ky Рік тому +1

      16yo had you a driver licence ? or did you drive without like me ?😅

  • @flabbybum9562
    @flabbybum9562 2 роки тому +11

    It's 2022, and if this song was released tomorrow, it would be seen as pushing at the edges. Soft Cell are somewhat special.

  • @stellaVista
    @stellaVista 5 років тому +95

    The moment when Cindy turns into Marc at the end of the rap is AMAZING! Also are they superimposing lines of coke over the Word Trade Center?

    • @jonforster656
      @jonforster656 2 роки тому +18

      This song is all about the drug ecstacy not coke. They recorded their debut album in New York and were club hoping amongst the many gay clubs of the time when they were introduced to a woman who had the only supply of the new hit drug on the gay club scene. Medical grade MDMA (Mandy in the UK, Molly in the USA), still legal at the time, they got heavily into both the drug and the scene.
      That's her rapping on this track and this is pretty much the first rave record...6 years before the acid house/warehouse rave scene would explode in the UK.

  • @aidavladoiu3579
    @aidavladoiu3579 4 роки тому +37

    woooooo who else can feel the KRAFTWERK in this masterpiece???? !!!!!!

    • @BroForce426
      @BroForce426 3 роки тому +8

      This feels more like a Pet Shop Boys song rather than Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk never had this much energy

    • @henrywallace7996
      @henrywallace7996 2 роки тому +3

      It does remind me of Numbers.

    • @square_kirby7852
      @square_kirby7852 2 роки тому +6

      I can feel the LSD they used to mix this album

    • @bobsagert2276
      @bobsagert2276 Рік тому +3

      Maybe something from trans Europe express as that was the only dancy beat type album they had. No its more like Giorgio moroders music for Donna summers I feel love.

  • @sunshine9640
    @sunshine9640 3 роки тому +14

    This song has a very strange feeling, but I can't live without it

  • @jankronstrand7779
    @jankronstrand7779 Рік тому +10

    bought Non Stop in '82, and all their music has been a part of my life ever since... thank you guys!

  • @user-wg8rh5nw5c
    @user-wg8rh5nw5c 2 місяці тому +4

    I still love soft cell i'm 56 & they're still fabulous*

  • @enriccoll3908
    @enriccoll3908 2 роки тому +27

    I first heard it in early 1983 on a Spanish radio station and I only had time to record an excerpt on a tape I still keep but I never knew the song name until yesterday night, almost 40 years later. Arguably their best song along with Frustration and Youth.

  • @i4nng
    @i4nng 2 роки тому +10

    I'm 27, had never seen this clip / music before and its scary how much I identified with it. The sound and footage.

  • @The.Last.Guitar.Hero.
    @The.Last.Guitar.Hero. 3 роки тому +13

    As a lover of 80s synthpop this is by far their best song

    • @dmerls8571
      @dmerls8571 Рік тому +2

      Yeah but, Bedsitter, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Sex Dwarf, Mug's Game, What... just sayin.

  • @officialreginageorge3507
    @officialreginageorge3507 5 років тому +41

    Such a tune! Can't help but adore Marc, he's adorably gorgeous with a naughtiness to him

  • @carstenkaltner7360
    @carstenkaltner7360 4 роки тому +16

    That was music, That is music

  • @aidavladoiu3579
    @aidavladoiu3579 4 роки тому +57

    THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE. SO INTENSE, COMPARED TO OTHER SONGS OF THEM. SO ENERGETIC SO VIBRANT. i needed this. i was looking for THIS kind of song thanks

    • @MsGumz14
      @MsGumz14 3 роки тому +2

      OH YEAH!!

    • @jamieparis2203
      @jamieparis2203 2 роки тому +3

      That's because of the fact that this song is made on ecstasy 😜

  • @HarryYT22
    @HarryYT22 5 років тому +26

    I freaking love this song! Love Cindy's typical rapping!

  • @MrHumanracin
    @MrHumanracin 4 роки тому +14

    1981 ? Way ahead of its time, I hadn’t heard this version before.

    • @RocStarr913
      @RocStarr913 2 місяці тому

      This version was on their 1982 remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.

  • @381jot
    @381jot 3 роки тому +48

    Surely the earliest example of Techno? This version with the Cindy Ecstasy is by far the best!!

    • @synchronoise71
      @synchronoise71 3 роки тому +11

      One of, donna summer I feel love 76 also

    • @arkham8807
      @arkham8807 3 роки тому +1

      Synthpop!

    • @astrolabe1976
      @astrolabe1976 2 роки тому +4

      The earliest example of Techno is Cybotron by Juan Atkins part of the Detroit 3 who invented Techno..

    • @4l3x5andro
      @4l3x5andro Рік тому +7

      No, Kraftwerk foi pioneiro nisso, mas o soft não estava longe dos alemães, ao mesmo tempo que Depeche mode e New worder iniciavam seus passos na música eletrônica, em 81/82...

    • @Leonardo_da_Chimpci
      @Leonardo_da_Chimpci Рік тому

      @@4l3x5andro techno was created in detroit.

  • @jonandlisa2000
    @jonandlisa2000 5 років тому +15

    Finally this year lots of memorabilia available for us SC fans, spent a fortune this year 😛

  • @afrinahmed961
    @afrinahmed961 6 місяців тому +3

    As a lover of the 80s music listener, this is the best song! ❤

  • @pimpilotti
    @pimpilotti 3 місяці тому +5

    Bought that in 1982, was 15+ years old. Headphone, headphone. It's the reason why I need now hearing aids. Ok, I also blame Heaven 17, ABC and Public Enemy.

  • @keith-leecastle6700
    @keith-leecastle6700 3 роки тому +5

    40+ years old and still amazing. One of my favourite tunes ever. Soft Cell have never ceased to be important to me. The soundtrack of my youth. Love that Stevo’s in this.......

  • @d3athr0ck3r
    @d3athr0ck3r 4 роки тому +18

    One of the best songs of Marc Almonds genius

  • @FarradMuseumofTruth
    @FarradMuseumofTruth Рік тому +2

    This is the perfect song to build your collection with, or build a museum 😉😜

  • @branchesnbones_
    @branchesnbones_ Місяць тому +2

    Found out that nin actually just did a cover of memorabilia; so I decided to check the original out. This one is pretty good too!!

  • @paula200
    @paula200 3 роки тому +9

    Just about my favourite song when I was out clubbing back in the day.

  • @houseofradmusicsheltieloun8206
    @houseofradmusicsheltieloun8206 3 роки тому +5

    Played this on KFJC 89.7fm, Los Altos Hills, Cali when it came out (and Sex Dwarf).
    Their "hit" was taboo, we left that for the commercial stations. Love the remix!

  • @jaywillingham4085
    @jaywillingham4085 4 роки тому +23

    Bought the "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing" cassette when it came out, because it had "Where did our love go", but was completely blown away by "Memorabilia" the first time I heard it, especially Cindys rap. This song cemented Soft Cell in my top 5 bands of all time. Will always cherish their contribution to the art.

  • @jocelynsinead9083
    @jocelynsinead9083 7 місяців тому +3

    This was AWESOME hearing live at darker waves !!

  • @Valy534
    @Valy534 5 років тому +15

    My fabulous discovery of when i was adolescent 🎄🌟💋💋💋🌙🇬🇧💗🌹

  • @kengray1663
    @kengray1663 4 роки тому +46

    No wonder trent covered this

    • @ryobibattery
      @ryobibattery Рік тому +1

      Because Marc and Trent are both really gay

  • @justinhunt1714
    @justinhunt1714 2 роки тому +49

    Had only ever heard the Nine Inch Nails cover of this and it's something I listen to a lot. My first time hearing the original here and I love it. Just odd because I knew the song so damn well from another artist.

    • @Brokeninc
      @Brokeninc 2 роки тому +9

      Same I hadn't even known it was a cover until I just read about it.

    • @colinrussell2017
      @colinrussell2017 Рік тому +4

      I guess its like the inverse of Hurt then?

    • @colinrussell2017
      @colinrussell2017 Рік тому +8

      @@Brokeninc There was a tradition of NIN doing covers on the B sides up until The Fragile
      Sin: Get Down Make Love (Queen)
      Broken EP track 98: Physical (Adam and the Ants), track 99 Suck (Pigface)
      Closer: Memorabilia (Soft Cell)
      Things falling apart: Metal (Gary Numan)
      Happy explorations, Blu!

    • @waz3128
      @waz3128 Рік тому +2

      likewise. I think it was on the Closer single. I definitely prefer the Soft Cell version today

    • @sonicepiphany
      @sonicepiphany 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@colinrussell2017Trent is credited as a composer of Suck. It was a collaboration with Pigface, not a NIN "cover".

  • @HandmadeProps
    @HandmadeProps 2 роки тому +6

    Still sounds so fresh!!
    Love the Cabaret Voltaire esq sounds in the back of the mix!!

  • @StingWolfpack
    @StingWolfpack 2 роки тому +7

    industrial elements, very cool!

  • @leefoster4171
    @leefoster4171 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful Almond / Ball track
    Something magical always happens when they write together . You can’t buy that 👍🏻❤️

  • @thereverendepi_gee565
    @thereverendepi_gee565 3 роки тому +4

    ...the first album I bought, with my own money.. age 8. I had one prior. To this date, after hearing a million dance and electronic songs, this one still does more for me than 99.999999% of the rest.. the others, are somehow equals.

  • @genomizer2763
    @genomizer2763 2 роки тому +2

    I LOVE SOFT CELL, been in love for like 40 years!!

  • @valcirfirminodasilva1975
    @valcirfirminodasilva1975 6 місяців тому +2

    MARC... FANTÁSTICO...
    CINDY... MARAVILHOSA...
    De Jundiaí, SP Brasil...

  • @RoseTheLovelyDragon
    @RoseTheLovelyDragon Рік тому +6

    marcs gotta have his keychaaaaaaaaaaaains and snowstooooooooooooorms

    • @dreadpirate1452
      @dreadpirate1452 Рік тому

      This comment made me laugh pretty hard for some reason. 🤣🤣

    • @ayvenmoon
      @ayvenmoon 6 місяців тому

      justr let the man collect his mm mm mm m mmm mm mm m m mmm memorabiliaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • @jameslawson6245
    @jameslawson6245 Рік тому +2

    A Masterpiece Indeed!

  • @bobbugwithoneeyeskingiskin8974
    @bobbugwithoneeyeskingiskin8974 3 роки тому +4

    Get the 12” version on here! It’s even better!

  • @Peacefully-Happy-86
    @Peacefully-Happy-86 5 років тому +13

    ♥ I grew up in leytonstone on this magnificent artist ♥

  • @topbuzz2292
    @topbuzz2292 3 роки тому +6

    Work of art. 😘

  • @AlisonBryen
    @AlisonBryen 3 роки тому +4

    Keychains and snowstorms 🖤

  • @bobjackson6524
    @bobjackson6524 Рік тому +1

    Rollercoaster clash of pure excess and brilliance.
    Love it

  • @thunder_heads
    @thunder_heads 5 років тому +15

    The cat is really cute

  • @tmarastroud-waite1210
    @tmarastroud-waite1210 2 роки тому +2

    Marc wasn't afraid this is what it is lobe it we've found ourselves through the account of music and art respectively

  • @arkham8807
    @arkham8807 3 роки тому +3

    Classic Synthpop!

  • @Ivy-kb9xe
    @Ivy-kb9xe 3 роки тому +4

    I remember my friend bringing home non stop erotic cabaret. I think that is what it was called from England. It was fantastic.

  • @josephletts1093
    @josephletts1093 3 роки тому +3

    I used to love playing this just after dropping albeit the in 90s

  • @annmartin70
    @annmartin70 2 роки тому +2

    Omg, I forgot how totally amazing this is

  • @VanezArt
    @VanezArt 5 місяців тому +1

    basically an unadulterated techno banger, still slaps

  • @danielmosqueda2462
    @danielmosqueda2462 2 роки тому +1

    DJ Harvey playing this in LA to all the circuit queens . Nov 2021! Ballistic!

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 Рік тому +2

    too ahead of its time

  • @graemekinslow9789
    @graemekinslow9789 29 днів тому

    Love the cat 😊

  • @MrFabthefabulous
    @MrFabthefabulous 3 роки тому +5

    just awesome !! Marc is such a great artist. Love you !

  • @VanezArt
    @VanezArt 3 роки тому +3

    an obscure banger

  • @pacho1969able
    @pacho1969able Рік тому +1

    I have never had you, had you, had you ❤️

  • @RosaliaC28
    @RosaliaC28 2 роки тому +1

    I love it Tainted love of this music group I didn't know this song there it's really cool it was the future of house music. 🎶 🎧 💯 🇨🇵

  • @jackdeman
    @jackdeman 5 років тому +3

    Awesome... Love It...

  • @carstenkaltner7360
    @carstenkaltner7360 3 роки тому +2

    Timeless

  • @saveyourselfnow
    @saveyourselfnow 25 днів тому

    Ok help me out here. I owned this album back in 83, 82. It was on cassette. But my cassette had this song starting the album. Not Frustration. And my cassette said nothing about a video show. Or a special dance mix. But it was the best thing going back in the day. I loved that cassette. I have no clue whatever happened to it. I believe someone snagged it. Probably my ex, of the 80's. Still, have - the art of falling apart, and the next album after that. No one took those.
    But I've been trying to find one like I had, anywhere.
    But like here. When I pulled this up, it said it was the full album and yet it's one song. Granted it was the right version of the song, which this version is easily the best. Of the many versions, they seem to have here
    But maybe I'm wrong about the title on the cassette. All I know is I'd really like to find this again
    Thanks for listening. Today is July 12th, 2024 Friday.

  • @thejohns-xo8um
    @thejohns-xo8um 5 років тому +5

    Excellent

  • @TheUtuber999
    @TheUtuber999 Рік тому

    "Tow-how-howns that I pass through..." I always get a chuckle out of how Marc turns a single-syllable word into three here. 😁

  • @VanezArt
    @VanezArt 9 місяців тому

    12” extended version is a must listen

  • @antonyward8971
    @antonyward8971 5 років тому +4

    Reminder reminder.......

  • @josemartin4182
    @josemartin4182 Рік тому

    Perfect Soft Cell💯 eternal!!!!

  • @joselopezgarcia4095
    @joselopezgarcia4095 2 роки тому

    awsome!!

  • @ericrizojkd
    @ericrizojkd Місяць тому

    I'm not a dancer, but man, this song could make me move

  • @RevolverSnake007
    @RevolverSnake007 4 роки тому +14

    I wonder what happened to her

  • @robbiethepict2783
    @robbiethepict2783 11 місяців тому

    Here we go again...with passion.

  • @stevepettit2064
    @stevepettit2064 5 років тому +13

    this is like totally brilliant !! i have never understood why it wasn't released as a single in this version or the fact it didn't make it onto their first album along with a few other tracks like fun city total overload of songs and this cindy's rapping amazing ahead of its time for sure.

    • @boneappletea3858
      @boneappletea3858 3 роки тому +2

      It's more like a spoken word poem but I feel ya.

    • @stevepettit2064
      @stevepettit2064 3 роки тому +1

      @@boneappletea3858 thanks for the reply yeah you are right more spoken than hip hop or rap still cool all the same.

    • @boneappletea3858
      @boneappletea3858 3 роки тому +1

      @@stevepettit2064 cool af

    • @RocStarr913
      @RocStarr913 2 роки тому +2

      Probably because it wasn’t enough of a “pop” single.

    • @stevepettit2064
      @stevepettit2064 2 роки тому

      @@RocStarr913 Maybe but some of their hits were not poppy compared to other artists and marc not your usual pin up pop star so i think this song would have made a great single.

  • @MagiaDaArte
    @MagiaDaArte Рік тому +2

    Que vídeo excelente !
    Um som totalmente hipnótico !
    Adorei. ,,, deixo aqui o meu apoio. 👍Like .🔔👈
    Felicidades para você , meu querido amigo 🌻

  • @Tellingthetruthaboutpolice
    @Tellingthetruthaboutpolice 3 роки тому +1

    HOT FIRE RIGHT HERE.
    PER PER PERRRRRRR
    OHHHHH YEAHHHHHHH EEEHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🔥

  • @lavastiro
    @lavastiro 4 роки тому +2

    adoroooooo...

  • @anthonymackey222
    @anthonymackey222 Рік тому +1

    It's crazy or will be crazy that the future (21st century) is and will be playing sync songs made in the 1980's

  • @Aramanth
    @Aramanth 5 років тому +5

    I collect 🔮🏮🧭👓💍🪀
    Dance music today: Take Note!

  • @andreaswehnert545
    @andreaswehnert545 5 років тому +1

    Die beste Version von dieser Nummer..toppt alles

  • @swskating3865
    @swskating3865 2 місяці тому

    I really felt I could relate to this tune, that was until I found out it is sung from the perspective of a serial killer !. Don't get me wrong, this is well up there for iconic 80's music . I love it

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 Рік тому

    classic 😎👍

  • @pedroalmandoz5989
    @pedroalmandoz5989 Рік тому

    Fantásticos soft cell

  • @ajs41
    @ajs41 5 років тому +10

    The first techno song ever, from 1981.

    • @alessandrodalbosco1408
      @alessandrodalbosco1408 5 років тому +7

      Proto Acid house

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 років тому +7

      @@alessandrodalbosco1408 It's interesting how this song is so much ignored by pop music historians.

    • @alessandrodalbosco1408
      @alessandrodalbosco1408 5 років тому +1

      @@ajs41 typically. Then becomes fashion. Soft cell was dark and some videos reminds me Nick Zedd's films. OK in 1981 there was fantastic albums too. I think this was very close to the Idiot of Iggy Pop. Decadence and romantic at the same time without electric guitars. And the saxophone trumpet in torch so n. y.

    • @alessandrodalbosco1408
      @alessandrodalbosco1408 5 років тому

      Fuck off historians

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 років тому

      @@alessandrodalbosco1408 Sorry? I think history is important.

  • @goclbert
    @goclbert 3 роки тому +1

    Wow this is incredible! I can't believe I hadn't heard this version before

    • @RocStarr913
      @RocStarr913 2 роки тому +1

      That’s because it was set to the remix from the Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing album. It was filmed as part of the Non-Stop Exotic Video Show video album that was released on home video formats. They likely felt using the remix would help promote the remix album as well as the original album.

    • @katashley1031
      @katashley1031 3 місяці тому

      It wason the actual album. I bought it in 1982 and still have it.

  • @raymondlibert9861
    @raymondlibert9861 3 роки тому +1

    Ma jeunesse

  • @thunder_heads
    @thunder_heads 5 років тому +8

    He is really cute

  • @user-di3gq6nd3x
    @user-di3gq6nd3x Рік тому +1

    BEAUTIFUL BABY

  • @KpopStan2009
    @KpopStan2009 5 років тому +13

    Please upload the original Tainted love Music Video from the 80s. I'd love to see it again 💖

    • @trendydelquendy
      @trendydelquendy 5 років тому +1

      Oh yes! Caligula, on the swing. I've got the VHS cassette, must do this

  • @josefhammar2793
    @josefhammar2793 3 роки тому +2

    Holy SHIT that was good

  • @DrAnGeber
    @DrAnGeber 4 роки тому +4

    A E S T H E T I C

  • @Luna_AlmondSF
    @Luna_AlmondSF 3 роки тому +1

    I remember listening to this weird type of music back then

  • @sandradamato8008
    @sandradamato8008 7 місяців тому

    Got it can I send it to a few friends?
    Dial, you still have it !❤

  • @maximo4461
    @maximo4461 5 років тому +3

    ❤️🥰

  • @jeffdavidfleming
    @jeffdavidfleming 5 років тому +7

    Is any of that Marc Almond's 8mm footage?

  • @amethystcrome6115
    @amethystcrome6115 3 роки тому

    This song sounds The best on Deezer I swear!

  • @enricestevemir7965
    @enricestevemir7965 6 місяців тому

    It sounds like Speak and Spell, the first Depeche Mode album... the Daniel Miller production is very clear in Memoriabilia

  • @cineparaiso9136
    @cineparaiso9136 5 років тому +2

    Ziiiiiii 🙌🙌

  • @boneappletea3858
    @boneappletea3858 3 роки тому

    More, more more! Everything u wanted and...more. blt.