Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (studio album)
by Soft Cell
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is ranked as the best album by Soft Cell.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 11/12/2025 23:21 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2025 04:57 |  AAL2014 | 3,496 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2025 10:52 | fabm0 | 6,505 | 59/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2025 14:49 |  ExTeaSea | 5,071 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/24/2025 13:49 | Fevernova | 3,136 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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highly stylized. ridiculous lyrics at times. tainted love, huge. new wave
drstuey 03/30/2021 02:29 | #267948
So many great songs - almost every song is a classic, with thematic lyrics peeking into the perverted underbelly of England.
teague 02/09/2021 20:59 | #266091
Nothing comes close to Tainted Love, but Youth and Bedsitter are great as well. The rest of the album is fairly dark too, when it comes to synthpop at least.
Favorite Tracks:Bedsitter, Say Hello Wave Goodbye
ExTeaSea 03/21/2019 12:14 | #233833
An ex gf of mine had this so I listened to it and was like, wait they recorded more than just Tainted Love? And the album is just as good or better than that song? Yes it is. It's a shame they didn't record much besides this because this is one of the best new wave albums out there.
Currently on an 80s synth binge and found my way to soft cell. I've only heard tainted love from this group but I was pleasantly surprised how much of the album I found myself liking. Bedsitter has to be my favorite on the album.
It's all pretty good, "Tainted Love" being the obvious standout, but I can't help feel a little underwhelmed when you place "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" in direct comparison with other late 70s/early 80s classic synthpop records. No matter, it's great for what it is and "Sex Dwarf" is a riot.
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A sleazy electro pop album. The record cover says it all with Marc Almond suspiciously half hiding something obviously very naughty. As for the music, tainted love, is one of the great singles of the eighties, and, bedsitter, a good follow up. The closing track, say hello, wave goodbye, is beautiful, a song that David Gray would make even more beautiful on his, white ladder, album. NSEC, overall, is a bit inconsistent, a bit of filler here and there, but so what? Tainted love, is worth the price alone.
timtooky 03/27/2014 17:12 | #107792
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