http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:58:45 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/16/192924.php#comment-13324 Fair enough likewise. I actually knew this song from my dad's records and was similarly astonished at the time when a pop band came out with a version. I actually put the Dionne Warwick version on mixtapes that I made for unsuspecting friends in order to mess with their minds a bit. I suppose if I'd had a version of Gloria Jones' original "Tainted Love" I would have done that as well (good version, by the way, if you ever have the chance to hear it). 13324@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:58:45 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/16/192924.php#comment-13297 Fair enough dude! 13297@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:36:57 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/16/192924.php#comment-13288 I didn't mean to suggest that I doubted Bacharach's authorship, just that I hadn't realized he wrote the song. I'd only ever heard the Naked Eyes version, which is so quintessentially 80's that it was strange to find out it was written by someone who has always seemed more of an Austin Powers sort of aesthetic. I would've put Soft Cell on the tape had I owned a CD with "Tainted Love" on it at the time. Duran Duran is banned, as I'm still holding a grudge from the eighth grade when all the girls were swooning over Simon Le Bon... 13288@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:00:05 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/16/192924.php#comment-13196 Very nice - you only strayed from your '80s new wave hit singles theme by including the Rainmakers and the non-'80s Barenaked Ladies. As a programmer, I am a stickler for themes. You could have substituted with a Pretenders hit, or "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," or Duran Duran, or "Too Shy," or Stray Cats, or Soft Cell, or Billy Idol, or ..... 13196@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:33:12 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/16/192924.php#comment-13192 "Always Something There to Remind Me" is attributed to Burt Bacharach because he wrote it. The original was by Dionne Warwick. 13192@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:56:47 EDT