Soft Cell discography

Soft Cell discography
Studio albums5
EPs3
Live albums5
Compilation albums15
Singles22
Video albums3
Remix albums1

This is the discography of Soft Cell, a British synth-pop duo consisting of Marc Almond and Dave Ball who rose to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo broke up in 1984 after releasing four albums, but reunited in the early 2000s for a series of live dates and released an album of new material in 2002. The group reunited again in 2018 for a final farewell concert,[1] accompanied by a host of musical and video releases, including a career-spanning box set[2] and a single.[3]

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[4]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[6]
FIN
[7]
GER
[8]
NED
[9]
NZ
[10]
SWE
[11]
US
[12]
US
R&B/HH

[12]
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret 5 34 2 19 23 7 25 22 55
The Art of Falling Apart
  • Released: 14 January 1983
  • Label: Some Bizzare (#BIZ3)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
5 82 43 84
This Last Night in Sodom
  • Released: 16 March 1984
  • Label: Some Bizzare (#BIZ6)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
12
Cruelty Without Beauty
  • Released: 8 October 2002
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl (#COOK245)
  • Formats: CS, CD
116
Happiness Not Included
  • Released: 6 May 2022
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
7 12
Happiness Now Completed
  • Released: 28 July 2024
  • Label: BMG
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Remix albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[4]
US
[12]
Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • Released: June 1982
  • Label: Some Bizzare (#BIZ6)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
6 57

Live albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Additional Information
UK
[4]
UK
Indie

[15]
UK
Vinyl

[16]
SCO
[17]
Live
  • Released: 7 October 2003
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl (#COOKCD267)
  • Formats: CD
  • 2003 European tour
  • Includes recordings from Leeds, London and Brussels
  • 26-track, double CD album
Soft Cell at the BBC
  • Released: 14 October 2003
  • Label: Strange Fruit (#SFRSCD123)
  • Formats: CD
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye: Live
  • Released: 27 June 2005
  • Label: Demon Music Group (#MCCD573)
  • Formats: CD
  • Re-issue of Live album from 2003
  • With new title and artwork
  • 26-track, double CD album
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye – 2018
  • Released: 1 August 2019
  • Label: Live Here Now (#LHN052)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
95 11 18 38
  • Live at the O2, 30 September 2018
  • 4×LP and 2×CD box sets
  • Available with DVD and Blu-ray discs
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret & Other Stories
  • Released: 7 October 2022
  • Label: Live Here Now
  • Formats: LP, CD, download, DVD, Blu-ray
  • Live in London, November 2021
  • 2×CD set, plus various vinyl, DVD & Blu-ray packages
  • Available with DVD and Blu-ray discs

Compilation albums

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Charting compilations

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[4]
BEL
[18]
EUR
[19]
GER
[20]
SCO
[21]
The Singles
  • Released: 13 December 1986
  • Label: Some Bizzare (#BIZ3)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
58 54
Memorabilia – The Singles
  • Released: 20 May 1991
  • Label: Mercury (#8485121)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
8 40
The Very Best of Soft Cell
  • Released: 1 April 2002
  • Label: UMTV (#5868342)
  • Formats: CD
37 63
Hits & Pieces: The Best of Marc Almond and Soft Cell
  • Released: 10 March 2017
  • Label: Universal (#5737778)
  • Formats: LP, CD
7 134 5
Keychains & Snowstorms – The Soft Cell Story
  • Released: 7 September 2018
  • Label: Universal (#6741996)
  • Formats: CD
56 80 36
Keychains & Snowstorms – The Singles
  • Released: 28 September 2018
  • Label: Universal (#6779852)
  • Formats: CD
34 30
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Complete list

Extended plays

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Title Details
Mutant Moments
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Big Frock
Club Mixes 2018
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: Big Frock
Magick Mutants
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Big Frock

Singles

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[4]
AUS
[5]
BEL
[18]
CAN
[22]
FIN
[7]
GER
[23]
IRE
[24]
NED
[9]
SWE
[11]
US
[12]
1981 "A Man Can Get Lost" Non-album singles
"Memorabilia"
"Tainted Love"/
"Where Did Our Love Go"
1 1 1 1 1 4 7 2 8 Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
"Bedsitter" 4 33 29 10
1982 "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" 3 36 29 12 30
"Torch" 2 68 6 9 75 7 12 Non-album single
"What" 3 32 64 6 [A] Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
"Where the Heart Is" 21 23 14 The Art of Falling Apart
"Loving You, Hating Me" (North America Only Release)
1983 "Numbers"/"Barriers" 25 16
"Heat" (North America Only Release)
"Soul Inside" 16 13 This Last Night in Sodom
1984 "Down in the Subway" 24 20
1985 "Tainted Love" (re-issue) 43 Non-album single
1991 "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91"
(featuring Marc Almond)
38 Memorabilia – The Singles
"Tainted Love '91"
(featuring Marc Almond)
5 93 22 4
1999 "Tainted Love"
(Soft Cell vs Club 69)
Non-album single
2002 "Monoculture" 52 Cruelty Without Beauty
2003 "The Night" 39
2018 "Northern Lights"/
"Guilty (Cos I Say You Are)"
Keychains & Snowstorms: The Singles
2021 "Bruises on All My Illusions" Happiness Not Included
2022 "Purple Zone"
(with Pet Shop Boys)
[B]
"Nostalgia Machine"
"Last Chance (Christmas Mix) / Light Sleepers"
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

  • 1981 – "Sex Dwarf/Entertain Me/Seedy Films"[29] (US Dance #65)
  • 1982 – "What/Insecure...Me?"[30]
  • 1984 – Songs from The Last Night in Sodom[31]

Video albums

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Year Title Format Additional information
1982 Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Some Bizzare Films
VHS Reissued on DVD in 2004, and included on the Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset DVD disc
1991 Memorabilia – The Video Singles
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Polygram
VHS Soft Cell with Marc Almond – video compilation released alongside the 1991 compilation album of the same name
2002 Live in Milan
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Eagle Vision USA
DVD

Music videos

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[32]

Year Title Director Additional Information
1981 Tainted Love Tim Pope Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Bedsitter Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Memorabilia – The Video Singles and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
1982 Torch Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Memorabilia – The Video Singles and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
What!
Entertain Me Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Frustration
Seedy Films
Secret Life
Youth
Memorabilia Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Memorabilia – The Video Singles and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Sex Dwarf (Intro) Released on Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Sex Dwarf Original, banned version that has yet to be officially released
1983 Where The Heart Is Released on Memorabilia – The Video Singles and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Numbers
Soul Inside
1984 Down in the Subway Released on Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
1991 Say Hello, Wave Goodbye '91 Peter Christopherson Released on Memorabilia – The Video Singles and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
Tainted Love '91
2002 Monoculture Tim Pope Included as a multimedia track on the Monoculture single and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
2018 Northern Lights Included as a multimedia track on the Northern Lights single and Keychains & Snowstorms Boxset
2022 Purple Zone Yassa Khan Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys Single
Light Sleepers Charlie Ann Max

Rarities and miscellaneous

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Year Title Label Additional information
1981 Some Bizzare Album Some Bizzare Compilation featuring exclusive track "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face."
1982 Metro MRX Flexi 1982 green flexi-disc free with Flexi-Pop magazine.
1983 Ghostrider – Live '83 Cellmates Flexi-disc of a live cover of the song Ghost Rider by Suicide. Available in black, blue, or green and issued by the Soft Cell fan club.
1991 Bedsitter '91 / Torch Withdrawn UK promotional 7" & 12" single, originally intended to be the 3rd single release from the 1991 compilation 'Memorabilia'. Credited to Soft Cell / Marc Almond.
2001 I'd Rather Shout at a Returning Echo than Kid That Someone's Listening Some Bizzare Compilation that includes the track "God-Shaped Hole."
2016 Sex Dwarf UMC 12" Vinyl UK Record Store Day 2016. Contains the 3 existing (At the time) remixes of the song.[33]
2018 Say Hello Wave Goodbye / Youth UMC/Mercury 12" Vinyl UK Record Store Day 2018 First Release limited to 1,500 copies, containing new mixes by Dave Ball: Say Hello Wave Goodbye (Dave Ball Lateral Mix) & Youth (Dave Ball Wasted on the Young Mix)[34]
2018 Night and the City (And You) & One Last Time Exclusive Tracks contained on limited edition 'Keychains & Snowstorms' USB Stick.
2020 Cruelty Without Beauty 2020 Extended Mixes Limited to 500 copies in a PVC sleeve with sticker.[35]

Notes

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  1. ^ "What" did not enter the US Billboard Hot 100 but did peak at number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 extension chart.[27]
  2. ^ "Purple Zone" did not enter the UK singles chart, but peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.[28]

References

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  1. ^ "Soft Cell Announce One-Off 40th Anniversary Concert".
  2. ^ "Announcing 'Keychains & Snowstorms – the Soft Cell Story' Boxset".
  3. ^ "Soft Cell to release brand new single Northern Lights plus new Best of compilation in September".
  4. ^ a b c d e UK chart peaks:
  5. ^ a b Peaks in Australia:
    • All except noted: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 280. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
    • "Tainted Love '91": Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 259.
  6. ^ Canadian albums chart peaks:
  7. ^ a b Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  8. ^ "Discographie von Soft Cell". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Dutch chart peaks". Dutch Charts. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  10. ^ "New Zealand chart peaks". charts.nz. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  11. ^ a b "Swedish chart peaks". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  12. ^ a b c d "US chart peaks". Billboard. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i "British certifications – Soft Cell". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 14 July 2024. Type Soft Cell in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  14. ^ a b "Music Canada > Gold & Platinum > Soft Cell". Music Canada. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  15. ^ UK live albums chart peaks:
  16. ^ UK vinyl albums chart peaks:
  17. ^ Scottish live albums chart peaks:
  18. ^ a b "Belgian (Flanders) chart peaks". ultratop.be. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  19. ^ European compilation album chart peaks:
  20. ^ German compilation albums chart peaks:
  21. ^ Scottish studio albums chart peaks:
  22. ^ Canadian singles chart peaks:
  23. ^ German singles chart peaks:
  24. ^ Irish singles chart peaks:
    • Note: User needs to click on the "Search Charts" tab. Then enter Soft Cell into the "Search Artists" field and press "Search". "Irish singles chart peaks up to 1999". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  25. ^ "Platinum and Gold Singles 1982". Kent Music Report. 28 February 1983. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Imgur.
  26. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Soft Cell)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  27. ^ "US Hot 100 Bubbling Under". Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  28. ^ "Official Singles Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  29. ^ "Sex Dwarf/Entertain Me/Seedy Films promotional single". Discogs. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  30. ^ "What/Insecure...Me? promotional single". Discogs. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  31. ^ "Songs from The Last Night in Sodom promotional single". Discogs. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  32. ^ "Soft Cell". MVDbase. ASG. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  33. ^ "Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf". Discogs.
  34. ^ "Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye / Youth". Discogs.
  35. ^ "Soft Cell – Cruelty Without Beauty 2020 Extended Mixes". Discogs.