Sunday 8 July 2018

12 x 12 - Bedsitter by Soft Cell

99p from Cash Converters, Noice
Those who saw that it was a bedsit you were correct. in that it was a photo of one. Did it look like Marc Almond's that he wrote this song about probably in some capacity but I can't exactly get him on the blower and ask him. Bedsitter (Reached number #4) surpassed Tainted Love (their no #1 single) in the charts but not in the songwriting. Admittedly Marc didn't write Tainted love, but his take on the nightlife in this track is much more impressive. Dave Ball does an outstanding job on the instrumental too.

Always liked the 7inch version, the 12 inch does the drop out a few instruments and I'll spit some bars and bring it back into the chorus and it rather works well as it's not a rehash of any previous parts of the track, these are fresh lyrics. Facility Girls isn't much of a track, I suppose that's what the B-side was for but it goes on  long and doesn't really go anywhere.

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