Their best known songs to date are " Brain Collapses ", " Unveiling the Secret ", " Eternal ", " Misery ", " Tears ", " Sanctuary ", " Gods and Monsters ", " 15 Minutes ", and a remake of the famous Q Lazzarus song " Goodbye Horses " made popular by the movie The Silence of the Lambs ; as well as their cover version of Soft Cell's " Sex Dwarf ".

Feeling that there was no real powerful dance numbers on " Intimacy ", Darrin decided to cover Soft Cell's legendary classic " Sex Dwarf ".

Soft Cell's track " Memorabilia " earned recognition for the band as pioneers of techno style.

Released in 1981, Soft Cell's " Tainted Love " was a No. 1 hit in 17 countries, including the United Kingdom, as well as a No. 8 single in the United States during 1982, and went on to set a Guinness World Record at the time for the longest consecutive stay ( 43 weeks ) on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Soft Cell's third album release, appropriately titled The Art of Falling Apart, was a Top 5 hit in the UK but the singles were only modest successes.

Due to its enduring popularity, Soft Cell's version of " Tainted Love " along with other songs from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret have been covered and sampled a number of times, including:

As Soft Cell's sound developed more into a darker mix of pop and electronic dance music, With Some Bizzare Label Marc and the Mambas continued the dark themes-but built around more complex rhythms.

Since despite being quoted differently at the time, he never gave up his pop sensibilities, which returned in Soft Cell's last effort ( for 17 years ) on This Last Night In Sodom ... ( 1984 ).

Soft Cell's version was recorded in a day and a half with Almond's first vocal take being used on the record.

The band's record label chose to release " Tainted Love " on July 7, 1981 as Soft Cell's second single ( their first was " Memorabilia ", which did not chart ).

The label implied that this single would be Soft Cell's final release if the single did not sell.

A video was recorded specially for Soft Cell's video album Non Stop Exotic Video and features a cricketer meeting band members Marc Almond and David Ball in togas on Mount Olympus.

Soft Cell's version of " Tainted Love " ranked # 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders and # 5 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.

Then, in 1982, Soft Cell's Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing, which contained the track " A Man Could Get Lost ," notable as one of the precursors to house music, was released.

This new quartet of Babbington, Jenkins, Marshall and Ratledge recorded the next ( and last ) three official Soft Machine studio releases.

His next group, Dennis And The Experts, became the neo-psychedelia band The Soft Boys in Cambridge in 1976, recording their first EP, " Give It to the Soft Boys ", in his living room in 1977.

" Slightly All the Time " and " Out-Bloody-Rageous " are the most straightforward tracks in Soft Machine's new jazz sound, and set the tone for this and their next two albums.

( Marc Almond from Soft Cell would eventually go on to guest on Coil's next two albums, Horse Rotorvator and Love's Secret Domain.

June saw several releases by the band, the first being The Soft Bulletin: Live la Fantastique de Institution 2011, a live-in-studio recording of the band's 1999 album " The Soft Bulletin " which was on a flashdrive embedded in a marijuana-flavored brain inside a strawberry flavored gummy skull.

According to Marc Almond's book Tainted Life, Soft Cell had exited the " Tainted Love " recording sessions with only modest expectations that the track might break into the UK Top 50.

Soft Cell had considered recording " The Night " in place of " Tainted Love " during 1981 as their frantic attempt to score a chart success.

In January 1969, in order to fulfil contractual obligations, Soft Machine reformed with former road manager and composer Hugh Hopper on bass added to Wyatt and Ratledge, and set about recording their second album, Volume Two, which launched a transition towards a purely instrumental sound resembling what would be later called jazz fusion.

Third was also unusual for remaining in print for more than ten years in the United States, and is the best-selling Soft Machine recording.

Since 1988, a wealth of live recordings of Soft Machine have been issued on CD, with recording quality ranging from poor to excellent.

In 1969 he was recruited to be the group's bassist for their second album, Volume Two and, with Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt, he took part in a recording session for a solo album of Syd Barrett's ( formerly of Pink Floyd, with whom the early Soft Machine had regularly gigged ).

After a brief excursion into archaeology at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village and gaining a degree from Cambridge Rew formed the Waves with Alex Cooper in 1975, before joining the Soft Boys in 1978, recording the Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight albums.

While maintaining a typically eclectic mix of styles, Soft Power was in some ways a stylistic return for Gonzales — his most purely pop recording since Thriller, though with a sound inspired more by the 1970s hits of such artists as the Bee Gees and Billy Joel.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

The game shares a Huang-1 chip with Somari, AV Mei Shao Nv Zhan Shi ( also known as AV Bishoujo Girl Fighting ), Samurai Spirits ( by Rex Soft ) and Garou Densetsu Special ( Family Computer port of Fatal Fury 2 );

Soft euroscepticism is support for the existence of, and membership of, a form of European Union, but with opposition to specific EU policies, and opposition to a federal Europe.

A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.

Soft lead bullets are generally used in handguns with velocities of 1000 ft / s ( 300 m / s ) or lower, while harder cast bullets may be used, with careful powder selection, in rifles with velocities of 2000 ft / s ( 600 m / s ) or slightly more.

Soft matza is made only by hand, and generally with shmurah flour, as described below, like traditional " Shmurah Matza ".

" Soft PLCs " running on desktop-type computers can interface with industrial I / O hardware while executing programs within a version of commercial operating systems adapted for process control needs.

Soft real-time systems are typically used where there is some issue of concurrent access and the need to keep a number of connected systems up to date with changing situations ; for example software that maintains and updates the flight plans for commercial airliners.

Soft tissue imaging of many other parts of the body is conducted with ultrasound.

Soft 404s can occur as a result of configuration errors when using certain HTTP server software, for example with the Apache software, when an Error Document 404 ( specified in a. htaccess file ) is specified as an absolute path ( e. g. < nowiki > http :// example. com / error. html </ nowiki >) rather than a relative path (/ error. html ).

A very abridged spoken word reading of " There Will Come Soft Rains " and " Usher II " was made in 1975 with Leonard Nimoy as narrator.

p-Organogels of Self-Assembled p-Phenylenevinylenes: Soft Materials with Distinct Size, Shape, and Functions.

He began an initiative called Operation Soft Drill — a name which reporter Declan McCullagh wrote was created by Bell — with the stated intention of intimidating police and corporate polluters into respecting human rights.

were, much like New York's Suicide, forerunners of later 1980s techno-pop duos, such as the Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell, in that the singer ( in this case Gabi ) appears relatively extroverted while the one who plays with the electronics ( Robert ) appears quiet and reserved.

* Facts Soft and Hard ( 1964 ), an account of her travels with Daryl in the USA while he was on a Fulbright Award

Though their experimental endeavors received some press coverage, their real breakthrough came with the 1999 release, The Soft Bulletin.

This show was a special two-night, one morning event in which they played the entirety of The Soft Bulletin one night and a new revamped version of Pink Floyd's 1973 album " The Dark Side of the Moon " and collaborated with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros for a performance of " Do You Realize ??

In 1991, Alan Cox wrote AberMUD IV ( unrelated to AberMUD 4 ) and then AberMUD V, which was also used, with graphical extensions, in the Elvira game by Horror Soft, a trading name of Adventure Soft.

* NASA ADS, 1999: Discovery of a Magnetar Associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900 + 14

* The Flaming Lips recorded their albums The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and At War with the Mystics in Cassadaga's Tarbox Studios.

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.