Tracklist
| A1 | Frustration | |
| A2 | Tainted Love | |
| A3 | Seedy Films | |
| A4 | Youth | |
| A5 | Sex Dwarf | |
| B1 | Entertain Me | |
| B2 | Chips On My Shoulder | |
| B3 | Bedsitter | |
| B4 | Secret Life | |
| B5 | Say Hello, Wave Goodbye |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram Ltd.
- Copyright © – Phonogram Ltd.
- Published By – Metropolis (7)
- Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
- Published By – Intersong Music
- Recorded At – Camden Cell Studios
- Recorded At – Advision Studios
- Pressed By – PRS Ltd.
- Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Credits
- Artwork [Padded Cell] – Huw Feather
- Backing Vocals – Vicious Pink Phenomena
- Design – Andrew Prewett
- Engineer – Don Wershba (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
- Engineer [Assistant] – Nicky Kalliongis
- Instruments [Electronic And Acoustic] – David Ball*
- Make-Up – Vivien P
- Mastered By – Jack Skinner
- Mixed By – Harvey Goldberg
- Photography By – Ashworth*
- Producer – Mike Thorne
- Vocals – Marc Almond
- Written-By – D. Ball* (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
- Written-By, Lyrics By – M. Almond* (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
Notes
Recorded in Camden Cell Studios, London, except
"Tainted Love" recorded at Advision Studios, London.
Printed inner sleeve with Marc Almond's lyrics, so omitting 'Tainted Love'.
[Publishers]:
Tracks A1, A3 to B5 Metropolis/Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Track A2 Intersong Music.
[Labels]
© 1981 Phonogram Ltd. ℗ 1981 Phonogram Ltd.
Runouts are stamped, with letter and number combinations (A, B, 1, 2, 0, 6, etc.) and "Side B" after STERLING etched. Character A after STERLING in variants 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 is upside down, as is 1 in variant 7. Character B after STERLING in variant 5 is reversed. Variant 2 is fully stamped.
"Tainted Love" recorded at Advision Studios, London.
Printed inner sleeve with Marc Almond's lyrics, so omitting 'Tainted Love'.
[Publishers]:
Tracks A1, A3 to B5 Metropolis/Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Track A2 Intersong Music.
[Labels]
© 1981 Phonogram Ltd. ℗ 1981 Phonogram Ltd.
Runouts are stamped, with letter and number combinations (A, B, 1, 2, 0, 6, etc.) and "Side B" after STERLING etched. Character A after STERLING in variants 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 is upside down, as is 1 in variant 7. Character B after STERLING in variant 5 is reversed. Variant 2 is fully stamped.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 1): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING A 2
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 1): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING 1 6 Side B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 2): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 2): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 3): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING A 2 1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 3): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 1 B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 5): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST L5 STERLING A 2
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 5): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING L2 B 3
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 6): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST L5 STERLING A 6
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 6): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 9 Side B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 7): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 4 STERLING A 1 1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 7): BZLP 2 B//1 ▽EST STERLING 1 1 B 2 0
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 8): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 6 STERLING A 1 4
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 8): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING 1 1 Side B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 9): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 3 STERLING A 2
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 9): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST 1 1 STERLING 4 Side B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 10): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 14 STERLING A 1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 10): BZLP 2 B//1▽EST STERLING 1 1 B 4 1
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, var. 11): BZLP 2 A//2▽EST 1 1 STERLING A 1 4
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, var. 11): BZLP 2 B//2▽EST STERLING 5 1 Side B
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Repress, Stereo) | Some Bizzare | 529814 | 1981 | |||
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album) | Some Bizzare | VOG-1-3309 | Canada | 1981 | ||
| Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album) | Some Bizzare | 63 59 087 | Spain | 1981 | |||
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Jacksonville Pressing) | Sire | SRK 3647 | US | 1981 | ||
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (LP, Album, Stereo) | Vertigo | 6359 087 | Netherlands | 1981 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Production is gorgeous, be it the sparseness of Seedy Films or the frenzied layers of Sex Dwarf (which is possibly the best song ever written). This pressing sounds incredible.
Music: 9/10
Pressing: 9/10 -
Best album cover of all time. You want to know what the album sounds like? Look at this sleeve.
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It's been over 30 years since I've listened to this album. It holds up extremely well. I had forgotten how much I LOVE Soft Cell. I knew I liked them, but had forgotten I loved them.
First, Marc Almond's voice is amazing. Even songs that with another artist would be boring, his voice holds you and entices you to listen deeply to the lyrics he is singing. The result is an album where every song is worth listening to and feeling too.
Several of the songs were hits. Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf for example. The album ending with Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, is just - very satisfying.
Great album. -
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Marc Almond sang "Youth has gone, but somehow I don't really mind" and "Chips on my shoulder, more as I get older" at age 24?! WTF! -
if you turn the back of the cover 90° to the right, the sign on the bottom right looks like sausages on a grill -
It would appear that I'm the only person here that doesn't think Non stop erotic cabaret is Soft Cell's best album!
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I have a copy that matches the UK first press in every way except its got black and white labels.Anyone else come across this?
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A seemingly concept album with two main concepts, 'social anxiety' and 'deviant sexuality'. Just in the first three tracks, the album takes us from having a mid-life crisis ("Frustration"), to a failed relationship ("Tainted Love"), to going downtown to the Red Light District, going to porno theaters and other classy things. David Ball's extremely talented layered synth melodies hook you in and go perfectly with Marc Almond's varied singing. The album produced the infamous "Sex Dwarf" track, about Hardcore BDSM, with an appropriate video that was seized by authorities. This incident was parodied in their video album "Non-Stop Exotic Video Show", where they recounted the incident and made a new Sex Dwarf video that was purposfully terrible and pointless.
A complete and utter Synthpop classic
5/5 -
I just listened to this album for the first time less than a month ago and had to get it. I've owned the singles collection for more than a decade, but I had no idea this album was so amazing! I read that only two synths were used, but they must have used them well, because this sounds WAY ahead of it's time. I can't wait to check out the other Soft Cell albums.
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