# Gloria Jones — Tainted Love

Gloria Jones’s Tainted Love (1964) appears on 2 of our lists — Northern Soul and Sung to Someone, highest at No. 5 in Northern Soul. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1964
- **On:** Northern Soul and Sung to Someone
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Artist:** [Gloria Jones](https://waxonia.com/artist/gloria-jones/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/gloria-jones--tainted-love/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 5 in [Northern Soul](https://waxonia.com/genre/northern-soul/)

A B-side nobody bought, resurrected on the Northern circuit, and then turned by Soft Cell into a global synth-pop hit. The original is faster and considerably angrier.

### Picked by [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/)

An address delivered at a run. "You don't really want any more from me" is not an observation about love, it is an accusation with somebody on the end of it, and the two-minute sprint is a woman getting it said before she loses her nerve.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Gloria%20Jones%20Tainted%20Love) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAPgjcVDOc)

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