Panic/Tainted Love

"Panic / Tainted Love"
Single by Coil
from the album Scatology
A-side
  • "Aqua Regis"
  • "Panic"
B-side"Tainted Love"
Released1985
GenreIndustrial
LabelSome Bizzare
Producer(s)
  • Coil
  • JG Thirlwell
Coil singles chronology
"Panic / Tainted Love"
(1985) 		"The Anal Staircase"
(1987)
Music video
"Tainted Love" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

"Panic" and "Tainted Love" are songs recorded by British experimental music band Coil. These were released in 1985 through Some Bizzare in the UK and Wax Trax! Records in the US respectively, as the band's first[2][3] single,[a] and the sole one from their 1984 debut studio album, Scatology.[7][8] Originally released on twelve-inch vinyl discs, the single was regarded as the first AIDS benefit release, and has been reissued several times on compact discs.

"Panic", co-written and co-produced by the band with JG Thirlwell, is the second track on Scatology, and explores the theme of an initiatory approach to experience, as well as the using of fear; its remixed version is featured on the single's A-side.[b] "Tainted Love", originally written by Ed Cobb and popularly known after its recording by new wave duo Soft Cell, was included as the B-side,[b] having been drastically re-arranged to reflect HIV/AIDS epidemic, emerged in the early 1980s. The music video for "Tainted Love", directed by the band's member Peter Christopherson and featuring Marc Almond, has caused a minor controversy during its release, and has been purchased by the Museum of Modern Art.

  1. ^ a b c Chadbourne, Eugene. "Panic - Coil". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Lewis, Scott (May–June 1992). "Human Rites: Coil's Agony and Ecstasy". Option. No. 44. Retrieved April 13, 2018 – via Brainwashed archive.
  3. ^ a b Coil 1997, "Panic (12" Version)".
  4. ^ Gossling 2003, p. 215; Bey & Bailey 2012, p. 396.
  5. ^ "Coil — History" (PDF). The Feverish. No. 3. April 9, 1985. Retrieved February 12, 2018 – via Brainwashed archive. April sees the release of a 12" -a de-structured version of Panic, coupled with a short track called "Aqua Regis" and our desecratory but sensitive (!) version of "Tainted Love". A new slant is given to this title since all profits from this EP are being donated to AIDS counciling via the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  6. ^ Matt Keeley (August 14, 2016). "WATCH: The First Ever AIDS Charity Music Single was Incredibly Dark and Boldly Gay". Hornet. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  7. ^ a b Gabriele, Timothy (December 2, 2010). "Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson: 1955-2010". PopMatters. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  8. ^ Reed 2013, p. 143.
  9. ^ Sanders & Gaffney 1987, p. X, "Compilation Track Information".
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference ToA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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