Sleaze, subversion and solipsism in seedy suburbia - Soft Cell covered it all in their brilliant but brief career as electropop pioneers. Tainted Love was the jewel in their crown, but there were plenty more fantastic songs, as this DVD companion to their classic 1981 album attests. It's basically a collection of promos, loosely linked with occasional introductions from a distinctly squiffy-looking Marc Almond.
Like the songs themselves, the films bask in an aura of comic self-aggrandisement and petulant self-parody. Tainted Love finds Almond dressed as a pampered Roman emperor, sitting on a flower-bedecked swing and encouraging a young girl to stick her hand in a tank full of piranhas.
Along with the psycho-farce of Frustration (murder in an English garden with added 1960s psychedelia), it's one of the band's droller visions of hell. Disappointingly, the full version of the BBC-banned Sex Dwarf video is not here; nor are there any extra features - frustrating when you consider how entertaining a full Almond commentary would have been.