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Punk and New Wave covers

Soft Cell's "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" album includes their cover of Gloria Jones's 1965 song, "Tainted Love."
Soft Cell's "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" album includes their cover of Gloria Jones's 1965 song, "Tainted Love."Some Bizarre Records
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by Jake Rudh

December 16, 2022

This week's show is about cover songs — but all covers from a very specific period of time: that time being the first wave of punk rock and the scene that followed closely behind, New Wave. If there's one common thing that these artists like to cover, it was the awesome tunes of the 1960s. I'm going to prove that to you this Thursday night on the program.

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