American artist Marilyn Manson covered Tainted Love with an arrangement based on Soft Cell's version, and released it as a single from the Not Another Teen Movie soundtrack.It was released in 2001. It was later included on the band's following album The Golden Age of Grotesque as a bonus track.loria Jones version (1965) [edit]. American artist Gloria Jones recorded the original version of Tainted Love, which was written and produced by Ed Cobb. It was the B-side to the 1965 single My Bad Boy's Comin' Home, which was a commercial flop, failing to chart in either the US or the UK.