Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Even though I was a hardcore Fall fan and serious beer drinker in my student years, I loved Soft Cell in a way I couldn't explain. Coming back to this, their 1981 debut album, I enjoyed it a lot although some of the lyrics leave something to be desired - how did Marc Almond think, at the age of 24, he knew enough about middle-aged middle-class ennui to write a song about it ("Frustration")? But any sins are pardonable on a record which includes "Say Hello Wave Goodbye". Again, the lyrics are laughable because the song is about the end of a passionate but doomed heterosexual affair, but the person from whose point of view the song is sung from is obviously gay. Or is that why the affair was doomed? Either way, it doesn't matter: it's a wonderful song.