Danny Noriega
Tainted Love
If the '80s did not exist, Danny Noriega would have had to invent them. (An entire decade full of weirdly androgynous male singers—how did he choose?) You could ask why a totally reworked arrangement of a Soft Cell song that was itself a '60s original counts as an '80s song. But the fact is, this is the first week that Danny sounds actually good, as opposed to so-amusing-I-wish-he-were-good.