i melt with you Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/i-melt-with-you/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:41:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Modern English “After the Snow” https://vinylfromthevault.com/modern-english-after-the-snow-1982-later-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=modern-english-after-the-snow-1982-later-this Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:20:58 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/modern-english-after-the-snow-1982-later-this/ Modern English “After the Snow” 1982. Later this week we are going to the Retro Futura concert at Wisconsin State Fair which will feature Modern English along with other 80′s new wave acts English Beat (I’m particularly excited about that one), Men Without Hats, Howard Jones, Paul Young, and Katrina and the Waves. After the Snow is Modern English’s [...]

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]]> Modern English “After the Snow” 1982. Later this week we are going to the Retro Futura concert at Wisconsin State Fair which will feature Modern English along with other 80′s new wave acts English Beat (I’m particularly excited about that one), Men Without Hats, Howard Jones, Paul Young, and Katrina and the Waves. After the Snow is Modern English’s second release and features the monster smash “I Melt With You,” the most pop-orientated track on the album, along with two other singles: “Life in the Gladhouse,” a vaguely dark synth pop track with powerful tribal drums, and my favorite from the LP “Someone’s Calling,” which is also touched with shadowy romance yet still totally danceable. Overall the album is really quite good – a lot of sophisticated post punk beats and melodies (“Face of Wood” takes its sweet time to develop, as does the stark, slow burning “Dawn Chorus”). The title track, “After the Snow,” blends acoustic and electric jangly guitar and creates a dynamic tension between varying rhythms and vocal intensities (the good old “loud-quiet-loud” song structure). The album – and the title track in particular – does not feel at all dated the way that many 80′s productions do.

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]]> 11590 Modern English “I Melt With You” https://vinylfromthevault.com/modern-english-i-melt-with-you-1982-12-single/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=modern-english-i-melt-with-you-1982-12-single Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:42:41 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3561 Modern English “I Melt With You” 1982. 12″ single b/w “Life in the Gladhouse” and “Someone’s Calling.” It’s a freakishly warm day here for March 8th in the upper Midwest, 70 degrees, all balmy sunshine and sweet breezes; exactly one week ago we had a minor snowstorm (a few inches but we just shrug and get out the [...]

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]]> Modern English “I Melt With You” 1982. 12″ single b/w “Life in the Gladhouse” and “Someone’s Calling.” It’s a freakishly warm day here for March 8th in the upper Midwest, 70 degrees, all balmy sunshine and sweet breezes; exactly one week ago we had a minor snowstorm (a few inches but we just shrug and get out the shovels) and now that snow has melted so, yeah, that’s today’s theme.

“I Melt With You” was a new wave one-hit wonder in the 80′s (so 80′s that it was featured in the film Valley Girl) and has been practically played to death in subsequent years, worst of all in commercials for Burger King and Taco Bell (sorry marketing geniuses, your appeal to this Gen-Xer did not get me eating at either crappy fast food chain). Only a bit less offensive is its use by Hershey to promote holiday milk chocolate (but this is mainly because I like chocolate). The B-side of “I Melt With You” is definitely worth a listen. “Someone’s Calling” is a perfect swirling 80′s new wave dance track, full of keyboards, poppy rhythm and echo-ey vocals.

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