THE YEAR IS 1982!
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This sounds like an upbeat love song, but it’s more apocalyptic than you might expect. With lyrics about “the world crashing all around your face” and “a pilgrimage to save this human’s race,” it really does take place with the world about to end, and the melting is quite literal. Modern English lead singer Robbie Grey, who wrote the song with his four bandmates, explained: “I don’t think many people realized it was about a couple making love as the bomb dropped. As they made love, they become one and melt together.”
- While the song was never a big chart success, it has stood the test of time and is considered a new wave classic. The song gained some traction when MTV gave the video plenty of airplay.
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This was the only hit for Modern English, but it wasn’t typical of their sound. They were a punk band, and most of their songs were a lot more raw than this one. “We’d normally been more of a punk rock band, more edgy, so this was one of our first forays into verse, chorus, verse, chorus,” Robbie Grey said. “We didn’t really understand that songwriting thing.”
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This was used on Stranger Things in the season 1 episode “The Weirdo On Maple Street” during the pool party scene at Steve’s house.
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