The original 4:11 album version features no call-and-response vocals in the second verse, and features a synthesizer break that begins at the second chorus. He subsequently employed a softer vocal technique on the rest of the album. Producer Hugh Jones encouraged Grey to softly sing the vocal track, as opposed to his natural inclination to shout. Musically, the song came together in the band's rehearsal space in London while recording their second album, After the Snow. In an interview, he described the song as a "love song", but more about the "good and bad in people The last thing we wanted was to write a song where boy meets girl, they go to the cinema and make love, and that's the end of it." The song depicts a couple making love while an atomic bomb is dropped. There'd be no power-you'd be at home with candles." These conditions and his fears of a nuclear war inspired "I Melt with You". The band's vocalist, Robbie Grey, described England at the time of the song's writing to be a bleak place, due to an ongoing economic downturn: "There was no money. The group signed with 4AD, a British independent record label, in 1980. Modern English formed in 1979 in Colchester, Essex, England. It reached number seven on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock chart in 1983 and a re-release reached number 76 on its Hot 100 chart in 1990 (after reaching number 78 in 1983). It became the band's most successful single, largely in the United States, where it was featured in the film Valley Girl and on MTV. The song, produced by Hugh Jones, was the second single from their 1982 album After the Snow. Note, however, that the version of "I Melt with You" is not the bopping hit rendition instead, it's a long, slow remake, perhaps to imply that the friends' lives are not as peppy and exciting as they used to be." I Melt with You" is a song by the British new wave band Modern English. Clearly, these are guys who spent a significant part of their adolescences playing air guitar, and those sounds have followed them into adulthood. Sometimes, the lyrics seem to suggest the movie's themes, such as Big Dipper's "All Going Out Together" and Bauhaus' "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything." The occasional outlier appears, none farther out than all ten minutes of Funkadelic's 1971 psychedelic guitar freak-out "Maggot Brain." (In the album notes, Pellington says that when a DJ friend turned him on to the track, he tried it under every scene in the movie, "and it worked gangbusters.") Even here, though, the electric guitar excursion is a constant. This is often British post-punk/new wave rock, with lots of chiming guitars and portentous vocals. The story of four male friends who stage a weekend reunion each year is pegged to the songs they loved in their youth, that being in the early '80s, and so the 30 songs chosen for use in the film (of which 13 are heard on the soundtrack album, along with a brief taste of the background score by tomandandy) tend to be drawn from that era, not only as performed by Modern English, but also the Specials, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets, the Pixies, Bauhaus, and Adam & the Ants. That title gives an indication of exactly what sort of music, too. Music plays a big part in director Mark Pellington's film I Melt with You, as the title reference to Modern English's 1982 single suggests.
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