![]() ![]() It was originally planned for the maxi-single of 7, but Prince liked the track, and wanted to include it on the album. The track was registered as 7 Hours (I Wanna Melt With U) on 7 July 1992 at the Library of Congress. While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in Spring 1992, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. ![]() Wanna Melt With U is the eighth track (seventh song) on Prince’s 14th album, the second album to be credited to Prince and the New Power Generation. ![]() This song is not known to have been performed live other than on the Act I tour.Act I tour (lyrical interpolation in And God Created Woman/ 3 Chains O’ Gold only).December 1992: Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (Only known full performance, all other renditions are a lyrical interpolation in And God Created Woman/ 3 Chains O’ Gold only).It’s pretty clear that it still resonates today.Prince (credited to Prince and the New Power Generation) “And the comments that people left that it cheered them up, or it made them feel better. “The quarantine version of it has gone ballistic,” says Grey. Nearly 40 years later, Modern English returned to “I Melt With You,” re-recording a “From Quarantine” rendition with the band-guitarist Gary McDowell, bassist Michael Conroy, keyboardist Stephen Walker, and drummer Roy Martin-from their respective homes during lockdown. The first work he ever did was a ‘Gathering Dust’ 11-inch single, and the last work he ever did was ‘I Melt with You.’ He started with us, and ended with us. “He was our friend,” says Grey of Oliver, who also worked with the band in later years for their seventh album, Soundtrack, in 2007. Oliver, who passed away December 2019 at the age of 62, was responsible for some of the most iconic album cover art throughout the past four decades, including Modern English’s fellow 4AD label partners at the time, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, and Clan of Xymox and later crafted the abstract surrealism of the Pixies’ Doolittle and The Breeders’ candied heart burst of Last Splash. Grey laughs that “I Melt With You” is always the last song in the band’s set, because they wouldn’t know how the audience may react if they played anything following it.Ĭoming full circle with “I Melt With You,” the band called on their longtime friend, artist Vaughan Oliver to create the cover art work for the track prior to the band’s now-postponed 40th anniversary tour. In 2011, the song’s title even inspired I Melt with You, an artsy drama, starring Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven, unraveling a college reunion that goes awry. Several years later, the band re-recorded “I Melt with You” on fifth album, 1990’s Pillow Lips, following Modern English’s reformation with founding member Mick Conroy and Aaron Davidson. ![]() Overshadowing other After the Snow singles “Life in the Gladhouse” and “Someone’s Calling,” “I Melt With You,” was first popularized when it was featured in the 1983 Nicolas Cage teen rom-com Valley Girl. Never comprehending the race has long gone by I made a pilgrimage to save this human race listeners more, giving it an almost West Coast feel. Recording in the English countryside also gave After the Snow a very pastoral sound, which Grey says resonated with U.S. I’ll stop the world and melt with you “I Melt with You,” artwork by Vaughan Oliver He showed me how to stand in front of a microphone and just talk into it, so that’s how you get that almost spoken word thing, which is what I think is kind of the charm of it, I suppose.” “I wrote the words, but I never actually stood next to a mic and talked into it before. “He put them all in an order, and that’s how the musical side of it came about with the lyrics,” shares Grey. ![]()
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