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Modern English -- Melt with You [Lockdown Version from 2020]
Modern English via You Tube ^ | June 30, 2020 | Modern English

Posted on 08/22/2022 8:09:41 AM PDT by beaversmom

I was reminded of the original of this song when I saw the article linked below pop up on my news feed a couple of weeks back. Then the original song came up on Spotify today so I read the article and found this 2020 Lockdown version of the song. Love seeing these guys all old...lol. Just made me happy. This song to me is the epitome of the English New Wave movement. I saw them in 1982 at a small venue. My second ever concert...my first being The Who. I was 15 just about to turn 16, I'm guessing. Read the comments on the original and this version. Guaranteed to make you feel good. So many people have such sweet/bittersweet memories of this song. Nice way to start the day today.


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1 posted on 08/22/2022 8:09:41 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Thank you for posting this.


2 posted on 08/22/2022 8:13:25 AM PDT by Edward Teach ( )
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XC9YY1urT8Q&list=RDXC9YY1urT8Q&start_radio=1


3 posted on 08/22/2022 8:14:35 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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This was one of the great songs of my early adulthood years. I was still in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Pendleton when this one came out. Still sounds fresh even today.

It was interesting to see the band members performing the song from their homes 40 years later. However it was sad to see them all isolated in their own homes. They call it the "Lockdown Version" but the lockdown was so unnecessary.

4 posted on 08/22/2022 8:15:01 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,888,236 users on Truth Social)
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To: beaversmom
This is what I associate the song with;
Valley Girl (8/12) Movie CLIP - I Melt With You (1983) HD
5 posted on 08/22/2022 8:15:11 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Yeh, I’m just finding out it was in that movie. I never saw it. I was an MTV junkie in the 80s so I only knew it from there.


6 posted on 08/22/2022 8:17:36 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Yay! Nuclear annihilation! Let’s play it at the Prom!🤗


7 posted on 08/22/2022 8:21:04 AM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /joke?)
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I found it nice to see into their individual homes...all rocking out “together’.


8 posted on 08/22/2022 8:22:31 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Valley Girl had a great soundtrack. It was Nicolas Cage’s second film role, and first under that name (he used his birth name Nicolas Coppola for Fast Times at Ridgemont High).


9 posted on 08/22/2022 8:23:18 AM PDT by drjimmy
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Yay! Nuclear annihilation! Let’s play it at the Prom!🤗

LOL, like basically every song The Fixx ever did.

10 posted on 08/22/2022 8:23:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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There’s nothing in the lyrics or sound that has an anihilation feel even though that is the meaning. That’s why so many people get a good feel from it.


11 posted on 08/22/2022 8:25:28 AM PDT by beaversmom
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I do remember him having a very small role in Fast Times.


12 posted on 08/22/2022 8:26:28 AM PDT by beaversmom
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God stuff, the girly guitarist has transformed into a tattooed beast.

This was a trend for a while, old bands getting together to do a tune using the lockdown gimmick. Some good stuff came from it, some from bands that would never perform together in other circumstances. For instance this is another lockdown track from a different band/era, Fountains of Wayne doing "Hackensack". It's poignant because its also a tribute to the band's co-founder Adam Schlesinger who died from COVID early on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsjiMsRMtI

13 posted on 08/22/2022 8:27:40 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Thanks for posting. I have not heard of that band.

I did see a few lockdown performances on YT. This slightly diff version of NDs Sweet Caroline is one I recall:

https://youtu.be/qxnETrhOIAE


14 posted on 08/22/2022 8:35:42 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Fountains of Wayne is a band that never made it big but was beloved in the NYC area and among the hipsters of the era. They were best known for "Stacey's Mom" which became a hit but is definitely not their best song.

I love that Neil Diamond one (never saw before) because during lockdowns my 14 year old daughter who was struggling emotionally with the isolation so I bought her a guitar and started to teach her and the first song we worked on was 'Sweet Caroline'. I chose it because I wanted something she knew and everybody knows it to this day, plus it's the chords are simple and it was fun for me to do my best Neil Diamond voice for the vocals. Seeing Neil do a stripped down version reminds me of our own "lockdown sessions".

15 posted on 08/22/2022 8:47:38 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Very nice on teaching your daughter guitar.


16 posted on 08/22/2022 9:05:14 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Excellent video! I was also in my early to mid teens when I first heard them. As you said, great memories from the pinnacle of the new wave invasion. So glad we grew up back then and not in this musical wasteland of today.


17 posted on 08/22/2022 9:18:39 AM PDT by Nicojones
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Modern English is still releasing new music and tours regularly.


18 posted on 08/22/2022 9:23:16 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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Modern English is still releasing new music and tours regularly.

One of those bands that you never want to hear say, "And now here's a song from our new album!"

19 posted on 08/22/2022 9:24:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Fountains of Wayne hotline….

https://youtu.be/7vVJ2Om-QVg


20 posted on 08/22/2022 9:24:49 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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