It doesn't get more 80's than this song. This is one of those guys that even the tough guys listen to...granted they may roll their windows up so no one can catch them, but they like it anyway.
I was thinking the same thing. I was a teenage metalhead in the '80s but I dug this song. For me this song is unmatched when it comes to bringing on the 80's nostalgia.
Brad's little brother got it. It's clearly stated, they're singing about being with the one you love and want time to stop there so you could be in the moment with that person.
I can't help but think that if Brad and Lex have a kid, it's going to grow up to be just like Brad's brother. He's literally the halfway point between the two of them, combining Lex's bubbly energy with Brad's calmness.
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."
@@Johonnac worth it. Another one kind of in the same ballpark is The Comsat Angels. Sleep No More is my favorite album. It's not on Spotify but it is on RUclips.
Some time ago while on a walk with my Late wife in a back country mountain road in the Mountains of Santa Cruz, a breeze came up and disturbed a bunch of blossoms from a tree near by. Surrounded by falling pedals I took her into my arms and with no words, just a kiss, told her how much I loved her. The road disappeared, the warmth of the sun faded to nothing, My concentration was totally on her. I lost all my 5 senses of my surroundings. Literally I knew nothing but her in my arms. All I knew was her as she filled every part of me. Time seemed to have stopped as what I felt what was part of what I was, touched what she was. she Filled me with her soul. The World stopped and I melted with her. We parted lips after an unknown time and she said "Wow !" . After kissing for 20 years, she said "Wow !" No matter how many times I've tried to repeat it, I have not been successful with that touching who she was. She passed away from Cancer in 2009. the only girl/woman I have ever dated or kissed, I married. No Regrets. When I pass, I will ask God for that moment back.
I saw this group in concert when I was 17 in 1984. They were great and it was so much fun! We got to meet the musicians after the show and they were so nice and funny. I cherish that memory and I listen to this song every week!
Brad at 2:35 is worth a replay. Younger brother nailed it. “Stop the world” = stop time, hold this moment forever; “Melt with you” = melt together, become one. What stands out to me about this song is the lyrics; it’s a love song that isn’t filled with conventional love song tropes/language (e.g. you’re so beautiful, I love you, baby baby baby, etc.)
i never heard of this song but it gave me the vibes , going on my playlist , and also reminded me of the cure ~boys don't cry and just like heaven, gives the joyful feeling
The song is about lovers literally melting together during a nuclear war. “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.” ~Modern English frontman Robbie Grey
This song makes me so happy! It’s about being happy in love! They were one of the many British bands, like Duran Duran , Culture Club, The Police, etc, to chart in the US in the second British Invasion in the eighties! The first British Invasion was in the sixties with the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc!❤️❤️
This was one of the best new wave punk love songs ever. I remember when it first came out in the early '80s. Song and video was really big on the radio and MTV here in the US. It was something very different, catchy, fun and new. A lot of music from that genre was. People still requested this song a lot into the '90s and '00s on the radio stations on love song nights lol Reminds me of going to skating rinks back when I was a kid.
Danced to this with my now wife so many times in the early 80's. This song is very much of it's time, the little thing that was always in the back of our minds, even though we needed to just keep moving on with our lives. This one really brings back many, many memories for us, 38 years later, happy we just kept moving on :)
SO glad you checked them out! I’ve seen a gazillion concerts across many genres & Modern English’ energy as they often pogoed through entire songs WAS MONDO TURBO INSANE!! The sold out Hub Ballroom had fans so caught up in the energy, they were dropping all off ver the place till the fire marshal finally started hosing down the crowd with hoses set to a fine mist! HAD TO BE EXPERIENCED TO UNDERSTAND! But the CRAZY thing was what good musicians they were!! Way to keep it eclectic!! 💥👊🍻
When you are listening to this song, you have to consider that you are hearing it almost 40 years after the fact, this was a very unique sound at the time, and was THE love song for a time for the new wave/alternative rock crowd. So much that you have heard that came later, owes their sound to this early 80s music which broke the mold. The 1983 movie Valley Girl was Nicholas Cage's breakout role, which had this song on the soundtrack, and was one of the first 80s teen movies, I believe Fast Times at Ridgemont High might have been the first big one, then came the John Hughes movies in the mid 80s. From your perspective 40 years later, this may seem nice & unremarkable, but at the time, it was anything but.
When you're ready for more early eighties tunes with sonic vibes like this one, check out some of these: The Beat "Save It for Later", The Icicle Works "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)", Siouxsie & The Banshees "Christine", The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", Adam Ant "Stand And Deliver", and Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy".
Definitely one of my most favorite songs of all time. I never want it to end. I've never NOT wanted to hear this song....never turned it off when it comes on the radio.
I feel the Swedish fish… how had i not gotten that before? That smooth sweet tartness that goes between dry, crumbly, gummi, and smooth at a comfortable pace that just… works
The importance of this song is the moment in time it represents. At this point in New Wave we felt like we were listening to future music, it was edgy disruptive pop, it was pop stripped of the sounds of the 70s or the 60s. We knew we were writing the recipe for a new era in music and fashion, it was sooooo different from the music previous and synthesizers and computers were bursting into the world of music finally on a big scale and that was the future...
Weirdly, that came off as material for a great SNL skit. Swedish Fish?? LOL. I think this is one of those songs for we "old folk" who who grew up with it because it evokes a really great time in our lives. The 80s were upbeat and had a lot of great music and movies for teens. This song is from "Valley Girl," which was something quintessential to the vibe of the time. I love this song so much. It's makes me so joyful whenever I hear it. Thanks for picking it for a reaction. Cheers!
80s Valley Girl (movie) song. One of the initial (New Wave ) sounds from Britian, that we called New Wave starting with bands at the end of the Punk movement, like Blondie, Pretenders, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
This is one of the quintessential 80s songs. Absolutely love this song. They made a quarantine version in the last year or so which is really, really good, too. Like many songs in the early 80s, in particular, this song is about the Cold War threat of nuclear war, in this case, being with your lover while the bombs detonate and 'melting with you'.
VALLEY GIRL --------- ONE of my favorite 80's Movies EVER!!!!! You need to watch it!!!! It's **TOTALLY** the culture of the 80's!!! It's "NARLY" LOLLL **GAG ME WITH A SPOON** LOLLL --- Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer? The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away --- Bonnie Hayes --- Girl Like Me --- Who can it be now -- Men At Work 🧡💛💚💙💜🤎❤ BERTO IS REALLY INTO THIS YAYYY
This was a very catchy and popular song that it was used in so many commercials on tv. Mostly because of the lyrics "Meld with You". Companies that make eatable products, like candy bars used the song in their tv commercials, to promote their products. Check out the song "The Promise" by When in Rome another great catchy and popular song from the New Wave era.
You guys are all over the map musically.I love it.I think when you get out of your comfort zone and broaden your horizons.Growth will come.Music is very much like food to me too.Different flavors and textures.Btw.This is a great song.It’s about the music and vibe.Nothing flashy but, a good vibe.Love this channel!!
Part of the postpunk/new wave era. Music that wasn't as basic as punk, but spoke to disaffected people who didn't listen to and often despised pop music/ being common
Love me some Modern English! Melt With You (A dark love song) was probably their biggest hit, the following albums were more progressive and although great, didn't get much radio play. Hands Across The Sea is another great tune from them. Richard Brown rocks on the drums, especially on subsequent albums, he supposedly learned drums by listening to Rush albums and emulating Neil Peart. Nice reaction couch gang. I've been groovin' on the 80's Mod & New Wave stuff you've been reacting to, but am having withdrawals due to no MetaLex. 😁
I can relate to that feeling..... There was a small clock radio in my room as a kid, and I used to listen to the radio when I was playing with my space lego sets. Kenny Loggins had just released a song back then, and it was all over the radio.... and to this day, when I see a set of lego, I hear Kenny Loggins "Heart To Heart" playing in my head.... and when I hear that song out somewhere, I think of playing lego in my room. The two are synonymous.
The label 4AD had many post-punk bands that are considered legends... Bands like the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Lush....... Modern English was one of thier bands with an amazing discography.
Well, you finally hit one of the 3 new wave tunes that knock my socks off. New wave was 10 years behind me so it takes something to crack the hold classic rock has on my psyche but this one - fire!
It’s a happy sounding song with a deeply depressed anxiety filled core. That really is the heart of what it was to live in the early and mid-80s and a lot of cheerful 80s pop is subversive like this. The entire upbeat pastel aesthetic of the decade was a distraction from the constant underlying existential dread caused by the US and USSR’s last round of threatening rhetoric. The Morning After (a mini-series about people trying to cope in the aftermath of a nuclear war) was on the minds of the public around then. Reagan’s Evil Empire speech. The USSR going through a new leader every year for a while. It was the last big period of Cold War paranoia. Everyone old enough to understand the reality of the situation had this deep dark anxiety they tried to ignore on a daily basis. Folks under 45 today seem to just remember the cheerful 80s veneer. The decade partied like it was the end of the world because in the back of our minds, it really felt like it could be. The risk of nuclear war was the highest it had been since the Cuban missile crisis and the pop music sounded like bubblegum pop. As the Cold War wound down, the baseline tension dropped and popular music grew increasingly introspective and brooding, not because the world felt grimmer but because the population was letting go of the deep fears and simply tolerated open darkness in their art better. People seem to forget just how big the shadow of the bomb really was. It’s why there’s a grim almost fatalistic undercurrent in much of the better art from the 80s.
Some time ago while on a walk with my Late wife in a back country mountain road in the Mountains of Santa Cruz, a breeze came up and disturbed a bunch of blossoms from a tree near by. Surrounded by falling pedals I took her into my arms and with no words, just a kiss, told her how much I loved her. The road disappeared, the warmth of the sun faded to nothing, My concentration was totally on her. I lost all my 5 senses of my surroundings. Literally I knew nothing but her in my arms. All I knew was her as she filled every part of me. Time seemed to have stopped as what I felt what was part of what I was, touched what she was. she Filled me with her soul. The World stopped and I melted with her. We parted lips after an unknown time and she said "Wow !" . After kissing for 20 years, she said "Wow !" No matter how many times I've tried to repeat it, I have not been successful with that touching who she was. She passed away from Cancer in 2009. the only girl/woman I have ever dated or kissed, I married. No Regrets. When I pass, I will ask God for that moment back.
It is so cool that you brought your brother, Berto (I hope I caught his name correctly), to participate. While I absolutely love Brad and Lex's reactions, it is nice to have him around, too. Cheers!
I don't know if I've ever heard a song yet that Brad actually "gets" and that he can just enjoy..... If there's anyone who could seemingly snatch the feet out of the mouth of victory, it would be Brad.
wow , this song brings back memories , highschool at the dance club , this song would come on and the dance floor would be packed , great reactions as always
It's a love song about the prospect of nuclear war, which never quite qualified as a "hit" by chart metrics, but which nevertheless became an all time classic.
I was waiting for you guys to do rhis song. !!! Hahaha. I basically took from this song , that no matter what happens in this world , we " my love and I " would always be there for each other ! Hence, I'll stop the world and melt with you !!! I hope you guys watch the actual videos afterwards . These are classic 80's MTV videos !!! Make sure you check them out.
Punk new wave dance music! Sarcastic love song because we were scared of the Cold War and nuclear bombs in the '80s. Very good band with a lot of good songs.
Alternative industrial, British pop like this was my 80's and 90's world. I had a French teacher that was into this stuff and I thought it was the coolest music ever. You guys are going down that road that I am so familiar with and I love it!
Wow me too. Depeche, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Camouflage, Meat Beat Manifesto, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry (i have the "M" tattooed on my forearm), Cure/Siouxie, I could list 20 more...
@@pdog547 I'm sure there were more that I listened to that I didn't know the names of. LOL I just liked that sound. Depeche Mode and New Order for sure though.
I can't recall the last time I'd heard this, but it's been a good 22 plus years, and even back then it was just catching it by chance maybe a couple of times a year. However, I was hearing this all the time on the radio growing up in the 80's. As the song was approaching the first slow down segment, I remembered there being the humming in there.. but nope, wasn't in the first slow down, it was the one after it. Pretty nutty that a random song that you used to hear on the regular growing up over 30 years ago, and that knowing there's that little bit of humming in there, can be embedded in the brain all these years later ;-)
"I'll Melt With You" meaning is about a young couple making love while a Atomic bomb is dropped on the area there In and it make sense because it was the lead song from the movie Valley Girl the movie it's a early' 80s version of Romeo & Juliet
I'm Canadian.. and lived in California when the movie Valley Girl came out with Nicholas Cage. Anyway.. my point is that.. this song was on the movie soundtrack and how I discovered the song! I fell immediately in love with the track!!! Now I can't for the life of me hear this song.. and not think about that movie.. being 16.. learning to surf.. and meeting California valley girls for real!!! My best friend of that Summer was a valley girl named Tina.. and you can only imagine us as teens teasing the hell out of each other for our accents and mannerisms!!! Good times!!! Great reaction guys!! You made my day! 🤣
The 80s were so happy... Everyone was so happy... Big hair, big clothes, big parties, big smiles... No one was angry.. If you were out somewhere, a fight breaking out was considered rude... it was so much fun...
Yeah Berto's right on. I think if you just fell in love with someone new you'd smile constantly listening to this song. But I believe I read it was written around like....wanting to express/have love during a time when there was fear of possible nuclear war. Not a perfect explanation. But I read that somewhere
Thank you. Love this song. This was a great song to dance to back in the day....one hand in your pocket. It got imprinted in my brain forever thanks to the movie Valley Girl, which you should check out if you haven't. Lots of good songs in that.
At this point, when Lex says something as out there as a song feels like you're eating swedish fish, I get it. Somehow it makes sense. And then the bit about the world stops spinning so the sun melts you. She's smarter than I.
A wonderful song from a great era. I was fortunate to graduate high school in 1987 and marry my teen sweetheart two years later to close out that magical decade. We always reminisce about those times.
Donny Darko .,.“Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.”
This song was so huge! One of the best things about 80s music, we had so many popular genres, all with good music, and all at the same time! So much variety and quality, we didn't know it was an anomaly and wouldn't last
THE 80s song. Your brother is an Awesome addition and he nailed this song. This song, as most 80s songs were for younger people breaking away from the harder rock sounds. I was 19 when this song came out.
in the middle / end of the song it slows down and the singer sings mm mmm mm , at that moment everybody would stop danceing : ) and lay on the floor until the drums would kick in and soon as the drums did kick in everybody would jump up and started dancing again
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It doesn't get more 80's than this song. This is one of those guys that even the tough guys listen to...granted they may roll their windows up so no one can catch them, but they like it anyway.
I was thinking the same thing. I was a teenage metalhead in the '80s but I dug this song.
For me this song is unmatched when it comes to bringing on the 80's nostalgia.
@@NeonNights80 It's kind of like "Don't You Forget About Me"ish. Unisex songs.
So much of the music that is obviously from the '80s has not aged well, but this song has.
@@NeonNights80 When you understand the lyrics it's kinda metal as f***. Let's make out during the nuclear apocalypse.
Brad's little brother got it. It's clearly stated, they're singing about being with the one you love and want time to stop there so you could be in the moment with that person.
It's about nuclear war and being with the one you love as the nukes go off, hence the melting part.
Yep!
Yes.. lil' bro nailed it!!!!! 🥰
When I think of the 80s I think of this Iconic song 😊
I can't help but think that if Brad and Lex have a kid, it's going to grow up to be just like Brad's brother. He's literally the halfway point between the two of them, combining Lex's bubbly energy with Brad's calmness.
That's weird.
lol they are having one now, crazy how this comment is so long ago lol
His young brother is right, stopping the world because nothing else matters.
Berto was perfect! Hopefully they continue to stuff the couch with him!
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."
The rest of the album is definitely darker than most new wave. I'd call it postpunk.
@@MusicMissionary ...and damn good. The album as a whole is severely underrated IMO.
@@joshroyale7678 Wow, I’ll have to listen to the rest of that album for sure-seriously
@@Johonnac worth it. Another one kind of in the same ballpark is The Comsat Angels. Sleep No More is my favorite album. It's not on Spotify but it is on RUclips.
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Bert, you got the meaning, my man. Kudos dude. It means you are with "the one" and nothing else matters and the rest of the world just goes away.
Seem like that forgot what it felt like to fall in love for the first time. You just want to stop everything and bask in the glory of that love.
Berto gets it! :)
Some time ago while on a walk with my Late wife in a back country mountain road in the Mountains of Santa Cruz, a breeze came up and disturbed a bunch of blossoms from a tree near by. Surrounded by falling pedals I took her into my arms and with no words, just a kiss, told her how much I loved her. The road disappeared, the warmth of the sun faded to nothing, My concentration was totally on her. I lost all my 5 senses of my surroundings. Literally I knew nothing but her in my arms. All I knew was her as she filled every part of me. Time seemed to have stopped as what I felt what was part of what I was, touched what she was. she Filled me with her soul. The World stopped and I melted with her. We parted lips after an unknown time and she said "Wow !" . After kissing for 20 years, she said "Wow !" No matter how many times I've tried to repeat it, I have not been successful with that touching who she was. She passed away from Cancer in 2009. the only girl/woman I have ever dated or kissed, I married. No Regrets. When I pass, I will ask God for that moment back.
@@MatthewPettyST1300 Sorry to hear you lost your wife. Glad you had the perfect moment with her, you'll always have that memory.
I saw this group in concert when I was 17 in 1984. They were great and it was so much fun! We got to meet the musicians after the show and they were so nice and funny. I cherish that memory and I listen to this song every week!
Brad at 2:35 is worth a replay.
Younger brother nailed it. “Stop the world” = stop time, hold this moment forever; “Melt with you” = melt together, become one. What stands out to me about this song is the lyrics; it’s a love song that isn’t filled with conventional love song tropes/language (e.g. you’re so beautiful, I love you, baby baby baby, etc.)
Although you could make the argument that it’s also about nuclear war. Cold War paranoia was a bitch back then.
i never heard of this song but it gave me the vibes , going on my playlist , and also reminded me of
the cure ~boys don't cry and just like heaven, gives the joyful feeling
Back in the day, this was erroneously listed on Napster and the like as “The Cure - I Stop the World.
The song is about lovers literally melting together during a nuclear war.
“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.” ~Modern English frontman Robbie Grey
One of the BEST New Wave songs!!!
This song makes me so happy! It’s about being happy in love! They were one of the many British bands, like Duran Duran , Culture Club, The Police, etc, to chart in the US in the second British Invasion in the eighties! The first British Invasion was in the sixties with the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc!❤️❤️
Swedish Fish!!!
I love how Lex describes things with food!
Whether it’s the texture of a voice, or the feel of a song, it’s great!!!
I've always loved this song. First time hearing it was off the 80's classic "Valley Girl"...To me this is one of the great love songs of all time!
*Valley Girl.......one of the all time classics.*
Like,totally
@@Whateva67 fur sure
This was one of the best new wave punk love songs ever. I remember when it first came out in the early '80s. Song and video was really big on the radio and MTV here in the US. It was something very different, catchy, fun and new. A lot of music from that genre was. People still requested this song a lot into the '90s and '00s on the radio stations on love song nights lol
Reminds me of going to skating rinks back when I was a kid.
Just found you guys and subbed. Lex is amazing and her energy is infectious. You can tell she’s totally honest and enjoying the music.
Watch the movie "Valley Girl" when you get a chance. This song is featured in it. Iconic movie.
Julie and Randy melted...
Great soundtrack as well
That's how I was introduced to the song, way back in the 80's.
Yes!! This song and that movie are inextricably linked in my mind, love them both
Totally !!!! LOL
Danced to this with my now wife so many times in the early 80's. This song is very much of it's time, the little thing that was always in the back of our minds, even though we needed to just keep moving on with our lives. This one really brings back many, many memories for us, 38 years later, happy we just kept moving on :)
SO glad you checked them out!
I’ve seen a gazillion concerts across many genres & Modern English’ energy as they often pogoed through entire songs WAS MONDO TURBO INSANE!! The sold out Hub Ballroom had fans so caught up in the energy, they were dropping all off ver the place till the fire marshal finally started hosing down the crowd with hoses set to a fine mist!
HAD TO BE EXPERIENCED TO UNDERSTAND! But the CRAZY thing was what good musicians they were!!
Way to keep it eclectic!! 💥👊🍻
When you are listening to this song, you have to consider that you are hearing it almost 40 years after the fact, this was a very unique sound at the time, and was THE love song for a time for the new wave/alternative rock crowd. So much that you have heard that came later, owes their sound to this early 80s music which broke the mold. The 1983 movie Valley Girl was Nicholas Cage's breakout role, which had this song on the soundtrack, and was one of the first 80s teen movies, I believe Fast Times at Ridgemont High might have been the first big one, then came the John Hughes movies in the mid 80s. From your perspective 40 years later, this may seem nice & unremarkable, but at the time, it was anything but.
When you're ready for more early eighties tunes with sonic vibes like this one, check out some of these: The Beat "Save It for Later", The Icicle Works "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)", Siouxsie & The Banshees "Christine", The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", Adam Ant "Stand And Deliver", and Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy".
Definitely The Beat song next....such a great groove
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If hitting the BEAT, I'd put up "Mirror in the Bathroom" before "Save it for Later."
Love this song!! It was also later used as the Theme song for the movie Valley Girl with Nicholas Cage ! Fun Movie!!
I had the biggest crush on Nicholas Cage after seeing Valley Girl. One of my favorite 80 teen movies!!
Love that movie! Stayed in a theater to watch Valley Girl twice in a row back in 1983, mostly for this song, and the rest of the great soundtrack :)
I saw that movie 3 times at the theater and fell in love with Nicholas Cage as well!
Valley girl had one of the best soundtracks, ever!
@@kellifranklin4432 I freaking bought the movie at 50 years old!!! 😂😂
The way Lex hears music and associates it with tangible elements in the world is strangely fascinating.
I love seeing how positive this young family is. The world needs more of this.
this song has aged well still sounds good to here every now and then
Dam straight.
*hear
Definitely one of my most favorite songs of all time. I never want it to end. I've never NOT wanted to hear this song....never turned it off when it comes on the radio.
I feel the Swedish fish… how had i not gotten that before? That smooth sweet tartness that goes between dry, crumbly, gummi, and smooth at a comfortable pace that just… works
One of the great dance hits of the 80's. The best decade for dancing, stobe lights.
The importance of this song is the moment in time it represents.
At this point in New Wave we felt like we were listening to future music, it was edgy disruptive pop, it was pop stripped of the sounds of the 70s or the 60s.
We knew we were writing the recipe for a new era in music and fashion, it was sooooo different from the music previous and synthesizers and computers were bursting into the world of music finally on a big scale and that was the future...
Weirdly, that came off as material for a great SNL skit. Swedish Fish?? LOL. I think this is one of those songs for we "old folk" who who grew up with it because it evokes a really great time in our lives. The 80s were upbeat and had a lot of great music and movies for teens. This song is from "Valley Girl," which was something quintessential to the vibe of the time. I love this song so much. It's makes me so joyful whenever I hear it. Thanks for picking it for a reaction. Cheers!
What a great day of music with you three... some of my favorite songs just out of the blue! Love it guys, keep it up!
Very iconic of the 80s post punk pop scene which evolved into The New Romantic scene ……Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears,
80s Valley Girl (movie) song. One of the initial (New Wave ) sounds from Britian, that we called New Wave starting with bands at the end of the Punk movement, like Blondie, Pretenders, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
This is one of the biggest one hit wonders of all time. It was featured in the 80’s movie Valley Girl with a young Nick Cage.
One of the best British 80's songs. Truly , there were a lot of them and this is a top 10 easily.
Lex's comparisons are priceless.
This was the first song that came on the bus, my first day of High School. It was starting soon as I sat down. I will never forget this song! Classic.
This is one of the quintessential 80s songs. Absolutely love this song. They made a quarantine version in the last year or so which is really, really good, too. Like many songs in the early 80s, in particular, this song is about the Cold War threat of nuclear war, in this case, being with your lover while the bombs detonate and 'melting with you'.
VALLEY GIRL --------- ONE of my favorite 80's Movies EVER!!!!! You need to watch it!!!! It's **TOTALLY** the culture of the 80's!!! It's "NARLY" LOLLL **GAG ME WITH A SPOON** LOLLL --- Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer? The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away --- Bonnie Hayes --- Girl Like Me --- Who can it be now -- Men At Work 🧡💛💚💙💜🤎❤ BERTO IS REALLY INTO THIS YAYYY
This was a very catchy and popular song that it was used in so many commercials on tv. Mostly because of the lyrics "Meld with You". Companies that make eatable products, like candy bars used the song in their tv commercials, to promote their products. Check out the song "The Promise" by When in Rome another great catchy and popular song from the New Wave era.
This was in "heavy rotation" on the legendary KROQ radio station in Los Angeles for about 20 years.
And now LA is melting.
You guys are all over the map musically.I love it.I think when you get out of your comfort zone and broaden your horizons.Growth will come.Music is very much like food to me too.Different flavors and textures.Btw.This is a great song.It’s about the music and vibe.Nothing flashy but, a good vibe.Love this channel!!
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You guys look like your having a blast ,you should do guest fans every once in awhile ,that b chill
Part of the postpunk/new wave era. Music that wasn't as basic as punk, but spoke to disaffected people who didn't listen to and often despised pop music/ being common
Love me some Modern English! Melt With You (A dark love song) was probably their biggest hit, the following albums were more progressive and although great, didn't get much radio play. Hands Across The Sea is another great tune from them. Richard Brown rocks on the drums, especially on subsequent albums, he supposedly learned drums by listening to Rush albums and emulating Neil Peart. Nice reaction couch gang. I've been groovin' on the 80's Mod & New Wave stuff you've been reacting to, but am having withdrawals due to no MetaLex. 😁
Swedish Fish!!!! I love that reference so much! You all are so great!
British musicians that actually sound British! You've discovered a canny few great ones now. Brilliant take on the song lex 😂😂
BRAD...you are outnumbered!! RUN lmao hahaha Man these reactions are amazing, I love you guys!
One of my favorite 80's songs.
I can relate to that feeling..... There was a small clock radio in my room as a kid, and I used to listen to the radio when I was playing with my space lego sets. Kenny Loggins had just released a song back then, and it was all over the radio.... and to this day, when I see a set of lego, I hear Kenny Loggins "Heart To Heart" playing in my head.... and when I hear that song out somewhere, I think of playing lego in my room. The two are synonymous.
The label 4AD had many post-punk bands that are considered legends...
Bands like the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Lush....... Modern English was one of thier bands with an amazing discography.
This might be my favorite reaction so far.
The kid wins it in the end!
Thanks guys 💛
Well, you finally hit one of the 3 new wave tunes that knock my socks off. New wave was 10 years behind me so it takes something to crack the hold classic rock has on my psyche but this one - fire!
Lex you are a joy to watch, what a beautiful smile. Brad you seem like a cool dude.
It’s a happy sounding song with a deeply depressed anxiety filled core. That really is the heart of what it was to live in the early and mid-80s and a lot of cheerful 80s pop is subversive like this. The entire upbeat pastel aesthetic of the decade was a distraction from the constant underlying existential dread caused by the US and USSR’s last round of threatening rhetoric. The Morning After (a mini-series about people trying to cope in the aftermath of a nuclear war) was on the minds of the public around then. Reagan’s Evil Empire speech. The USSR going through a new leader every year for a while. It was the last big period of Cold War paranoia.
Everyone old enough to understand the reality of the situation had this deep dark anxiety they tried to ignore on a daily basis. Folks under 45 today seem to just remember the cheerful 80s veneer. The decade partied like it was the end of the world because in the back of our minds, it really felt like it could be. The risk of nuclear war was the highest it had been since the Cuban missile crisis and the pop music sounded like bubblegum pop.
As the Cold War wound down, the baseline tension dropped and popular music grew increasingly introspective and brooding, not because the world felt grimmer but because the population was letting go of the deep fears and simply tolerated open darkness in their art better. People seem to forget just how big the shadow of the bomb really was. It’s why there’s a grim almost fatalistic undercurrent in much of the better art from the 80s.
I Loove Lexs Joy in all Music!! She is contagious!! And Lex.. your smile is Beautiful! Y’all make me happy!♥️
Some time ago while on a walk with my Late wife in a back country mountain road in the Mountains of Santa Cruz, a breeze came up and disturbed a bunch of blossoms from a tree near by. Surrounded by falling pedals I took her into my arms and with no words, just a kiss, told her how much I loved her. The road disappeared, the warmth of the sun faded to nothing, My concentration was totally on her. I lost all my 5 senses of my surroundings. Literally I knew nothing but her in my arms. All I knew was her as she filled every part of me. Time seemed to have stopped as what I felt what was part of what I was, touched what she was. she Filled me with her soul. The World stopped and I melted with her. We parted lips after an unknown time and she said "Wow !" . After kissing for 20 years, she said "Wow !" No matter how many times I've tried to repeat it, I have not been successful with that touching who she was. She passed away from Cancer in 2009. the only girl/woman I have ever dated or kissed, I married. No Regrets. When I pass, I will ask God for that moment back.
It is so cool that you brought your brother, Berto (I hope I caught his name correctly), to participate. While I absolutely love Brad and Lex's reactions, it is nice to have him around, too. Cheers!
How have y’all not heard this song? It’s been so n many commercials and movies, most notably “Valley Girl” (a must see).
I don't know if I've ever heard a song yet that Brad actually "gets" and that he can just enjoy..... If there's anyone who could seemingly snatch the feet out of the mouth of victory, it would be Brad.
wow , this song brings back memories , highschool at the dance club , this song would come on and the dance floor would be packed , great reactions as always
The world stops when he is with her!! He is so in love ❤️❤️ Time stands still!! ❤️❤️
This song is forever tied to, and instantly reminds me of the movie"Valley Girl" ......worth watching...
It's a love song about the prospect of nuclear war, which never quite qualified as a "hit" by chart metrics, but which nevertheless became an all time classic.
One of my all time favorite songs. After listening caused me to dig and find other great songs from this era and others.
Yesssss!!!! My Gosh brings back so many memories!! ❤️ Mesh and Lace !! Go DAWGS!! UGA!!
Brad's like,,,,,who are these people ???? 🤣🤣🤣👍🤪
Little brother is correct.
I remember I really liked this girld at this time, and everytime this song came on the radio, it reminded me of her. 1982.
I was waiting for you guys to do rhis song. !!! Hahaha. I basically took from this song , that no matter what happens in this world , we " my love and I " would always be there for each other ! Hence, I'll stop the world and melt with you !!! I hope you guys watch the actual videos afterwards . These are classic 80's MTV videos !!! Make sure you check them out.
Punk new wave dance music! Sarcastic love song because we were scared of the Cold War and nuclear bombs in the '80s. Very good band with a lot of good songs.
The look on Brad's face is priceless. It's like what are you smoking?
Seeing that Berto smile when big brother mentions his name at the start ☺
Alternative industrial, British pop like this was my 80's and 90's world. I had a French teacher that was into this stuff and I thought it was the coolest music ever. You guys are going down that road that I am so familiar with and I love it!
Wow me too. Depeche, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Camouflage, Meat Beat Manifesto, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry (i have the "M" tattooed on my forearm), Cure/Siouxie, I could list 20 more...
@@pdog547 I'm sure there were more that I listened to that I didn't know the names of. LOL I just liked that sound. Depeche Mode and New Order for sure though.
I can't recall the last time I'd heard this, but it's been a good 22 plus years, and even back then it was just catching it by chance maybe a couple of times a year. However, I was hearing this all the time on the radio growing up in the 80's. As the song was approaching the first slow down segment, I remembered there being the humming in there.. but nope, wasn't in the first slow down, it was the one after it.
Pretty nutty that a random song that you used to hear on the regular growing up over 30 years ago, and that knowing there's that little bit of humming in there, can be embedded in the brain all these years later ;-)
"I'll Melt With You" meaning is about a young couple making love while a Atomic bomb is dropped on the area there In and it make sense because it was the lead song from the movie Valley Girl the movie it's a early' 80s version of Romeo & Juliet
I love when Lex laughs she's such a sweetie 😁
Hello... roofing?
This whole album is good. Song was played in the movie, Valley Girl.
I'm Canadian.. and lived in California when the movie Valley Girl came out with Nicholas Cage. Anyway.. my point is that.. this song was on the movie soundtrack and how I discovered the song! I fell immediately in love with the track!!! Now I can't for the life of me hear this song.. and not think about that movie.. being 16.. learning to surf.. and meeting California valley girls for real!!! My best friend of that Summer was a valley girl named Tina.. and you can only imagine us as teens teasing the hell out of each other for our accents and mannerisms!!! Good times!!! Great reaction guys!! You made my day! 🤣
The 80s were so happy... Everyone was so happy... Big hair, big clothes, big parties, big smiles... No one was angry.. If you were out somewhere, a fight breaking out was considered rude... it was so much fun...
This takes me right back to grade school/Jr. High! Such a fun and beautiful song.
Yeah Berto's right on. I think if you just fell in love with someone new you'd smile constantly listening to this song. But I believe I read it was written around like....wanting to express/have love during a time when there was fear of possible nuclear war. Not a perfect explanation. But I read that somewhere
Thank you. Love this song.
This was a great song to dance to back in the day....one hand in your pocket. It got imprinted in my brain forever thanks to the movie Valley Girl, which you should check out if you haven't. Lots of good songs in that.
Great British New Wave song and probably a theme song for many couples including me. The things that Lex comes up with, lol
This Song Is Off Their Album "After The Snow" & It's An ABSOLUTE MUST HEAR ALBUM,, From The First Song To The Very Last..Truth!!
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Great find! I always loved this. I cried and cried when my love died and this song came out.
At this point, when Lex says something as out there as a song feels like you're eating swedish fish, I get it. Somehow it makes sense.
And then the bit about the world stops spinning so the sun melts you.
She's smarter than I.
The single version of this has incredible backing vocals that really add to the song.
A wonderful song from a great era. I was fortunate to graduate high school in 1987 and marry my teen sweetheart two years later to close out that magical decade. We always reminisce about those times.
Donny Darko .,.“Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.”
Lex you are such a synesthete! I totally get the Swedish Fish correlation.
This song was so huge! One of the best things about 80s music, we had so many popular genres, all with good music, and all at the same time! So much variety and quality, we didn't know it was an anomaly and wouldn't last
THE 80s song. Your brother is an Awesome addition and he nailed this song. This song, as most 80s songs were for younger people breaking away from the harder rock sounds. I was 19 when this song came out.
Valley Girl flashing through my mind!
Jane's Addiction "Jane Says"..A Must Hear..Truth!!
Just an awesome song .. great reaction as always!
Y'all make folks happy! We need that!
These guys did a Zoom jam together during the early days of Covid lock downs. They still sound good. You can find it on RUclips
Saw them in san diego at the 91x fest back in the day That was such a fun time!!!
in the middle / end of the song it slows down and the singer sings mm mmm mm , at that moment everybody would stop danceing : ) and lay on the floor until the drums would kick in and soon as the drums did kick in everybody would jump up and started dancing again
Lex so funny. Brad should know she does not know how her brain works, it just works. 😂😂🤣
New Wave... love it!