One minute, we're playing dark clubs and sort of art concerts, and the next, we're signing autographs at record stores and doing big radio interviews. In America, we were mainstream, which we didn't expect at all. In England, we're much more underground, independent, still very kind of left-field. “It's a kind of a bit of a different culture thing in England,” Grey explains.
Counter-clockwise from left: guitarist Gary McDowell, singer Robbie Grey, keyboard player Stepehn Walker, drummer Richard Brown, bassist Michael Conroy. But thanks to the Valley Girl placement and heavy airplay on early MTV for “I Melt With You’s” charmingly lo-fi video (the entire shoot cost $1,000, and that not-so-special-effect flame closeup was created with a Bunsen burner), Modern English became unlikely Stateside pop stars.
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Grey says the song, from Modern English breakthrough sophomore album After the Snow, “confused” British fans who “didn't know how to take it” surprisingly, the album didn’t garner many positive reviews and or sell well in the U.K. It even played during the post-prom end credits of one of the era’s most beloved teen rom-coms, Valley Girl.
But the track was so deceptively upbeat and romantic that its nuclear message went over most listeners’ heads - so much so that it became an unexpected prom song of the 1980s. The doomsday lyrics, which Grey says were written in three minutes (“When you can do that, you know pretty much that you're onto something good”), weren’t necessarily a departure for the moody, post-punk Essex band.
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