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The more commonly known version of the song is the 3:50 single mix, in which the synthesizer riff is audible during the first chorus, an octave lower than on subsequent choruses, along with contrasting background vocals in the second verse - 'You should know better' sung before 'Dream of better lives.,' etc. 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. An other similarly-titled song, 7 Hours, was recorded in 2011/2013.' I Melt with You' is a song by the British new wave band Modern English. The song was regitered as 7 Hours (I Wanna Melt With U).The song has a call back to La, La, La, He, He, Hee after Prince sings “Just like a dog” and then sings ‘ohw-ohw-oh-hoo’ in the same way as in the chorus to La, La, La, He, He, Hee.See 2 Whom It May Concern for more details More explicit version played on Playboy’s Hot Rocks See Wanna Melt With U video for more detailsġ7 December 1992, Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA see The Ryde Dyvine for details See Wanna Melt With U video for more details

It initially replaced one segue on a late-Summer, 1992, configuration of the album, but to make the album fit on a single CD for release, several of the album’s segues were later removed, eliminating some of the story elements of the album. 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).

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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).

Prince (credited to Prince and the New Power Generation)

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