Modern English - After The Snow (1982)

Dedicado a mi hermano,sin rencores.

Hay veces que uno no se entera de nada.Descubres un grupo por casualidad y luego resulta que uno de sus discos contiene uno de los singles más vendidos de los 80.Todo gracias a un anuncio de Burger King.

Ahora podemos comenzar el debate de cuántos anuncios han destrozado la credibilidad ,para cierto sector del público, de unas cuantas bandas.

Se me ocurren: Dandy Warhols, Moby (Bueno, este tío era ya bastante sinvergüenza),The Clash,Peter Björn and John...
La cara que se te queda cuando tu grupo preferido es el politono de la choni de tu vecina del primero es de abrigo.

Ya sé que algunos anuncios tienen que llevar música.Y propongo una idea:¿Por qué no poner música de grupos un poco más odiosos y ya comerciales de por sí?.
Se me ocurren: Muse,Tokio Hotel,Jonas Brothers...

Lo importante de este disco es que aparte del tema en cuestión ,"I Melt with You" hay una pila de temazos indiscutibles,como "Life In The Gladhouse","The Choicest View" o "Tables Turning" y que pese a que han pasado casi 30 años,suena como si hubiese sido grabado hace nada.

Allmusic,dice: ""I'll Melt With You" will forever be the one specific moment that's Modern English's place in pop history, but the album it came from, After the Snow, isn't anything to sneeze at. Indeed, in transforming from the quite fine but dour young miserabilists on Mesh & Lace to a brighter incarnation who still had a melancholy side, the quintet found exactly the right combination best-suited for their abilities. Like contemporaries B-Movie and the Sound, Modern English used punk and post-punk roots as a chance to introduce a haunting, beautiful take on romance and emotion, while the contributions of Stephen Walker on keyboard helped make the album both of its time and timeless. That said, the secret weapon on the album is the rhythm section of Michael Conroy and Richard Brown, able to shift from the polite but relentless tribal beat clatter on the excellent "Life in the Gladhouse" to the ever more intense punch of the title track, the album's unheralded masterpiece. None of this is to denigrate the contributions of singer Robbie Grey and guitarist Gary McDowell. The former's seemingly mannered singing actually shows a remarkable fluidity at points -- "After the Snow" again is a good reference point, as is the fraught, slow-burn epic "Dawn Chorus" -- while McDowell works around the band's various arrangements instead of trying to dominate them. Some songs, like "Face of Wood," even find Modern English -- often dogged with Joy Division comparisons early on -- predicting where New Order would go before that band got there itself. Still, "I Melt With You" is the main reason most will want to investigate further. A perfect pop moment that didn't have to strain for it, its balance of giddy sentiment and heartfelt passion matched with a rush of acoustic and electric guitar overdubs just can't be beat." by Ned Ragget