Melt!

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"Melt!"
"Melt!" cover
Single by Siouxsie & the Banshees
from the album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
B-side(s) "Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant", "A Sleeping Rain"
Released November 26, 1982
Format 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1982
Genre Gothic rock
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Siouxsie & the Banshees
Producer(s) Siouxsie & the Banshees
Chart positions
  • #49 (UK)
Siouxsie & the Banshees singles chronology
"Slowdive"
(1982)
"Melt!"
(1982)
"Dear Prudence"
(1983)

"Melt!" is a song written, produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees in 1982. It was released as the second and final single from the band's fifth album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse.

The album (and this single) was representative of Siouxsie & the Banshees more elaborate and experimental musical direction at the time. The gothic rock overtones of the song were accentuated by a lush string section. The sensual lyrics of "Melt!" compare an intense sexual interlude with a lover to dying. Its lyrics can also allude to a S&M encounter ("...Handcuffed in lace and blood and sperm / Swimming in poison / Gasping in the fragrance / Sweat carves a screenplay / of discipline and devotion...").

Released in late 1982, "Melt!" peaked at number forty-nine in the UK singles chart.

Siouxsie & the Banshees
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Siouxsie & the Banshees discography
Studio albums and extended plays: The Scream | Join Hands | Kaleidoscope | Juju | A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | Hyæna | The Thorn EP | Tinderbox | Through the Looking Glass | Peepshow | Superstition | The Rapture
Compilations: Once Upon a Time: The Singles | Twice Upon a Time: The Singles | The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees | Downside Up
Live Albums: Nocturne | Seven Year Itch
Peel Sessions: Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions
Singles: Hong Kong Garden | The Staircase (Mystery) | Playground Twist | Mittageisen / Love in a Void | Happy House | Christine | Israel | Spellbound | Arabian Knights | Fireworks | Slowdive | Melt! | Dear Prudence | Swimming Horses | Dazzle | Overground | Cities in Dust | Candyman | This Wheel's on Fire | The Passenger | Song from the Edge of the World | Peek-a-Boo | The Killing Jar | The Last Beat of My Heart | Kiss Them for Me | Shadowtime | Fear (of the Unknown) | Face to Face | O Baby | Stargazer
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