{"id":500,"date":"2012-02-13T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:54:34","slug":"the-wild-flowers-melt-like-ice-things-have-changed-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-wild-flowers-melt-like-ice-things-have-changed-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Flowers- Melt Like Ice & Things Have Changed 7”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Jeffo for ripping these early singles from The Wild Flowers. If you aren’t already familiar with this UK based post-punk band (most famous, perhaps, thanks to Mighty Lemon Drops guitarist Dave Newton’s involvement), grab their first LP over at Phoenix Hairpins<\/a>. I listen to that LP at least once a week, and I’m not one to get too repetitious with my listening habits, so that’s saying something…<\/p>\n

The version of “Melt Like Ice” was released in 1983, and is rather different than the version we’ve all come to know and love. I can’t rank one over the other, but folks seem to prefer the 7” version. The second A-side is the same as the LP version, so you won’t find it zipped up here. However, both B-sides, two excellent slices of post-punk bliss, are contained within. Dig it:<\/p>\n

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The Wild Flowers- Melt Like Ice<\/i> 7” (1983)
\n1. Melt Like Ice
\n2. The Chosen Proof<\/p>\n

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The Wild Flowers- Things Have Changed (Which Should Have Stayed The Same)<\/i> 7” (1984)
\n1. Things Have Changed (Which Should Have Stayed The Same)<\/s>
\n2. Second Thought<\/p>\n

*download both here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Jeffo for ripping these early singles from The Wild Flowers. If you aren’t already familiar with this UK based post-punk band (most famous, perhaps, thanks to Mighty Lemon Drops guitarist Dave Newton’s involvement), grab their first LP over at Phoenix Hairpins. I listen to that LP at least once a week, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,62,37,670,707,19,708,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-62","category-37","category-indie","category-mighty-lemon-drops","category-post-punk","category-the-wild-flowers","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}