The track features a unique array of instruments: a piano, a xylophone and a plethora of cool percussion (check out the setup of noise-makers behind Alanah Currie: cymbals, bells, rattles and tomtookas!).
The final chorus drives it home with some really nice vocal harmonies.
"Hold Me Now" is also the first of six from the epic The Wedding Singer soundtrack to appear on this chart.
The Thompson Twins were no stranger to movie soundtracks. Soon after "Hold Me Now" hit the charts in North America, the ballad "If You Were Here" from Sixteen Candles solidified their standing as household names in the mid-80s.
Were The Thompson Twins named after the Twin detectives of TinTin fame? A "plethora"? is that some sort of wind instrument. In any case song is good.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson. Plethora is alternate name for the thingamajig kazoo played by Alanah Currie.
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