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The Cure originally released Just Like Heaven written by Boris Williams, Simon Gallup [GB1], Robert Smith [GB], Porl Thompson and Lol Tolhurst and The Cure released it on the album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me in 1987. It was also covered by Polagirl, Pandit, Goh Nakamura, John Raymond Pollard and other artists.
Five Good Covers: Just Like Heaven (The Cure) Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song. In the mid-’80s, a besotted Robert Smith decided to write a song about a trip he took to the seashore with his girlfriend.
- Dinosaur Jr. – 1989
- Katie Melua – 2005
- The Watson Twins – 2008
- Beatsteaks – 2002
- Tristen – 2021
Just two years after The Cure’s original, Massachusetts-based group Dinosaur Jr. released their heavier noise-rock rendition. The original is given new life with heavy, overdriven guitar, a higher tempo and J. Masicis’ vocals, which range from nonchalance to intense exclamation. The cover was released on the Dinosaur’s third studio album, Bug, whic...
Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua made her recording debut in 2003, aged just 19 and within three years, she was the UK’s best-selling female artist. Her sound flits between various genres, including folk, jazz and blues, but is held constant by her powerful vocals. Melua’s stunning rendition of The Cure’s 1987 hit was released on her ...
Alt-country duo The Watson Twins were raised in Louisville, Kentucky. During their student years at Los Angeles’ University of Eastville, they brought the sound of the mid-west to the West Coast, initially as part of a band called Slydell. Over the past two decades, the sisters have achieved moderate success as a pair and in various collaborations,...
German punk/metal group Beatsteaks rose to prominence in 1996 after winning a local music competition at the SO36 club and subsequently opened for the Sex Pistols at a reunion concert in Berlin. In 2002, their third studio album, Living Targets, was accompanied by the Die Wohnzimmer EP, which comprised covers of the likes of Steve Miller, Cheap Tri...
While this mononymous Nashville-based singer-songwriter has yet to break through as an international chart-scaling sensation, her prolific material of the past two decades has never ceased to bring a unique, endearing edge to a pop sound. In 2019, Tristen released a popular cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You’. At the beginning of 2021, she sho...
"Just Like Heaven" was the third single released from their 1987 album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. The song became the Cure's first American hit and reached number 40 on the Billboard charts in 1988. It has been praised by critics and covered by artists such as Dinosaur Jr. and Katie Melua .
Dinosaur Jr: Just Like Heaven. The quintessential Cure cover. Released the same year as the original, slacker rock gods Dinosaur Jr pile layers of fuzz upon untold levels of distortion and come up with something wonderfully unique.
Bands like The Cure and Depeche Mode write really good songs but I'm not that into the style they play it in, so when someone covers it in a style I like more I absolutely fall in love with the songs.
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See all of “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure’s covers.
