Hell with "Yesterday"! The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" ios the greatest popchoon evah!

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Don't argue. Just acknowledge and accept it.
McCartney can't match it. Michael Jackson can't match it. Ray Davies can't match it. Even Edwyn Collins can't match it. Hell...it even blows "Can't Get You Out of My Head" out of the water.

(in my best Terence Stamp as General Zod voice:)
Come...Kneel Before Bob!

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ummm...no. "Just Like Heaven" is even the Cure's greatest, much less the greatest ever.

― paul, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Should read: isn't even the Cure's greatest...

― paul, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I have to agree with Paul here. It's not even their best song, much less the best pop tune ever.

And what do you mean, "Michael Jackson can't match it"?! Michael Jackson had tons more great and timeless pop songs than The Cure ever did!

― geeta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

best pop tune, maybe not.

best popchune, definitely!

anyways the lyrics to this song are grate, esp the first verse which makes me want to fall in love or something

― Ron, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Lovecats', 'Close to Me' and 'Just Like Heaven' are clearly the (un)holy trinity of pop goodness! Unless it's 'Boys Don't Cry', 'Inbetween Days' and 'Lovesong'. Hmmm... can't they ALL win?

― Paz, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my favorite Cure songs has always been "Push". Maybe because it's one of the first songs I tried to learn to play on the guitar. And it's less pop-py than those mentioned above, but I think it's by far the best mid-period Cure song.

I do think that the best pure pop song from the Cure was "Boys Don't Cry," though.

― paul, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For some reason, I really like Letter to Elise, and that's about it.

― Ally, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It might be my favourite Cure tune, but I'm not that big a fan and I like Dinosaur Jr's cover better anyway, and it's not remotely near being the greatest ever.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Welcome to the 80's!

― Marc, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever happened to "Ironic"?!?

― Leee, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not that great and besides, "Teenage Kicks" is the greatest ever.

― Sean, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catatatatatatatatatatata Caterpillar girl

― Flowersdie, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

Robert Smith says this song is based on the Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet."

― Cunga, Monday, 21 December 2009 06:05 (fifteen years ago)

popchoon

― happy christmas your ass (electricsound), Monday, 21 December 2009 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

It's the best of that mid-eighties guitar style where a droning two-string riff shifts under cryptic, romantic lyrics. Other great examples- R.E.M.'s "Seven Chinese Bros." Sonic Youth's "Starpower." Replacements "Within Your Reach". I know there's others. What are they? Game Theory, surely.

― bendy, Monday, 21 December 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.thundersquee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tyrone-479x360.jpg

― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Monday, 21 December 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago)

The soundcheck version of "Another Girl, Another Planet" was a Cure boot mainstay back in the day. I think I have it at four or five different tape speeds.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 21 December 2009 13:12 (fifteen years ago)

I always just thought of it as yet another version of the riff that powers Ex-Lion Tamer and Here Comes Your Man and about a thousand other songs..

― dlp9001, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

A good version, of course...

― dlp9001, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

hi dere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8VHEjVyVo

― livinginthesunlightlovinginthemoonlighthavingawonderfultime (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago)

but it's true that no one played up that particular post-punk style of legato guitar melodies like Bobby Smith

― livinginthesunlightlovinginthemoonlighthavingawonderfultime (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

he is still doing it iirc

― livinginthesunlightlovinginthemoonlighthavingawonderfultime (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

<forehead smack>She Sells Sanctuary</forehead smack>

― bendy, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago)

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