Just Like Heaven (The Cure song)

"Just Like Heaven"
"Just Like Heaven"
Single by the Cure
from the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
B-side	"Snow in Summer"; "Sugar Girl"; "Breathe"; "A Chain of Flowers";
Released	5 October 1987
Recorded	Studio Miraval, France, 1987
Genre	Gothic rock; post-punk; pop;
Length	3:32
Label	Fiction
Songwriter(s)	Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Lol Tolhurst
Producer(s)	David M. Allen, Robert Smith
The Cure singles chronology
Audio
	"Just Like Heaven" on YouTube

"Just Like Heaven" is a 1987 song by the English gothic rock band The Cure and is the third single from their seventh studio album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. It went to the top 40 in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Ireland and France. It did not chart in Canada and went on to be covered by Dinosaur Jr. and Katie Melua.

Track listing

7" – Fiction / Fics 27 (UK)^[4]

"Just Like Heaven" [edited remix] (3:17)
"Snow in Summer" (3:26)

7" – Polydor / 887-104-7 (FR)

"Just Like Heaven" [Remix] (3:17)
"Snow in Summer" (3:26)

7" – Elektra / 7 69443 (U.S.)

"Just Like Heaven" [edited remix] (3:17)
"Breathe" (4:47)

7" – Polydor / 887 104-7 (FR)

"Just Like Heaven" (3:17)
"Breathe" (4:47)

12" – Fiction / Ficsx 27 (UK)

"Just Like Heaven" [remix] (3:29)
"Snow in Summer" (3:26)
"Sugar Girl" (3:14)

also released on CD Fixcd 27

12" – Elektra / 0 66793 (U.S.)

"Just Like Heaven" [remix] (3:29)
"Breathe" (4:47)
"A Chain of Flowers" (4:55)

References

↑ "Index". Record Mirror. 3 October 1987. p. 2. ISSN 0144-5804.
↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cure – Galore: The Singles 1987–1997". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork. 24 August 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
↑ "The Cure — Just Like Heaven (song)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 April 2007.

[1] "Index". Record Mirror. 3 October 1987. p. 2. ISSN 0144-5804.

[2] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cure – Galore: The Singles 1987–1997". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

[pitchfork-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork. 24 August 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

[HM-4] "The Cure — Just Like Heaven (song)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 April 2007.

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The Cure
Robert Smith Simon Gallup Roger O'Donnell Jason Cooper Reeves Gabrels Andy Anderson Perry Bamonte Michael Dempsey Matthieu Hartley Pearl Thompson Phil Thornalley Lol Tolhurst Boris Williams
Studio albums	Three Imaginary Boys Seventeen Seconds Faith Pornography The Top The Head on the Door Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Disintegration Wish Wild Mood Swings Bloodflowers The Cure 4:13 Dream Songs of a Lost World
Live albums	Concert: The Cure Live Entreat Show Paris Bestival Live 2011
Compilations	Boys Don't Cry Japanese Whispers Standing on a Beach Galore Greatest Hits Join the Dots
Remix albums	Mixed Up Torn Down
Extended plays	The Peel Sessions Festival 2005 Hypnagogic States EP
Singles	"Killing an Arab" "Boys Don't Cry" "Jumping Someone Else's Train" "A Forest" "Primary" "Charlotte Sometimes" "The Hanging Garden" "Let's Go to Bed" "The Walk" "The Love Cats" "The Caterpillar" "In Between Days" "Close to Me" "Why Can't I Be You?" "Catch" "Just Like Heaven" "Hot Hot Hot!!!" "Lullaby" "Fascination Street" "Lovesong" "Pictures of You" "Never Enough" "High" "Friday I'm in Love" "A Letter to Elise" "The 13th" "Mint Car" "Strange Attraction" "Gone!" "Wrong Number" "Cut Here" "The End of the World" "The Only One" "Freakshow" "Sleep When I'm Dead" "The Perfect Boy"
Other songs	"10:15 Saturday Night"
Video albums	The Cure in Orange Trilogy Festival 2005
Tours	The Cure: 'Reflections'
Related articles	Discography Band members "I'm a Cult Hero" Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure Babacar COGASM Fools Dance The Glove Levinhurst The Magazine Spies Presence Shelleyan Orphan Siouxsie and the Banshees Nocturne Hyæna
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Dinosaur Jr.
J Mascis Lou Barlow Murph Mike Johnson George Berz
Studio albums	Dinosaur (1985) You're Living All Over Me (1987) Bug (1988) Green Mind (1991) Where You Been (1993) Without a Sound (1994) Hand It Over (1997) Beyond (2007) Farm (2009) I Bet on Sky (2012) Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not (2016) Sweep It Into Space (2021)
Compilations	Fossils (1991) Whatever's Cool with Me (1991)
Singles	"Freak Scene" "Just Like Heaven" "The Wagon" "Whatever's Cool with Me" "Start Choppin" "Out There" "Feel the Pain"
Related	Discography Deep Wound Sebadoh J Mascis + The Fog Witch The Folk Implosion Rollercoaster Tour

Katie Melua
Studio albums	Call Off the Search Piece by Piece Pictures The House Secret Symphony Ketevan In Winter Album No. 8 Love & Money
Compilation albums	The Katie Melua Collection
Live albums	Live at the O² Arena
Singles	"The Closest Thing to Crazy" "Call Off the Search" "Crawling up a Hill" "Nine Million Bicycles" "I Cried for You"/"Just Like Heaven" "Spider's Web" "It's Only Pain" "Shy Boy" "If You Were a Sailboat" "Mary Pickford" "If the Lights Go Out" "Toy Collection" "Two Bare Feet" "The Flood" "A Happy Place" "To Kill You with a Kiss" "Better Than a Dream" "Fields of Gold"
Other singles	"What a Wonderful World" (with Eva Cassidy)
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