“Just Like Heaven” is a song by British alternative rock band the Cure. The song was released as the third single from the group’s 1987 album Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me. In the UK, it stayed on the charts for five weeks during October and November 1987. In America, it was the Cure’s first top 40 hit when it reached No. 40 on The Billboard Hot 100 for one week in January 1988.
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“Just Like Heaven” is a song by British alternative rock band the Cure. The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. 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. Robert Smith has said he considers the song to be one of the band’s strongest songs. It was used as the theme song for the French TV show Les Enfants du Rock before the song was released. The single was released as the third single from the group’s 1987 album Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me. In the UK, it stayed on the charts for five weeks during October and November 1987, peaking at number 29. In America, it was the Cure’s first top 40 hit when it reached No. 40 on The Billboard Hot 100 for one week in January 1988. The song is written in the key of A major and consists of an A–E–Bm–D chord progression which repeats throughout the song, except during the chorus when the band plays an F♯m–G–D progression.
The central hook is formed from a descending guitar riff which appears between song verses and in parts of the bridge and the last verse. According to Smith, the song is about hyperventilating—kissing and fainting to the floor. The lyrics were inspired by a trip with his then-girlfriend Mary Poole to Beachy Head in southern England. Smith said the opening line of refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but added “on another, it’s about a seduction trick, from much later in my life’”. The song has been described as “a colourful, fluttery, fussy thing’ and “unimpeachable’” by Melody Maker writer David Stubbs, who added that it “turns my face green, as if having consumed too many truffles”.
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