Just Like Heaven (The Cure song)

"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.

"Just Like Heaven"
Single by the Cure
from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"
B-side
  • "Snow in Summer"
  • "Sugar Girl"
  • "Breathe"
  • "A Chain of Flowers"
Released5 October 1987[1]
RecordedStudio Miraval, France, 1987
Genre
Length3:32
LabelFiction
Songwriter(s)Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Lol Tolhurst
Producer(s)David M. Allen, Robert Smith
The Cure singles chronology
""Catch"
(1987)
Just Like Heaven ""Hot Hot Hot!!!"
(1988)
"Just Like Heaven" at YouTube

Track listing

7" – Fiction / Fics 27 (UK)[4]
  1. "Just Like Heaven" [edited remix] (3:17)
  2. "Snow in Summer" (3:26)
7" – Polydor / 887-104-7 (FR)
  1. "Just Like Heaven" [Remix] (3:17)
  2. "Snow in Summer" (3:26)
7" – Elektra / 7 69443 (U.S.)
  1. "Just Like Heaven" [edited remix] (3:17)
  2. "Breathe" (4:47)
7" – Polydor / 887 104-7 (FR)
  1. "Just Like Heaven" (3:17)
  2. "Breathe" (4:47)

12" – Fiction / Ficsx 27 (UK)
  1. "Just Like Heaven" [remix] (3:29)
  2. "Snow in Summer" (3:26)
  3. "Sugar Girl" (3:14)
  • also released on CD Fixcd 27
12" – Elektra / 0 66793 (U.S.)
  1. "Just Like Heaven" [remix] (3:29)
  2. "Breathe" (4:47)
  3. "A Chain of Flowers" (4:55)

References

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