The "Just like heaven" appreciation thread

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  • anarchist_grunger
    anarchist_grunger Posts: 161
    satur9 wrote:
    I love "just like heaven," but my fav is "pictures of you"

    I love The Cure so much, definitively one of my fav bands ever.



    i'm a big lover of pictures of you also!
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

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  • twin2
    twin2 Posts: 894
    "Just Like Heaven" was my favorite song for years and definetly my favorite by the cure.
  • barcoach
    barcoach Posts: 413
    BUENA wrote:
    "One Hundred Years" from the album Pornography

    It doesn't matter if we all die
    Ambition in the back of a black car
    In a high building there is so much to do
    Going home time
    A story on the radio

    Something small falls out of your mouth
    And we laugh
    A prayer for something better
    A prayer
    For something better

    Please love me
    Meet my mother
    But the fear takes hold
    Creeping up the stairs in the dark
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow

    Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
    Fighting for freedom on television
    Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
    Have we got everything?
    She struggles to get away . . .

    The pain
    And the creeping feeling
    A little black haired girl
    Waiting for Saturday
    The death of her father pushing her
    Pushing her white face into the mirror
    Aching inside me
    And turn me round
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days

    Caressing an old man
    And painting a lifeless face
    Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
    The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
    All shadows and deliverance
    Under a black flag
    A hundred years of blood
    Crimson
    The ribbon tightens round my throat
    I open my mouth
    And my head bursts open
    A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
    Thrashing in the water
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other

    It feels like a hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    One hundred years


    This one is also awesome and impressive... just like the album it comes from...

    A few things come close to the pleasant shock that is hearing this tune live... a few groups come close to compete with the cure live. Just the weekend got me a boot of them playing an acoustic concert in Paris, beautiful!
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    I love this song too, but my favorite is From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea.

    The Cure's lyrics are poetry, even without the music. Amazing songwriting.
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  • barcoach
    barcoach Posts: 413
    meistereder wrote:
    I love this song too, but my favorite is From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea.

    The Cure's lyrics are poetry, even without the music. Amazing songwriting.

    That song acoustic... wow!!!
    It's not better than the electric live version, but certainly gains a new life.
    And yeah, Robert has many years being one of the strongest lyricists around.
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • reachdown12
    reachdown12 Posts: 693
    This thread is in dire need of a BUMP!

    I've been listening to Galore a lot over the last few weeks and just absolutely love this song.

    It's so gorgeous in those ways that can't be compared to any other. It's one all in its own. Really shows just how incredibly passionate Robert is about what he writes. Such a phenomenal lyricist, if not, gorgeous poet with the way it so intricately laces through out his writings.

    And to go more in depth the flow of the music in itself, wow! That loose vibe from the guitars into the drumming and that Bass?! Incredibly flawless.

    This song is perfection in every which way, and to those who have never heard it, pleeease make sure you get the opportunity to do so, and to those that have, give it another spin, it's so worthwhile. :D
    "Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,503
    just like heaven iiiiiiis the morst beautiful song that i eVr heard. as much as i wlove pearl jam its my favotie of all. you gwet swalllllllowed up by it. been there abnd done that. i habver beeen listenint to it evyrnite. rock pn porl and robert
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    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    The Dinosaur Jr. version of this song rocks so hard.

    Although the screaming grates on my nerves like no other. Fucking Lou Barlow.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,503
    eddie's Tone rocks wrote:
    just like heaven iiiiiiis the morst beautiful song that i eVr heard. as much as i wlove pearl jam its my favotie of all. you gwet swalllllllowed up by it. been there abnd done that. i habver beeen listenint to it evyrnite. rock pn porl and robert





    ..waaht the fuck was i thinking...~
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    This is the song that made me fall in love with the Cure. Up until that point I held out thinking I didn't want to get lumped in with all the goth types by saying I loved them. Couldn't resist after Just Like Heaven. That song will hold up forever. It is absolutely beautiful. Pictures of You and the Close to Me re-mix are probably my other favorites.

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