Songs that Changed Music: Just Like Heaven - The Cure

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But in 1987, the band’s indie sound collided with a pop aesthetic that captured audiences and reminded the world that popular music could still be art. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (the band’s seventh studio album) gave the band their first top 40 album on the Billboard 200. In Barry Walsh’s review for Slant magazine, he compared the ambitious double-sided album to another eclectic and lengthy pop endeavor - the Beatles’ “White Album” - and concluded. “Cure gives the listener the kind of roller-coaster rush that only great pop can provide-they take you all the way through the amusement park, plying you with the sweetest cotton candy, until you wind up giddy and disoriented in the hall of mirrors.” Within this thrilling journey, the third single to be released from the album, “Just Like Heaven” gave the band their first top 40 single and first real American hit.
While “Just Like Heaven” was their biggest single of their career in the mid-eighties, it was not Smith’s first foray into writing a catchy pop song. His 1983 UK hit “The Lovecats” hit number seven in the UK but Smith disparaged the track saying “‘The Lovecats’ is far from being my favourite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. It was a joke." However, with “Just Like Heaven,” Smith says “I knew as soon as I’d written it that it was a good pop song.” In fact, in 2003 he reflected even more positively upon the track calling it, “the best pop song The Cure has ever done... all the sounds meshed, it was one take, and it was perfect.”
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[@Producelikeapro]

What are some of the songs you feel changed music?

[@hotworkmusic]

Gucci Gang

[@OneEyedOracle]

She sells sanctuary by the CUlt and Really Small Town by one eyed oracle, who else? ;)

[@blakecurtis7809]

How much time you got heh heh heh.

[@dmkonopka]

head like a hole!! Do that one!!

[@Emergentministry]

Definitely smells like teen spirit. It is not really a metal song but it changed rock and metal both.

[@j.sherwoodowl4826]

"I'll never write anything as good as this again" _writes the album Disintegration_

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha exactly! A master songwriter

[@Aaron-zh4kj]

Disintegration is awesome, because it doesn't feel broken up at all. The whole album feels like one song, or maybe a symphony with multiple movements. Great stuff for a long car ride. And I'll never shut up about the underrated "Bloodflowers". I love that album. Don't care what anyone says.

[@counterweight320]

@@Aaron-zh4kj true

[@guillermodellatorre8529]

In my opinion, one of the best albums ever

[@awakeintulsa]

@@Aaron-zh4kj "a symphony with multiple movements" - perfect description Also, I agree that Bloodflowers is sooooo underrated. I love that album.

[@kaycordingly2437]

"If someone knows only one song by The Cure, it's probably Just Like Heaven". Lol I wish! U.S. Radio stations seem to think that Friday I'm In Love is the ONLY song The Cure has ever written.

[@AthenaOnyx]

I thought the same thing. Either that or Love Song.

[@Bob_Saccamano]

That's because it's the only song anyone cares about. The Cure is overrated, at best, and no one really wants to hear them except for this odd group of a few people that think this band is amazing.

[@kaycordingly2437]

@@Bob_Saccamano wow you really didn't understand my comment at all, did you? Just needed an excuse to talk shit about an exceptional band then, huh?

[@irishjoe2941]

True

[@mightyV444]

Same here in NZ also x-))

[@billium99]

One last thing that makes this song unique in pop canon: very, very few pop songs don't repeat the title ad nauseum. This little gem contains the title one time, as the very last line of the song in the final refrain. Brilliant!

[@sab-ali]

Although I want him repeat that whenever I hear it. But that's the beauty of it.

[@jackjude]

It's not uncommon in album tracks. But execs like the song title of singles to be culled from the chorus, or refrain eg: "show me" or "run away with you" - and will often press for songs to be retitled as such. Easy to find or remember what's it's called. Of course we now have Shazam.

[@jennyjohn704]

Few New Order songs even contain the title and there are many others either don't contain the title in the lyrics or only state it once or twice. So this is very far from unique. Don't believe the hype.

[@billium99]

@@jennyjohn704 Hmm - I mean there are other exceptions. Maybe unique was the wrong word, as a binary. But it's rare. =)

[@et4751]

Yepp, been listening to Show Me for last 30 odd years now find it's something else 😂

[@priscilarodriguez7157]

Who else hearts drops whenever the keyboard starts in this song....

[@Producelikeapro]

Absolutely love that opening keys line!

[@masontiger]

Every single time 😉

[@mrduuud]

mine drops in the the first 3 secs of drums and bass. I love how it appears to trip over itself in the opening seconds.

[@JohnnyLREACTS]

When the keyboard hits I get transported to a different time and place. When the guitar layers overtop I know I'm in music heaven. Thank you The Cure for giving us this timeless music!!

[@MrGomjabber]

Yep, I am back in Germany, young, when this song came out.

[@CHlEFFIN]

I recently discovered The Cure through the song “Boys Don’t Cry”, then I heard “Lovesong” & “Just Like Heaven”… my god what amazing songs.

[@jf1573]

Next up: In Between Days, Friday I‘m In Love, and Pictures Of You, and possibly Letter To Elise … then you‘re hooked.

[@kevtb874]

Disintegration (entire album is a masterpiece) A Forest (the extended album version. The best Cure songs are those with 2 minute intros. Plainsong is another. In fact most of Disintegration applies). From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (played as loud as you can)

[@kevtb874]

Just be aware The Cure have two modes. Great pop friendly radio hits (which you listed) and the moodiest most epic soundscapes.

[@alienvomitsex]

​@@kevtb874 Depeche Mode is the same way. Listen to 'Enjoy the Silence' followed by 'Photographic' or 'Black Celebration' or 'Christmas Island'. The variety is stunning

[@carlostejada1479]

You'd been sleeping for a while... Next song you need is _Killing an Arab_ a unique song by The Cure.

[@muttomatic]

The early “goth” bands wrote some of the greatest pop songs of all time.

[@loff66]

As people of a certain age will tell you, most of those bands had out about 4 albums before the 'Goth' thing was even invented...the Cure included

[@muttomatic]

loff66 agreed!

[@Mikael11Fior]

Ironically, most pioneers of goth didn't like to label themselves as goth, Robert Smith despised it, even Rozz Williams, the lead singer of Christian Death

[@muttomatic]

Patricio Luna that’s why goth was in quotation.

The cure has nothing to do with that goth bullshit

[@roelfkromhout]

"I'll never write something this good again." Opens their next album with 'Plainsong.'

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, Robert Smith is an amazing songwriter!

[@samuelhutchison8433]

yes in my top 5

[@brettmarlar4154]

As much as I adore this song, in my opinion their following album "Disintegration" is as if they made an entire album of "Just Like Heavens". It is a flawless album. Of course the vibe is a complete 180° from "Just Like Heaven" as it is a purely blissful melancholy vibe from beginning to end that makes it the perfect rainy day album.

[@yngwievanwinger1432]

Robert was listening to a lot of The Cocteau Twins at the time, I remember reading an interview where he admitted as much. I saw The Cure on that tour. They opened the set with Plainsong if I remember correctly.

[@kitrichardson2165]

They have so many great songs, but those are two spectacular albums. Two of the best from the entire 80s.

[@HeroinChrist]

Not an unpopular opinion at all, and one I share.

[@shadowfreak71972]

I actually had to wipe a couple tears away when Trent Reznor inducted them to the Hall of Fame. That was super-emotional for me! This is the one song I can sort of play on guitar (I play keyboard and drums).

[@Producelikeapro]

I remember that as well. Great moment

[@MissPsychocandy1973]

Oh my. Oh. My. Robert's isolated vocal 💘. He's the most underrated guitarist on the planet. Fan since 1984...I had Just Like Heaven at my wedding in 2002...

[@Producelikeapro]

Wonderful! Yes, a beautiful song he wrote for his wife!

[@thayannysiqueira5636]

I had for my wedding too. It’s a great choice!

[@JohnnyLREACTS]

Excellent choice!

[@09meangirl]

I'm renewing my wedding vows on the beach this year and this is Our song and will have a HUGE part in our ceremony ❤❤❤

[@herchelleonwood7463]

this is truly one of the best songs ever written.

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed 100%!

[@Madfattdeeb]

Agreed ❤

[@martinschulz9381]

As an American I loved the British music of the 80s; The Cure was British music at its very best.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@Zavonofcats]

I was 13 the first time I heard this song and I remember breaking down in the tears because it was so beautiful and sad. I immediately opened up the cassette cover and read the lyrics until I memorize them.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing

[@Producelikeapro]

I love this song!

[@johndrummer59]

I love playing the groove of “Pictures of You”...

[@Mx.Pickle]

Me too! I don't know why but it makes me want to lay in a field of flowers

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, so amazing John!

[@Producelikeapro]

@@Mx.Pickle haha nice

[@neilyringworm]

Beautiful song

[@oliviadoughty1421]

It's great simple bassline ....the drums sound amazing on this recording, but when do they not?

[@BrianShelfPartTwo]

Great analysis. And yes, Robert Smith is one of the most incredible pop song writers hiding in plain sight. I would perhaps argue though the one Cure song everyone knows would be Friday I'm In Love. It's on every radio station's playlist in the UK.

[@estefaniaboujon6830]

Ir boys dont cry

[@danc3693]

I’m 61 and basically discovered The Cure only a few weeks ago - ashamed to admit that really but at their peak I wasn’t their target audience; although I knew Friday I’m In Love. I’m truly thrilled to discover their music. Robert Smith is just a month younger than me 😁

[@mightyV444]

@@danc3693 - "Yay!" for you, Dan! :-)

[@mightyV444]

@Brian Shelf - Same here in NZ also!

[@commontimeproductions]

Ok, I really love that Warren's hair is looking more like Robert Smith's hair. His daughter's drawing in the back totally confirms lol

[@Producelikeapro]

Now you get where my hair style comes from!! Haha

[@MuckingMunt]

I dunno.. Im seeing more Chris Barrie (aka. Red Dwarf's Rimmer) with a bit of a 80s new wave 'do

[@Producelikeapro]

@@MuckingMunt haha I don’t have a side parting like Rimmer!

[@briancarr4607]

Or is it ?

[@lightonstillwaters6789]

This song makes you feel like Spring has come even in mid-Winter. No matter how tired, weary, sad, angry or numb I am, I am restored and reinvigorated when I listen to this magnificent magical song, and reminded of deeper truths that cannot be fully expressed with words. (Almost Spring 2021)

[@gregorytoddsmith9744]

I've always been a metal fan. I can't help myself. The haunting vocals along with the unmistakable talent of the band held my ear...and still do.

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed 100%!

[@user-eb8mi3xi5f]

We can love Maiden and Cure at the same time..

[@red92diaz]

I was lucky enough to see all four of my favorite 80s artists within a year (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Morrissey, New Order). Of all 4 of them, I was most amazed by Robert Smith. His voice has not aged one bit!!! He still sounds like the recordings. It was an amazing year 🥲

[@billyoung8118]

Just Like Heaven: "I'll never write anything as good as this again" Pictures of You: "Hold my beer"

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha Robert Smith is such an amazing writer! Thanks ever so much

[@chucku00]

Burn : "Am I a joke to you?"

[@bevanthomas936]

Lullaby's lyrics: "Hold my beer"...

[@jaybadhorse5096]

One of my other 17 favorite Cure songs

[@2isceez]

let’s just agree with the entirety of disintegration

[@Nesta98]

You're just like the dream - the way he sang this part nothing can be more innocent.

[@Producelikeapro]

Beautiful vocal! Thanks ever so much!

[@Nesta98]

@@Producelikeapro thank you so much for replying 🤓

[@Producelikeapro]

@@Nesta98 you’re welcome

[@mokrulgobline9403]

This song most powerfully and beautifully reminds me of being in love, being simply carefree and innocent, and that the world seemed innocent and friendly in that one moment of my youth. It made me cry to remember the simple joy that I felt in my heart back when I was innocent and free of worldly cares. This is truly the magic of life to immerse yourself into this one moment of only 3 1/2 minutes, and to remember the joy of being in love, without any other cares, to be happy and to simply be human.

[@tonymain8801]

This is the only song that makes me tear up - every bloody time! I so adore this song, it is pop perfection and beautifully sentimental without being soft - strange as angels

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much! Yes, it’s a beautiful song written about his wife!!

[@fedeanna8708]

This one and Pictures Of You for me

[@Timinator62]

The best thing about the Cure was they never really sounded the same musically from Album to Album, Robert's voice was the only way to identify them back in the early 80's. I was blown away by Robert's Guitar playing on "Jumping some else's train" in '79 and "I'm Cold"....and then that voice kicked in.... and then I started paying attention to his lyrics....that guy could write songs...c'mon... "the innocence of sleeping children dressed in white and slowing dreaming, stops all time"... for a bunch of kids with no real future before them...these guys sure did make their mark on Music and Fashion . Read Lol Tolhurst's book if you're a Cure fan. I actually downloaded the Audible version and Lol read's his book to you...even cooler.

[@bobdobalina838]

Wow, didn't know he had a book out, thanks for the tip. . . .Lol.

[@mightyV444]

Yes, Smith himself once said that it's his voice that makes a song a Cure song, first and foremost.

[@leoscoo6135]

Pearl Thompson plays the guitar on I'm cold

[@Timinator62]

@@leoscoo6135 According to the Cure Pearl's first Song he recorded with the Cure was playing the Saxophone in "Give me it" off the Top Album.

[@leoscoo6135]

@@Timinator62 I mean the I’m Cold demo, Pearl Thompson was part of the Easy Cure lineup

[@jokerswildio]

The song gives me goosebumps still as it soothed me during a painfully lonely adolescence...it truly was and will forever be a taste of what something "just like heaven" is like.

[@navitzki]

I truly believe that part of why the song feels like it can go on forever is because of the structure of the song and how it doesn't have a chorus. Leaving us with the "always wanting more feeling" even when the song's already done. Having it on repeat is just a personal preference.

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, masterpiece! Thanks for sharing

[@liamfitzgerald7528]

All the girls I thought were cool in my school listened to The Cure so I decided to give them a listen. I was so surprised by Robert Smith's hooks and melodies. Great stuff. In my head I had imagined this dark and unapproachable sound similar to the other bands who were popular with the kid's that hung around the smoking section at my high school. I was completely wrong. These were beautifully tailored, pop sensible, masterpieces. Songs like Just Like Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, and Close To Me still play in my head and on my audio devices. Ha! I still remember hiding the fact that I liked "Love Song" from my male friends.

[@MrDeeyal]

I love this song, but my favourite has to be Lullaby. Man that song is dark!

[@meadish]

Yep, Lullaby is a true masterpiece, what an atmosphere it builds.

[@basb6230]

And "a forest". Cachiest bassline ever.

[@maneshezra7182]

Yes! So dark and I love it

[@Producelikeapro]

I love Lullaby! Amazing song Pete

[@jankoegl]

Agreed! 👌🏼 Plus, of all the great songs in their catalogue, Robert never sounded more invested and more different than on that one. And that’s fucking saying something!

[@2degucitas]

The late 70's introduced these fresh new talents we got to watch "grow up" over time. Entire genres of music were born. How I wish I could go back.

[@katf.a.5539]

Listening to The Lovecats knowing about the drunkness is like hearing it for the first time again! hahaha. Great series, Warren. It's so fun to get some insight into songs and how they came to be. It's also interesting how songs get popular in different parts of the world in different times. I believe in Norway, Friday, I'm In Love is still played by a radio station every Friday.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Kat! Great comment!

[@adamfudala4900]

The solo’d vocals give me the chills. Such a great performance!

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed, so amazing!!

[@Bertanica1979]

Seeing Ed and Phil from Radiohead at the R&R HOF giddy and bobbing their head tells you everything you need to know.

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha agreed!!

[@thevoid99]

and trent reznor feeling like he's doing a big honor to induct one of his favorite bands. NIN and radiohead. 2 giants of art rock and they need to do a tour together.

[@GeoZero]

Already had been a fan of the Cure when this song came out - actually the entire double album of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me has some great songs, and penmanship. This song more than any other before or since solidified my entire trajectory to become a songwriter.

[@Producelikeapro]

Me as well! I bought Primary the day it came out from 'The Record Box' on Fleet High St!

[@GeoZero]

@@Producelikeapro Warren, that whole era - I like to call it the second British invasion - was awesome. P. Furs, The Cure, Smiths, Bauhaus, it was all amazing music, and completely unlike what we had here in the states (or is it still referred to as "the colonies" - just kidding, err sort of). I think I ended up buying the LP, cassette, CD and downloads of Kiss Me. It really is THAT GREAT, and should be listened to in its entirety.

[@mightyV444]

@@GeoZero - I was wondering if 'The Lovecats' was on the 'Kiss Me...' album, so I just checked and found out with surprise that it was released as a stand-alone track! :-O Seeing them perform that song on TV in '84 was my very first Cure experience; "What a weird guy!" I was thinking, and if anyone would've told me then that he and his mates would still be around 36 years later, I would've laughed at them! :-)

[@billium99]

@@GeoZero Oh my, I bought the CD at least three time, cassette once, and iTunes twice (long story). You are spot on about the amazing explosion of way better music in the UK in the 80's.

[@Dana-ee9pb]

As someone who knows very little about music, I love this break down of why it sounds so good.

[@Lililililili333]

This song feels so nostalgic, I always feel like crying when I listen to it

[@Producelikeapro]

Me too! I love that it’s a beautiful song for his wife!

[@AKAtAGG]

The structure on this song is one of the all time best. Intro is absolutely nailed on.

[@hernangarbas]

Every instrument begins in a different first compases of the song. A great idea !!!!

[@kevindenelsbeck7444]

This is wonderful, and great side-by-side with Rick Beato's breakdown of this masterpiece. I would add that the magic of this song, I think, is that it captures the hopeful atmosphere of the '80s perfectly. There were dark possibilities (nuclear war) but also great hope for the future (new millennium approaching), and it was an exciting time to be a young person in love. The availability of synths and other atmospheric production elements to nearly all artists gave everyone a chance to find a dramatic mood, and so many bands swung for the fences with their compositions. Many connected. The Cure hit a grand slam.

[@jeffreywolfe1]

Agreed. Rick Beato's analysis of this song is just spot on perfect.

[@colbyshea5915]

You're right about the subtlety of the guitar. it's what The Cure DON'T do which makes me love them. Just Like Heaven is such a romantic song, I fall in love with it every time I hear it

[@smithy7034]

Remember buying this on 7", from woolworths. Possibly my most favourite song ever. Fills me with emotion, still makes me cry. ❤

[@Producelikeapro]

I believe I bought this at Woolworths as well! Haha i bought music from there, Boots or the Record Box! Although sometimes I would cycle over to Venus Records in Farnham!

[@Juggler4071]

"If you only know one song by The Cure, to this day it will be this one." How about Friday I'm In Love? That was a bigger hit everywhere that Just Like Heaven charted, reached top 20 in the US and was just as catchy and poppy, making it likely to stick in people's memories (unlike, say, Lovesong, which charter higher than both in the US but doesn't get the same airplay today).

[@jack-ti6gp]

i think just like heaven gets a lot of play still (i hear it a lot in supermarkets and malls lol) but personally, boys don’t cry is the first song i heard by the cure.

[@mageprometheus]

Loved it Warren. Another one is There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths

[@mightyV444]

Great song! I had heard it for the very first time only in 2002! :-)

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Mage! YES!! Amazing!!

[@Producelikeapro]

@@mightyV444 yes, truly amazing!!

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Oh god, that song reaches into my chest and pulls my heart out every time - perhaps more so as I get older. My late husband and I used to debate the "meaning" of the lyrics, but the ending that drifts out over a lonely highway, so melancholic and hopeful/hopeless just wrings out the tears.

[@mageprometheus]

@@bluegreenglue6565 What a lovely comment. Some songs are amazing. When I hear Living by Numbers by New Musik it brings back the smell of a pub called The Standard where I used to go in 1980. Sending love from the UK.

[@pwl0lwp]

I love this song for so many reasons. It conjures so many memories, including a doomed love affair that seemed to have been encapsulated in the lyrics. But my favourite memory of this song is sitting in a dive bar in Hong Kong when this came over the speakers… the intro played out & when the lyrics kicked in, everyone in the bar spontaneously silently sang out the “show me show me show me” … beautiful. Thanks Robert.

[@Madfattdeeb]

This song still brings tears to my eyes 36yrs later. Just do much emotion in this song. It is both beautiful and sad, and it still worms its way into my heart.

[@remotoestudio1319]

The Cure are a Big reference for modern indie and pop music, don't forget the amazing Simon Gallup with those incedibles bass lines!! you can "hear the cure" in so many songs today...

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed Ricardo 100%! I love Simon's Bassplaying!

[@arthurreyes2632]

One of the greatest songs ever put out. Still gives me chills.

[@Producelikeapro]

Absolutely! Agreed 100%!

[@jeovanneramos5066]

You know the song is great when you get the chills from the instruments alone

[@martinii_]

The Cure will *always* stay my favourite band ever. They made music history, and they've never released a bad song. Their music is just heavenly, and I doubt anyone could ever produce anything better than their greatest hits. Every album they release is breathtaking, each in a completely different way. I don't understand how anyone could dislike The Cure's Music.

[@shawnhampshirehick101]

Genius! Robert Smith 🤔 his voice has Never changed.

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes! Huge fan

[@oliviadoughty1421]

My University English professor told the class that Robert Smith is the best poet of the 2Oty century.... I was the only person who knew what he meant, and brought in my book of *songwords* the next day. I got an A+!

[@Producelikeapro]

Wow! Amazing to hear Olivia!

[@ferraridan4883]

The layering at the front of the song is pure genius. Great video !!!

[@sulladrum]

I didn't think I could love the Cure more than I already do, but you kicked it up a notch. In the late 70s, I turned my back on arena rock and turned to bands like the Cure, the Jam, and Joy Division. These were bands that received no airplay in the US. I took slack for it as a drummer because these bands supposedly didn't have credible chops, but I started to favor hooks and melody over chops. Your analysis of what made songs like love will tear us apart, how soon is now, and just like heaven game-changers does a great job in illustrating how these newer bands contributed to music's progression.

[@Producelikeapro]

Wow! Thanks ever so much John for sharing your insight! I really appreciate it!

[@rarewaffle3531]

The Cure is incredibly popular but they have been somehow left out of many intellectual conversations about rock. Other than Disintegration and Pornography, they're not as cited as other alternative acts and I find it unfair. As you said, they are incredibly inventive and interesting and more than anything, despite flowing in different genres you know that The Cure has its own distinctive style

[@Producelikeapro]

Indeed! Certainly not by me! I’m a huge fan of The Cure! Massively influential band!!

[@Producelikeapro]

Hi Frank, Thanks ever so much my friend!

[@gergc4871]

"Intellectual" is where you have everything wrong.

[@paulaa.1445]

If the Cure isn't in the conversation then it isn't intellectual

[@ClockwiseCat]

@@gergc4871 Robert Smith is highly intellectual and The Cure's music is cerebral in the extreme

[@NewFalconerRecords]

For years now I've said that I could trade places with anyone in the history of rock/pop it would be Robert Smith. He has had the most perfect career that I can think of. Able to effortlessly straddle that fine line between indie cred and pop success, he's made millions and millions of dollars (having Adele cover a Cure song on one of her multi-platinum releases didn't hurt) yet he's never been thrown into that crazy world of super-stardom that would drive anyone insane. I'm sure that once he wipes off the makeup and puts on a baseball cap he'd be able to walk down a street anywhere in relative anonymity. The Cure have never had a roller-coaster career, they reached a certain level of success in the 1980s and pretty much maintained a loyal fan base from there on. All of their albums sell well, they do massive sell-out tours whenever they want. It's just the perfect career. Well over 40 years since he started out, he's still relevant and loved by so many people all over the world. What more could you possibly want?

[@GregLohr]

Really well said! The only complicating aspect might be their early days when they were doing a ton of drugs and Robert admittedly drove the other band members away, leading to him writing and recording on his own. Plus their fallout with Lol over his alcoholism. But after that, once most of them reunited and they added other great band members, it seems to have been smooth sailing. Not to mention that he's been married to the same woman for decades, and I believe he wrote Just Like Heaven about her. How often does that happen with the lead singer of a huge rock band?

[@Sharonmarshall66]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! The instrumental and riff is what makes this song my all time favourite from ANY band.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@Nickmett]

I love The Cure and I love this series!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Nicolás!!

[@marlonvanwijland1428]

First time I ever heard of the Cure and/or music was when they played this song at the MTV awards in 1989. I got 'hooked' and never let go. Still my favorite band ever. (And that says a lot coming from a metalhead)

[@RC32Smiths01]

Man, this is one of the best songs of the 80s! So amazing to see you break it down in its glories! Cheers!

[@Producelikeapro]

It's a masterpiece!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@Producelikeapro Definitely!

[@BrazosP]

Thanks for posting. Incredible song and one of my all time favorite artists. Unique, authentic, and with their own style. Hard to beat the Cure for best enduring songs of the 80s for me!!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@spencergroup]

Great selection. I saw The Cure twice, once in the mid-80s and again in the mid-2000s. They're still as brilliant now as they were then. There's certainly something almost indescribably special about The Cure. Among their many albums, The Head on the Door is loaded with gems, especially In Between Days. Thanks for the great video.

[@zyrabell69]

I always liked Robert Smith's voice, but this video was awesome because the voice track was separated out. 35 years as a fan of The Cure and tonight my appreciation increased even more. He really does have an amazing voice.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much! Yes, I’m a huge fan of Robert Smith!

[@maryammohammad4566]

please please how did you seperate his voice from track? we want more of it

[@dorianedwards8522]

Thank you, Pearl Thompson, for that iconic most unique pop guitar riff that ever was recorded on tape.

[@Producelikeapro]

Marvellous! Thanks ever so much for sharing Dorian!

[@aaronbird9437]

Love this format. Keep 'em coming! I learn so much...

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Aaron!

[@JustinWoo]

What a great breakdown! Thank you!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Justin!

[@keithroberts150]

Very well done. You and Rick Beato are my favorite music teachers.

[@Producelikeapro]

You're very kind Keith!

[@danfan4707]

“What makes this song change music?” The ultimate mash-up!

[@philfyphil]

The Cure’s Glastonbury concert is one of the very best all time greats. Great video Warren.

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic Phil!!

[@pipperoooo]

The greatest version of Primary live ever is the Glastonbury 1986 version! Like ever!!! :)

[@andrewpetracca6619]

What a pleasant surprise seeing you do a video essay on this song! I discovered it as a teenager around 2009 and it instantly became my favorite pop song of all time. I had no idea how popular it was at the time and I always considered “pictures of you” or “close to me” as their most recognizable song in the public eye. Anyway I was already becoming an enormous cure fan in the previous months and this song cemented Robert Smith as a legend in my mind up there with Eric Clapton and Radiohead and many more. Some songs just have that timeless quality and I hope there’s a teenager who hears it for the first time this year and falls in love with it too!

[@justlisa1599]

"Let's go to bed" was the first Cure song I ever heard here in the states. (in the days before MTV came to town and we only had the crazy little local tv channel playing videos) ((Yes, MTV used to play music 24/7 without commercials!)) "Roundabout" The kids learned about it watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I knew it as a kid from the radio and hadn't heard it in years and still haven't listened to it again and can't stop humming it! That's some staying power.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing Lisa! You Rock my friend!

[@KevinKaffy]

Disintegration is one of my fav albums...pictures of you was a great tune too..whole album is awesome

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed! Masterpiece

[@KevinKaffy]

I actually think it could have been the first album I ever bought 🤔

[@rickl5596]

Possibly my favourite pop song. I could dance all night to it. So cool and touching.....thanks for another great video Warren!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!!

[@ddbauer]

Its incredible to see a song that stands up through decades that has no chorus and what identifies it with listeners is the guitar hook. Timeless, formless, the cure

[@Producelikeapro]

Definitely! The Cure are such a wonderful band!

[@coastalcruise1345]

That top 5 . . . WOW! Along with 'Just like heaven' and many other incredible classics that are sure to be in that top 40 chart. What a magical time for music it was, how things have changed so quickly. Loving this series btw 💕

[@BobJohnson-xo7hr]

Warren, you really nailed the guitar parts with your precise emulation of the sounds off the record. As I hear you play the parts I am reminded of how they fit into the recording. Thanks for your insightful description of the creation of a pop masterpiece.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it

[@NewGoldStandard]

It's so easy to forget this song was recorded without the assistance of Pro-Tools, et al. It really makes it all the more impressive.

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed 100%!

[@questlove_satx]

This song make me cry and laugh and dance and remember all at the same time. That doesn't happen often.

[@Boss_Tanaka]

As you pointed out in the video, l was very familiar with the song because of ‘’ les enfants du rock’’. This show was late at night in the 80s and l remember going to bed happy when l was a child with instrumental ‘’just like heaven’’ indefinitely playing in my head. It was an era when l actually enjoyed watching tv. It s a shame tv shows like this no longer exists in France. Thanks for the memories, l feel melancholic now

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@jaybadhorse5096]

The first Cure song I ever heard. Still one of my favorite songs. Great video, great series. Thank you Sir.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@indepthphoto4351]

“I’ll never write something this good again” Writes : “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” / “This Twilight Garden”

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha indeed! He’s prolific

[@larry6686st]

When my band right now had our first show, we were short of songs and didn't have enough time to write another one so ended up covering this song. Everyone in the audience who was old enough to remember this song went crazy and loved it

[@unbebo28]

One of my personal favorites!!! Dedicated to my Beloved Bride 👰 when our 17th wedding anniversary, 10 years ago ❤ It is a wonderful 🎵 song written by a wonderful song writer, Mr. Smith!!!

[@Producelikeapro]

That’s amazing to hear! Congratulations

[@exceptformeandmymonkey6964]

I'm a metal head but I love the cure. The bass lines are fantastic.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@davidasher22]

I’m actually doing a cover of “Just Like Heaven” as you speak. This is a great breakdown for me right now. Wow!

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic David!!

[@mrduuud]

link please?

[@user-jk6nh9gr7h]

One of my Very FAVORITE songs Ever. I hear multiple melodies from Heaven 🥰

[@hiapoewu]

robert smith never fails to make me the happiest music listener ever

[@Electricowlworks]

The look on Ed O'Brien's face at 11:13 whilst watching The Cure perform live is priceless. - chaz

[@Producelikeapro]

For us Gen Xers The Cure mean so much!!

[@Electricowlworks]

@@Producelikeapro I'm happy you've brought up Robert Smith's amazing songwriting. I've been citing him for years, sometimes, strangely enough, to puzzled looks. Thanks for the validation, Warren! :)

[@Electricowlworks]

@Luke Without any doubt!

[@brianredban9393]

This is probably one of my top 3 songs of all time. The cover by AFI is absolutely remarkable

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@freeian2]

Fan of Dinosaur Jr remake.

[@brianredban9393]

@@freeian2 I couldn't disagree more. They butchered one of the greatest songs ever made and performed. Horrible

[@stevemcdonald6001]

This song blows me away and I was already 37 when it was released! Just call me weird: Southern USA-born and a huge fan of British pop.

[@oOandrewbOo]

Weird... You asked For it. 🙄 To be honest that seems extremely " normal" to me

[@rishiramkissoon6976]

honestly that layered sound..soo good

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes! Amazing!

[@bonesdog18]

wow is this a series? this might be one of your greatest videos, and I've watched LOADS of your stuff! this is interesting and informative on both a deep, and general level. great work! i need more of this!

[@cbglassiii9362]

Saw The Cure on the Disintegration tour in '89. UNO Lakefront Arena in NOLA. Still, to this day, it's by far one of the best live shows I've ever seen.

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, amazing band live! I've seen them many times!

[@TheDimebag49]

I love The Cure, especially this particular song.

[@user-eb8mi3xi5f]

Just Like Heaven is the great song, very memorable tune. My first fav Cure song is In Your House..Simon's cool bass playing and Robert's guitar. Robert is a great guitarlist, he got great melody in his playing.

[@Producelikeapro]

Absolutely! Thanks ever so much

[@whitepony1913]

Great episode, I’m a huge Cure fan. In future episodes you should do Faith No More on the Angel Dust record. That record was hugely influential in metal in how it progressed for decades.

[@blutarheel1]

One of my fav bands of all time and one of my fav songs of all time. Thanks for making this video. Now I've got a huge smile on my face.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@briarrose29]

My all time favorite band.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing

[@fritomx1]

I've been practicing this song on the guitar for a few days now, I love jt!

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic! Yes, love this song and guitar riff!

[@hrorm]

Ahhh shivers !! Thank you for this gem Warren and Produce Like A Pro. Cure Burn !

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@doctorjoyboylove]

One of the things I love about your channel (and about the knowledge I gain through recording and mixing) is, that it makes me understand and appreciate great songs even more. This is a perfect example. Thank you very much.

[@Pink_Mawfia]

I love how you explain some of the music theory! It fascinates me😭

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@richardsteffens6159]

Just want to say I really like the editing on this video. Also love The Cure. Would enjoy another type of video like this in the future. Cheers!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Richard!!