Had to see wtf this thing which is about to pass Despacito actually is lol

From Decade 77-87 on Facebook

On this date in 1987, THE CURE released the single JUST LIKE HEAVEN (October 5th 1987).

JUST LIKE HEAVEN was a blissful combination of instruments, beautifully expressed and sequenced with a driving beat, moody synths and ecstatic lyrics. In just over three minutes this tour de force of pop delivered with nothing wasted.

Robert Smith had always been his own harshest critic, so it was noteworthy that by his own exacting standards he stated in interview that, 'Just Like Heaven' stands as "The best pop song The Cure has ever done... all the sounds meshed, it was one take, and it was perfect."

For a song so uplifting, it’s interesting to note that it was written at a time when The Cure was falling apart. Robert was drinking heavily, but it was Lol Tolhurst who was consuming more. Before long, he would find himself ejected from the band.

"In 1987," recalled Smith, "my wife Mary and I lived in a small two-bedroomed flat in Maida Vale in North London. The other room was my music room. Just about the only discipline I had in my life was self-imposed. I set myself a regime of writing 15 days a month, otherwise I’d have just got up in the mid-afternoon and watched TV until the pubs opened, then gone out drinking."

Fortunately, he forced himself to stick to his writing schedule and the germ of an idea that became 'Just Like Heaven' emerged as a pattern of guitar chords and a melody line, which he recorded as a demo by himself.
"I knew as soon as I’d written it that it was a good pop song," he said.

"Although I didn’t realise it at the time, the structure is actually very similar to a song called 'Another Girl Another Planet' by The Only Ones, which I can still vividly remember hearing on the radio late at night in the mid-70s.

The main difference is that as the song progressed, I introduced some different chord changes which give it that slightly melancholic feeling."

The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987.

The opening line that came to Smith harked back to his childhood, when he had first enjoyed the thrill of baffling his friends by mastering a couple of basic magic tricks.

"On one level, that’s what ‘Show me how you do that trick’ is about, but on another it’s about a seduction trick, from much later in my life. It was something that happened on Beachy Head, on the South Coast of England.“

“The song’s about hyper-ventilating – kissing and fainting to the floor. Mary dances with me in the video because she was the girl, so it had to be her. The idea is that one night like that is worth a thousand hours of drudgery."

The song was the Cure's eleventh top 40 hit in the UK, and stayed on the charts for five weeks during October and November 1987, peaking at number 29.

Are you ready Steve?

Are you ready Garth?



Also, Relic Hunter FTW.

Got MTV ... So 80s! on in the background and this came on:




Reminded me of the crush I had on Tawny Kitaen back then - she did this movie with Lee Curreri of "Fame"-fame (Bruno), Crystal Heart and while it's a cheesy movie, she made quite the impression back then.

Bonus Tawny:

While not acknowledging that that's anywhere close to a legal raise, I'll still cap with:



You just can't beat Orbison/Lynch at this game.

Eric Prydz....takes me back to when I started my poker "career" in 2011.

one of the very best pop songs ever made

I couldn't agree more.
I knew a girl in the 80s with a lovecat or luvcats license plate.
Somehow I didn't discover the Cure till the 90s.

Roxy Music are the coolest band in the history of music. Bryan Ferry as lead singer pretty much guarantees that on its own, but then you have the fact that Eno was hospitalised due to ****ing too much and that his full name is “Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno”, then you have Phil Manzanera ... and so on.

Forgive me, this song doesn’t feature Eno, in my weakness I was distracted by my admiration of the backing singers.

Best cover ever? Definitely a case to be made for it.

Encore, just because it is so great:

Roxy Music is an all time great

If looks could kill ...

They would have fit in great in todays reality tv world.

Crazier than a cut snake but god damn she could sing. Have to think overall she wasted some serious, serious talent.

Is there anyone better looking than Terri Nunn?

Saw Berlin back in the 80s...great concert...Nunn puts on a helluva show. Great singer, too.

Speaking of Berlin, what became of the sequel to Top Gun? Has it been Corvid -pushed to 2021?

Trey Anastasio - live the last 3 and the next 6 Fridays at 8 on twitch.tv

The problem with AC/DC is that they only have variations on one song, very good though it is.