The Cure’s US breakout hit Just Like Heaven belongs to me, and me alone – just like a few million other people.  I am entirely uninterested in covers of it, from the painfully misconceived to the anesthetized pablum. Because there is simply no way you could ever improve on this:
And yet, I find myself hitting repeat on this, a mashup which lays the Cure’s vocals over the Commodore’s Easy:
Strange what works, sometimes. (I suspect it just won’t, for many of you. Good thing you still have your copy of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, eh?)
sasha
Hang on. Did you just call the Dinosaur Jr cover “painfully misconceived’? Sometimes, I worry about you.
MB
I did. And I was being nice about it, even.
Peej
sasha, I’m a fan of Dinosaur Jr. and I have to admit, it was a bit painful for me, too.
I wonder if someone like Queens of the Stone Age covered it, whether it would work.