Pretty Sure This 1987 Song is the CLOSEST THING to Musical PERFECTION That EXISTS!-Professor Of Rock

I have a question for you all? How many perfect songs are there in the world. Where every second of it is exhilarating… That no many times you listen to it, it doesn’t lose it’s luster. In my opinion one such song was released in 1987, The Cure's Just Like Heaven. This song’s origins is really interesting as well. It’s just like a dream. If you can believe it, this happy song was inspired by one of the world’s most notorious suicide hot-spots. Only the Cure could get away with something like this. Their frontman Robert Smith was spending the night there, not to take his own life… but in a near-tragic twist of fate, he came dangerously close to dying. The whole incident was darkly surreal… but somehow it led to this perfect song that’s so ambiguous, that after listening to it we’re not sure what happened to the mysterious girl by the time it ends… Did she die? Let’s solve this mystery and bask in Just Like Heaven. The answer is NEXT on the Professor of Rock. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Frank Kuna, zachery perry, Shayne Smith, Tom Stokes, Walter O. Wright II ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #thecure Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. It you used to look forward all year to October for the the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown episode that came on TV you’ll dig this channel of DEEP musical nostalgia Make sure to subscribe below right now. Click the sub button and notifications, you are going to love this channel. We also have a Patreon you'll want to check out. There you’ll find an additional catalog of exclusive content and you can even become an honorary producer to help us curate this music history. So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On today’s episode, we’re showcasing one of the most influential bands of the Rock Era with a song that I would feel more than comfortable awarding the most exhilarating song of the rock era. It’s truly one of the dreamiest, most uplifting, grab-you-by-the-throat singalong classics put to record. It’s a perfect song and one of the most popular songs from the 80s all these years later. Especially with young people who keep discovering it on various platforms and are as blown away as we were… The band is The Cure. And the song is from their breakthrough 1987 double LP Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me we’re covering a song that has a title that aptly describes the song… Just Like Heaven. And even though it is a happy little ditty about falling head over heels it also has a dark origin and the woman of the narrator’s affection might have died in this song? Did this happen in real life… Let’s find out. I talked about this song in one of the first videos we ever did on this channel but it was short and sweet and we never covered the story behind it… so to start Let’s give you 60 second starter on the band and their history Formed in Crawley, England in 1976, the Cure, originally called the Easy Cure, was initially comprised of schoolmates Robert Smith on vocals and guitar, Michael Dempsey on bass, Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst on drums, and Porl Thompson now know as Pearl on guitar. They began writing and demoing their own songs from the get-go, and invested their time and energy gigging around Southern England.