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Various - Just Like Heaven - A Tribute To The Cure (2008) [FLAC] - RoB 

Label: American Laundromat Records
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock  
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Just-Like-Heaven-A-Tribute-To-The-Cure/release/1526736

It wasn’t until Kevin Shields played us some of his earliest music that we realized how much of a seminal band the Cure really is. Robert Smith’s songwriting is so etheral and yet totally structured. We never would have related the two bands to one another but if you listen through all of My Bloody Valentine’s layers the inspiration is clear. Of the long list of bands inspired by MBV, us included, a lot of the credit really needs to go to the Cure. — Joy Zipper

Sometimes we, the members of Kitty Karlyle, try to imagine what it would have been like if we went to high school with Robert Smith. We’re not sure if he would have wanted to be our friend, but it’s a safe bet we would have sat at the same lunch table. Back in the day, our Cure albums were sacred objects. They taught us to embrace our disaffection, our alienation, our despair. They celebrated everything that was good about everything that was bad. And no song in the Cure catalogue so perfectly typified the light-from-darkness ethos as In Between Days. Robert wanted to die! He shivered like a child! He pleaded with a lost lover to come back, come back, come back to him! And yet… as those synthesizers wrapped their loving arms around you, and the guitars bounced off your bedroom walls, you couldn’t help but feel like it was your lucky day. For three perfect minutes, you could stop sobbing into your pillow, and dance on your bed. Excuse us… our mascara is running. — Kitty Karlyle

The oeuvre of The Cure is, to me, the musical equivalent of the Encyclopedia Britannica — an amazing reference tool for researching the myriad ways one can approach the task of constructing a flawless, unique, hooky, synth-based pop song, over and over and over. There’s the hilariously vibrant, catchy tunes, and then the gorgeous ones that haunt. It’s all just so good. Anyone who tells you that Robert Smith is not a complete genius is a stick-in-the-mud. — Violet Clark

We chose A Strange Day because it’s an awesome song, and it’s not one of the Hits. It’s just obscure enough to have allowed us to come out of left field a bit, and to represent a lesser-known period in the Cure’s career for the tribute record. We really had fun reinventing the song and being playful without the self-consciousness one might encounter when messing with the iconic quality of some of the more well-known songs. — Grand Duchy

JUST LIKE HEAVEN-JOY ZIPPER
THE LOVECATS-TANYA DONNELY AND DYLAN IN THE MOVIES
LOVESONG-THE BRUNETTES
IN BETWEEN DAYS-KITTY KARLYLE
FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE-DEAN AND BRITTA
JUMPING SOMEONE ELSE’S TRAIN-LUFF
BOYS DON’T CRY-THE SUBMARINES
CLOSE TO ME-ELK CITY
THE WALK-THE ROSEBUDS
PICTURES OF YOU-ELIZABETH HARPER AND THE MATINEE
LET’S GO TO BED-CASSETTES WON’T LISTEN
CATCH-DEVICS
A NIGHT LIKE THIS-JULIE PEEL
10:15 SATURDAY NIGHT-THE POEMS
A STRANGE DAY-GRAND DUCHY (VIOLET CLARK AND BLACK FRANCIS )
HIGH-THE WEDDING PRESENT