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Just Like Heaven

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Dinosaur Jr. covers the Cure? Yeah, but where the Cure did the original "Just Like Heaven" as an eighties pop piece more suited to sparkle on John Hughes movie soundtracks, J Mascis and company tear it up and put it back together as a true masterpiece of anger and grunge. The bass growls, the screamed YOUUUUUU of the chorus, and the way the song ends abruptly in a crash of guitars and feedback all contribute to a fine reinterpretation of a surprisingly emotional piece.

Not truly B-sides but clearly there to fill out some space, both "Throw Down" and "Chunks" are less complete ideas than mere snippets of songs, fun, bass-heavy and raw, still clearly from the heyday of Dinosaur Jr. The original LP, a full-sized disk played at '45, is a collectors item - the B-side of the album's vinyl is imprinted with anatomical drawings of organs and a Rice Krisps box - but even the CD's cover art is vintage Dinosaur Jr. Worth owning in either format.

This was the defining moment of the Dinosaur enterprise. Mr. Mascis steps up to the plate and swings his ax, "Just Like Heaven" could never be the same again. I couldn't either; for this is the real life song; just as I have been living it..

If you want the just like heaven cover you'll like this. Just like heaven is an amazing song its so cool the music video was cool too if you have seen it. Plus two other songs that appered on the fossils CD (which are'nt very good).

This was the defining moment of the Dinosaur enterprise. Mr. Mascis steps up to the plate and swings his ax, "Just Like Heaven" could never be the same again. I couldn't either; for this is the real life song; just as I have been living it..

This isnt soundgarden and never will be its dinosaur jr!

I am lucky to still have this one as a Vinyl 12". I'm pretty sure it was my first taste of Dinosaur Jr., and I'm also pretty sure that I bought it for the Cure cover. Both versions of this song are tired today, but the second and third songs on Side A are well worth hearing. It's a mistake to call them B Sides because all of Side B of the record was carved up into an intricate design that included squiggly and straight lines and a brain and a box of cereal, so, of course, Side B was completely unplayable. I'm not sure what this sort of record-carving is called, but I have met several people who seem familiar with it, so I guess other bands did it too, though this is the only one I have ever seen.