merlin:

“You…lost and lonely”

Dinosaur Jr - “Just Like Heaven” (Cure cover, 1989)

Given that I can’t find the following quote anywhere today, I’ll assume it was apocryphal.

But, when the JLH single came out (my last year of college, thanks), I remember hearing that an interviewer had asked J why Dinosaur Jr would ever choose to cover such a shiny, spangly Cure song.

Mascis (supposedly) responded,

“So we could score with death rock chicks.”

Almost certainly spurious. Maybe not. Either way, nice sentiment.

I can attest to the fact that, at least during Dinosaur Jr’s heyday, the death- and goth-rock girls were, indeed, the hottest.

This despite (or, because of?) the fact that many cut themselves like human crudités and smoked enough Djarums to smell like a deli-thin slice of emphysemic ham.

The species also had a well-documented proclivity for “dancing” in small, mopey packs, which—when viewed through my self-prescribed lens of seven (7) Amaretto Sours—always called to mind a herd of suicidal question marks.

Totally hot question marks.

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