{"id":3632416,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3632416/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-22T15:55:27-07:00","show":66252,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66252/?format=json","image_uri":"https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-cd851538-373a-4155-9096-d9e60889ca81/mbid-cd851538-373a-4155-9096-d9e60889ca81-16874188182_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-cd851538-373a-4155-9096-d9e60889ca81/mbid-cd851538-373a-4155-9096-d9e60889ca81-16874188182_thumb250.jpg","song":"Just Like Heaven","track_id":"f16e0b31-f97f-385e-b801-581eeeeb3197","recording_id":"d0103536-d0e6-41ea-ad71-d3e990ebe7b9","artist":"Dinosaur Jr.","artist_ids":["77c167d2-4965-4421-830a-9815e4956475"],"album":"Duck and Cover","release_id":"cd851538-373a-4155-9096-d9e60889ca81","release_group_id":"9ca64459-cbdd-337f-ae94-af4a39318081","labels":["SST Records"],"label_ids":["361acf91-04bb-4e85-8485-28a4d00d1e56"],"release_date":"1990-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Six Degrees of Robert Smith/The Cure!\n\nOriginally released as a single in the UK two years after The Cure’s original version, Dinosaur Jr.’s take on \"Just Like Heaven\" was originally meant to be included on a compilation of punk rock covers before the band decided they wanted to release it as a stand-alone single.\n\n\"We recorded it for a compilation album, but when we finished it we liked it so much we didn’t want to give it to them,\" J Mascis told Musician Magazine in 1989.\n\nDinosaur Jr. even sent Robert Smith a cassette of the cover, to which Smith responded enthusiastically. \n\n\"J Mascis sent me a cassette, and it was so passionate. It was fantastic. I’ve never had such a visceral reaction to a cover version before or since,\" Smith told Blender back in 2003.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}