100 favourite songs: #5: "Just Like Honey" - The Jesus and Mary Chain

It’s all there in the first 20 seconds: “Be My Baby”-quoting drums ring the song in, the fuzzed-out jangle of the guitars soon follows, and then come those broody, reverb-coated vocals — it all promises nothing less than shimmering undiluted dreamy pop glory, and in its 3:00, crashing, cascading waves of guitar noise and echoey vocal layers wrapped around its blissful melodic core, that’s exactly what “Just Like Honey” is. (Then, too, the song’s appearance in Lost in Translation only makes everything even more perfect, of course.)