Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam York album, Kurt Cobain refers to the song as "a rendition of an old Christian song, I think. But we do it the Vaselines' way." Elvis Costello uses the line "Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam" in the song "Alibi" from his 2002 album "When I Was Cruel". On the deluxe edition of their 2014 Album "Bleach House", Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub released a cover of "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam". Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP
Stand by Me (film) reviews." In a 2011 piece entitled "25 years of 'Stand by Me'", writer Alex Hannaford opined that "[for] anyone older than about 33, [Stand by Me] remains one of the greatest films to come out of the Eighties." Hannaford added that the film "has a charm and depth that seems to resonate with each generation". In 2016, several writers commemorated the 30-year anniversary of the film's release. "Rolling Stone"'s Charles Bramesco called "Stand By Me" "timeless," "a staple of youthful nostalgia for its deft straddling of the line between childhood and adulthood," and "the rare movie that necessarily gets better