13th / Ocean / It Used to Be Me [Single]

The Cure | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 23, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HYJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,234 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The 13th [Two Chord Cool Mix]

2. Ocean

3. It Used to Be Me

4. The 13th [Killer Bee Mix]

Editorial Reviews

THE CURE The 13th (1996 US Elektra label 4-track CD single featuring Two Chord Cool and Killer Bee Mixes Ocean and It Used To Be Me full colour ecopak picture sleeve #66036-2)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It used to be heaven, August 19, 2001

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"insectwings" (Cinti, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 13th / Ocean / It Used to Be Me (Audio CD)

The Cure has never failed to amaze me, though as their sound progresses from strictly guitar to a more techno-ish quality, it loses some passion.

Robert Smith makes a game out of falling in and out of love. His songs are a glimmer of hope seen through the eyes of a doubting Thomas.

All in all, every album is, in itself, beautiful and brilliant.

"The 13th" single is no less, though I am not a huge fan of remixes and forced habit.

Simply to buy this album for the song "It Used to be Me", simply to spend the money for it is, in my opinion, worth it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for "It Used To Be Me", September 4, 2003

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Chernabog "chernabog1" (Mansfield, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 13th / Ocean / It Used to Be Me (Audio CD)

I can take or leave these 13th remixes. The song isn't that great to begin with. However, this is the only place that you can find "It Used To Be" which sounds more like a Disintegration B-side than one from Wild Mood Swings. A dark and moody song that is vintage Robert...vintage Cure. It is worth the price of the CD to be able to listen to that song over and over again.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Echoing the other reviews..., May 12, 2003

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Kevin White (Keller, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 13th / Ocean / It Used to Be Me (Audio CD)

If you're shopping for Cure single-CDs, I'll assume you've probably heard and probably own the song The 13th. If not, you can go hear a short sample of it by looking up the album "Wild Mood Swings" here at Amazon. It's a good song with interesting wordplay and crystal-clear production. I'm not sure I could tell a difference between the two "remixes" of it on this single (so if you were expecting the song to be taken in a new direction a la "Mixed Up", you'll be disappointed). But it's worth owning if you don't own it on "Galore" or "Wild Mood Swings".

However, as the other reviewers have said, the strength of this disc for a Cure fan is its "B-sides", Ocean and It Used to Be Me. Ocean is vintage laid-back Cure contemplation, complete with mellow touches of that flanged guitar, cello, a gong, and Robert's "quiet" voice (with very subtle harmonization). It's sublime.

It Used to Be Me is the most urgent Cure song I think I have in my collection. I see this as coming from the same direction as the song End from the 1992 album "Wish", if you recall that. It's Robert speaking directly of and to his rabid, worshipping fanbase. On It Used to Be Me, his voice soars and pleads in an unprecedented way. It's Robert being Robert, and it comes off as brutally honest and direct.

I'm no longer a hopeless Cure fan, having long since moved on to hundreds of other bands, but there are some tunes that remain part of my current musical consciousness, and this single-CD contains three of them. This disc is well worth buying and keeping and deserves a place in your collection.