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13th / Ocean / It Used to Be Me

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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.

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.

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.

My review for this CD is mainly due to the fact that it holds one of my personal favourite Cure songs "It Used to be Me"(and "Ocean" is really good too, plus an alternate "the 13th"). Someone really ticked off Robert before they cut this one and it shows. Bob sings about being stuck in a dead end relationship and feeling striped of dignity and identity. And that he realizes how it changes him.

Man, when will people learn, if you wrong this boy, he's just gonna turn around and write an angry song about you. gee. some people.

Anyway. I dig this song. It's pure Electricity. I even enjoy it more than any song off of Wild Mood Swings. And I can't understand why it isn't recorded on there. Or even on a soundtrack, or a compilation. Or anywhere where more people can hear it.

Darn it Robert. What's wrong with you. I just can't figure you out.

Right now he'll be writing a song about me. An angry one.

The remixes of "The 13th" I could really care less about, but the song "It used to be me" is one of the best, if not the best, Cure song on the market. This is a "must have" for any real Cure fan. Breathtaking........

The 13th is a great single. The B-side It Used To Be Me, alone is worth it! My new favorite Cure Song! A must have for any Cure fan!

Although I have just in the past two years REALLY come to appreciate the cure, I believe that I am now a TRUE cure fan, and it now amazes me how much music that the band has put out that I knew nothing about. Now I see a single I don't have, and I buy it, because I am never dissapointed by the results. It is always well worth the money to hear a song that is pure genius. Ocean really captured my fancy, and I still think that it is in my top five favorites. It's a really good single, and I guess my point is, Aren't they all?

ever wonder if robert smith was say................less than completly straight? i mean he wears make up and all like that.but it could just be for theatrics like kiss.theres a b-side out called "a man in my mouth".thats more than a little suspicious.hes got a borderline feminine way of singing and can hit high notes pretty easily,like on love cats.theres the lip stick laden album kiss me kiss me kiss me.the single "why cant i be you" about a chick.well,he is married.what about the song "lullaby" where "spider man is having him for dinner tonight?"once again,this sounds a little fishy.then theres THE SINGLE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT ALL THAT LED UP TO.he has no kids and then released this single "the 13th".it has a very flamboyant and fresh from the closet feel to it.in it hes watching a chick on a stage and falling in love.its all good despite the closet thing.then theres the lines "i think i get a bit confused.am i seducing or being seduced?".thats not a question a guy with a girl would ask.i think hed have a pretty good idea.then it goes on to talk about "ill be all the things in a world ive never been.see all the things in a world ive never seen".............you see where im going with this.hes batting for the other team for the 1st time.also,theres the line"its like tonight im really not me at all".that could be alluding to something .and his lover,the girl,offers to"take him on another kind of ride".it just comes off less than masculine.oh yeah,and what about that video where theyre all in a closet together?then its to be continued and the big suprise at the end is it breaks and they all come out of the closet?i was a really big cure fan before this single came out but im not so sure now.they did an album called paris too.they couldve named it after any city in the world but named it after that one with a reputation for..................well,id better get back to the facts here.i hitchiked in the rain to go and buy this album and was downright disturbed to realize finaly that this guy id been defending the whole time had more than likely became a switch hitter!theres a unreleased b-side like with every cure single since they are after our money and do everything from a buisness standpoint.