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| Freakshow (Mix 13) | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $1.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 19052
Format: Single
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001149032
UPC: 602517751873
EAN: 0602517751873
ASIN: B0019M82EO
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Yikes June 16, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I wasn't overwhelmed by the first single, I found "Only One" to be a pleasant, but not particularly memorable light Cure song, and the flip side to be most unpleasant. But this . . . blows. Both of these songs are an absolute mess of squawking and squeaking without any kind of compelling melody at all. I didn't even bother to save the rips.
It seems as though "UTS" is the overwhelming favorite of the songs played on the tour (see Y-tube), hopefully that's the next single [No, see the comments or the Chain of Flowers fansite]. But what concerns me is that 3 out of 4 of the first songs are really awful, and somehow Bob didn't know it. That only happened once before in his career.
It was one of the worst days of my life, standing there in front of my stereo with WMS in my hands, cycling through the songs one after another until the realization that there wasn't one decent song on the entire CD sunk in. He recovered from that and produced the brilliant Bloodflowers, but the point is, it's a little late now to lose the muse again, I'm not sure he has time to get it back. Maybe by some miracle the rest of the CD will be great and these are just wild exceptions? Then why did he chose to release them first? I'm filled with dread at this point, not anticipation.
 Thank god it's only two and a half minutes! June 16, 2008
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
Wow - one of the worst Cure songs I've ever heard. Why this was chosen as a single is beyond me. I can't believe we've waited four years for a new album, and this is what they put on it! As if that isn't bad enough, the flipside is probably THE worst Cure song I've ever heard. And this from a band whose B-sides are often as good or better than the songs on the albums. Robert Smith - what are you thinking????
 Great! June 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At last we're having a new cocky brave stylish song by The Cure. It's good to know that they still have the guts to try new sounds (like they used to do back in the days - before Disintegration) even at the risk of displeasing purist fans who just want them releasing morose gloom and doom music. Excellent.
 if it doesn't make you want to dance you might be dead July 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all I am that kind of Cure fan that literally loves everything they do, although I love Disintegration, Wish, and Head on the Door more than their other albums... As soon as I put this disc on I was floored by how infectiously groovy it is, it made me instantly start shaking my hips and waving my arms. It's a crazy little wild dance frenzy hit that doesn't rely on tiresome electronic beats, blips, and samples to get your butt shakin'.
Losing it June 24, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a big Cure fan and I have both of the new singles and I'm a little more than dissapointed. Gone are the catchy hooks and lush melodies from the early eighties through the time of Bloodflowers. (The Top being the exception, I didn't like that album) What remains are what seems to be Robert Smith and Co. writing incoherent sometimes jumbled messes that sorta resemble Cure songs but they just seem to be bad B-sides. Now I'm the first one that does not like bands that just imitate what they have previously recorded but this is a far cry from that and its just bad. I was hoping for a Cure resurgence and instead I'm getting a jumbled convoluted mess that I can no longer spend money on.
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