Why Can't I Be You?

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"Why Can't I Be You?"
"Why Can't I Be You?" cover
Single by The Cure
from the album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Released April 8, 1987
Format 7", 12"
Genre Rock
Length 3:14
Label Fiction Records
Producer(s) Robert Smith
Dave Allen
Chart positions
  • #21 (UK)
  • #54 (USA)
The Cure singles chronology
"Boys Don't Cry (New Voice)"
(1986)
"Why Can't I Be You?"
(1987)
"Catch"
(1987)

Why Can't I Be You? is the name of a 1987 single by The Cure from their album "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me".

Contents

[edit] History

The German CD single was the first for the band. Most subsequent releases would contain a CD single element.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 7": Fiction / Fics 25 (UK)

  1. "Why Can't I Be You?" (3:12)
  2. "A Japanese Dream" (3:27)

[edit] 2x7": Fiction / Ficsg 25 (UK)

  1. "Why Can't I Be You?" (3:12)
  2. "A Japanese Dream" (3:27)
  1. "Six Different Ways [Live in Orange]" (3:26)
  2. "Push [Live in Orange]" (4:35)

[edit] 12": Fiction / Ficsx 25 (UK)

  1. "Why Can't I Be You? [Extended Mix]" (8:07)
  2. "A Japanese Dream [Extended Mix]" (5:47)
  • also released on German CD Polydor 888 454-2

[edit] Personnel


The Cure
Robert Smith | Porl Thompson | Simon Gallup | Jason Cooper
The Cure personnel
Discography
Studio albums: Three Imaginary Boys | Seventeen Seconds | Faith | Pornography | The Top | The Head on the Door | Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me | Disintegration | Wish | Wild Mood Swings | Bloodflowers | The Cure
Live albums: Concert | Entreat | Paris | Show | Trilogy
Compilations: Boys Don't Cry | Japanese Whispers | Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea | Mixed Up | Galore | Greatest Hits | Join the Dots
EPs: Half an Octopuss & Quadpus | Lost Wishes | Five Swing Live
Singles: "Killing an Arab" | "Boys Don't Cry" | "Jumping Someone Else's Train" | "A Forest" | "Primary" | "Charlotte Sometimes" | "A Single" | "Let's Go to Bed" | "The Walk" | "The Lovecats" | "The Caterpillar" | "In Between Days" | "Close to Me" | "Why Can't I Be You?" | "Catch" | "Just Like Heaven" | "Hot Hot Hot!!!" | "Fascination Street" | "Lullaby" | "Lovesong" | "Pictures of You" | "Never Enough" | "Close to Me (remix)" | "High" | "Friday I'm in Love" | "A Letter to Elise" | "The 13th" | "Mint Car" | "Gone!" | "Strange Attraction" | "Wrong Number" | "Cut Here" | "End of the World" | "Taking Off" & "alt.end"
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