The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” released 40 years ago today, February 5th, 1980. Fiction Records. Their second release, the compilation album (which was a pretty ballsy move considering it came out just one year after their debut album and just two months before their second studio album Seventeen Seconds) includes mostly tracks from Three Imaginary Boys: “10:15 Saturday Night,” “Accuracy,” “Grinding Halt,” “Another Day,” “Object,” “Subway Song,” “Fire in Cairo,” and “Three Imaginary Boys” (one of my all-time Cure favorites). Also appearing on Boys Don’t Cry are three stand-alone singles: the title track “Boys Don’t Cry” which hit #22 in the UK, “Jumping Someone Else’s Train” and “Killing an Arab,” The Cure’s first single from late ‘78. Plus “Plastic Passion” and  the intense, almost industrial-punk “World War.” Fiction Records released Boys Don’t Cry after the UK success of Three Imaginary Boys in an effort to increase the band’s international sales (our copy is the US release on PVC Records).