The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry”

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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).

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The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry”

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The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” released on this date, February 5th, 1980 in the UK. Fiction Records/PVC Records. The US version was released in August of 1980, both as an alternate version of the band’s 1979 debut album Three Imaginary Boys with a slightly different track list. The record falls in a grey area between an official release and a compilation record.

Boys Don’t Cry includes three singles not on Three Imaginary Boys: “Killing an Arab,“ ”Boys Don’t Cry“ and ”Jumping Someone Else’s Train.” Tracks that overlap are “10:15 Saturday Night,” “Accuracy,” “Grinding Halt,” “Subway Song,” and, one of my favorite Cure songs, the beautifully haunting “Three Imaginary Boys.” Allmusic reviewer Chris True describes this time in The Cure’s recording catalog as “More poppy and representative of the times” and “a semi-detached bit of late-‘70s English pop-punk, angular and lyrically abstract..utter simplicity.”

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