OVERVIEW
Boys Don't Cry is a compilation
album by The Cure, released
in August 1980.
Released: August 1980
Recorded: 1978-1979
Genre: New Wave
Length: 34:08 (CD version)
Label: Fiction Records
Producer(s): Chris Parry
HISTORY
It is the U.S. version of their UK debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, differing slightly
in track order and missing three songs ("Foxy Lady," "Meathook," "It's Not You") while adding others ("Boys Don't Cry," "Plastic
Passion," "Jumping Someone Else's Train", "World War" and "Killing an Arab"). The debut single from this album was "Boys Don't Cry".
On the back cover of original UK album Three Imaginary Boys, the song titles were not
listed conventionally, but represented by pictograms. Boys Don't Cry took the pictogram for the song "Fire in Cairo" for its sleeve picture.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 442 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
TRACK LISTING
Original album
Side A
- "Boys Don't Cry" - 2:35
- "Plastic Passion" - 2:14
- "10.15 Saturday Night" - 3:38
- "Accuracy" - 2:16
- "Object" - 3:03
- "Jumping Someone Else's Train" - 2:56
- "Subway Song" - 1:59
Side B
- "Killing an Arab" - 2:22
- "Fire in Cairo" - 3:21
- "Another Day" - 3:43
- "Grinding Halt" - 2:49
- "World War" - 2:36
- "Three Imaginary Boys" - 3:14
CD version
On the CD version of the album, "Object" was replaced by "So What", the scream at the end of "Subway Song"
was shortened, and "World War" was removed because Robert Smith thought it was the worst song The
Cure ever made.
- "Boys Don't Cry" -
2:35
- "Plastic Passion" - 2:14
- "10.15 Saturday Night" - 3:38
- "Accuracy" - 2:16
- "So What" - 3:01
- "Jumping Someone Else's Train" -
2:56
- "Subway Song" - 1:55
- "Killing an Arab" -
2:22
- "Fire in Cairo" - 3:21
- "Another Day" - 3:43
- "Grinding Halt" - 2:49
- "Three Imaginary Boys" - 3:14
BAND
