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Boys Don't Cry

~ The Cure
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  • Audio CD (19 Mar 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fiction
  • ASIN: B0000262NM
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,955 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Boys Don't Cry
2. Plastic Passion
3. 10:15 Saturday Night
4. Accuracy
5. So What
6. Jumping Someone Else's Train
7. Subway Song
8. Killing an Arab
9. Fire in Cairo
10. Another Day
11. Grinding Halt
12. Three Imaginary Boys

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When Robert Smith's long-running group made this debut (actually the resequenced American version of the British Three Imaginary Boys), they weren't the Goth-and-reverb, new wave heroes they later became; they were just a trio of disaffected kids who didn't like what was on the radio, because it wasn't smart enough or dark enough. Smith's lyrics are bleakly sarcastic (as when he spells out the title of "Fire in Cairo") and literate (the single "Killing an Arab," a nihilistic sketch based on a scene from Albert Camus's The Stranger). The band matches them with swift, tingling arrangements that dodge skilfully around rock's machismo and self-indulgence, even when Smith launches into the occasional gnarled solo. --Douglas Wolk


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Inaugurating the shadowy gloom/blissful pop combination that became the Cure's trademark, BOYS DON'T CRY contains healthy portions of both, along with a dose of punk-fueled angst befitting the times in which it was recorded. Robert Smith reveals himself as an alarmingly developed songwriter--thoughhe was still in his late teens when these songs were written, his compositional abilities are as impressive as the potential they reveal.
The album produced a string of hits, several of which were to remain signature tunes for the groupthroughout their lengthy tenure in pop's upper strata. The title track, as touchingly naive and vulnerable a love song as one could ask for, is the album's best-known song. "Killing An Arab", based on a famous passage from "The Stranger", attracted controversy while it displayed Smith's burgeoning taste in exotic compositional textures. The gently bizarre "10:15 Saturday Night" is a calm study in dynamics, while "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is a cry for individuality, a sentiment truly at the heart of this and all the group's work.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Cure's earliest work still up there with the rest., 13 Aug 2002
By Bored (London, UK) - See all my reviews
How times change. If anyone had told me that Robert Smith and co. were to go from their inauspicious post-punk days to become one of the most well-known UK pop bands there'd ever been, I probably would have accused them of lying. If you're a fan of their later works, or even their not-so-later works, this album will certainly surprise you, but you will probably find it to be a pleasant one.

Displaying a heavy punk influence, especially from The Clash, it seems, Boys Don't Cry is extremely impressive in its own right. The sense of melody in Fire in Cairo, my personal favourite, shines through and displays perhaps the first inkling of Robert Smith's wonderfully abstract lyrics that would first start to show up in a couple of years on their 1981 release, Faith.

But overall, I find this album difficult to fault, other than that Robert's voice seems extremely raw in comparison to their more polished releases, but some may find this a plus point, rather than a minus one. I would recommend this to someone who has already bought a couple of Cure albums and wants to find out how diverse their style has turned out to be.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars pOpTaStIc !, 4 Oct 2000
I find The Cure's later albums to be quite laborious and heavy. But this early album serves up some very carefree tunes, with a far more devil may care attitude, revealing The Cure's Punk origins. The pacier tracks such as 'Killing an Arab' , 'Jumping someone elses train' and the excellent 'Fire in Cairo' are countered by the slower, atmospheric songs such as 'World War', '3 Imaginary Boys' and the shocking 'Subway song' that mark their future direction.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Cure, 1 Oct 2003
By A. Moynihan (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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Strictly speaking, this album is a combination of the Cure's debut album Three Imaginary Boys and the singles they released throughout 1979. I think it's a masterpiece for any amount of reasons. It's genius lies in the fact that it is superficially very easy listening (even your Granny could digest it) but is not typically mainstream. On seeing the wood from the trees, the listener is invited to experience the depth and power of twelve mind-blowing pieces of music. And The Cure also show that you can do more with less instruments - the album's minimalism is perhaps its main charm. Smith's vocals are also brilliantly raw - not the sort of operatic yodelling he attempted in his later career.Another Day is my perhaps favourite track ... I could go on ...
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