the Cure ~ Boys Don’t Cry

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I was a late adapter to The Cure, discovering them 6 years after they released their first album, Boys Don’t Cry (Three Imaginary Boys in England, but Boys Don’t Cry had several different, superior, tracks.)   My first Cure album was The Head on the Door, which I loved loved loved.  After playing the hell out of that album (casette tape in the boom box in my VW Bug), over and over and over, I started looking at their older work.  My favorite was Boys Don’t Cry.  I loved “10:15 Saturday Night”, “Fire In Cairo”, “Killing an Arab”. I don’t think there’s a single song on that album that I don’t love. Such an awesome album. Maybe the best of their early years. The Cure were amazing, especially to a girl desperate to escape radio in the Valley in the 80s.  They led me to another love of mine, New Order.  Loved them even more.

Anyway, here, a hit from 1980, though I didn’t find it until quite a few years later, Boys Don’t Cry. But really, the whole album is awesome. Dated, but really, really awesome.