The Cure
Boys Don't Cry
Label:  Fiction 
Date:  1979
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Gothic Rock
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      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 skillfully around rock's machismo and self-indulgence, even when Smith launches into the occasional gnarled little solo. --Douglas Wolk