Released 5 February 1980 Length 34:09 (CD version) Artist The Cure Label wea music | Recorded 1978–1979 Producer Chris Parry Release date 5 February 1980 Genres New wave, Post-punk | |
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Boys Don't Cry
(1980) Seventeen Seconds
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Boys Don't Cry is a compilation album by English alternative rock band The Cure. It was released on 5 February 1980 in the UK and in August 1980 in the US as an alternative version of the band's 1979 debut album Three Imaginary Boys with a slightly different track list.
Contents
Release
Boys Don't Cry was released on 5 February 1980 by record label Fiction. According to AllMusic, the album "[falls] somewhere between [an] official release and compilation", and was released "in hopes of increasing the band's exposure outside of the U.K."
Reception
Boys Don't Cry has been generally well received by critics. Debra Rae Cohen of Rolling Stone wrote that the album "proves they can transcend their Comp. Lit. 201 (Elementary Angst) scenarios". Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called the band's sound "dry post-punk, never pretty but treated with a properly mnemonic pop overlay" and was more reserved in his praise, adding: "I can look over the titles and recall a phrase from all but a few of these 13 songs. Intelligent phrases they are, too, yet somehow I find it hard to get really excited about them."
In 2003, the album was ranked number 442 on Rolling Stone's list of the five-hundred best albums ever.
Track listing
All tracks written by The Cure (Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst).
On most CD versions of the album, "Object" was replaced by "So What", the scream at the end of "Subway Song" was shortened and "World War" was removed.Personnel
Songs
1Boys Don’t Cry2:36
2Boys Don't Cry2:15
310:15 Saturday Night3:41