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The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry (1980 US Pressing)

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$85.00

In the spectrum of self-conscious postpunk British bands, the Cure fall squarely between Wire’s sophisticated, jagged architectonics and the Undertones’ concise, wide-eyed pop music. They incorporate a little of each. I guess this means that these guys average out at the college-sophomore level, which is appropriate, since their first English single (the desert-spare “Killing an Arab”) was based on an Albert Camus novel. The Stranger. It’s hard to pull off such a feat without being called pretentious, but Boys Don’t Cry, the Cure’s American debut, proves they can transcend their Comp. Lit. 201 (Elementary Angst) scenarios.

Debra Rae Cohen – Rolling Stone

 

Label: PVC Records – PVC7916, PVC Records – PVC 7916, Fiction Records – PVC7916
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: Feb 5, 1980

Media: VG+

Jacket: VG

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Stock Level Out of stock
SKU 2468885
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