The Cure | Boys Don't Cry (Comp.) | Album

The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry (released February 1980) is one of the most successful reconfigurations in post-punk history, successfully reshaping the band’s shaky UK debut into a streamlined masterpiece. While technically a compilation assembled by Fiction Records manager Chris Parry to break the band into the American and Australian markets, it serves as the definitive introduction to the trio's minimalist, jagged early era. By trimming down the filler from Three Imaginary Boys and adding essential, stand-alone singles, the album offers a lean, highly accessible window into Robert Smith's evolving genius.

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