Boys Don't Cry (album)

Boys Don't Cry
Compilation album by The Cure
Released	February 5, 1980
Recorded	1978–1979
Genre	Post-punk
Length	34:09 (CD version)
Label	Fiction (UK) PVC (U.S. original release) Elektra (1986 reissue)
Producer	Chris Parry
The Cure compilations chronology
Boys Don't Cry (1980) Happily Ever After (1981)
Singles from Boys Don't Cry
"Killing an Arab" Released: December, 1978 "Boys Don't Cry" Released: June, 1979 "Jumping Someone Else's Train" Released: November, 1979

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Boys Don't Cry is a U.S. debut album by The Cure, released in February 1980 in the UK and in August 1980 (see 1980 in music) in the U.S. It is a compilation of songs from Three Imaginary Boys, but replacing five of that album's tracks ("Foxy Lady", "Meathook", "So What", "It's Not You" and the uncredited instrumental "The Weedy Burton") with "Jumping Someone Else's Train", "Boys Don't Cry", "Plastic Passion", "Killing an Arab" and "World War". The debut single from this album was "Boys Don't Cry".

On the back cover of original UK album Three Imaginary Boys, the song titles were not listed conventionally, but represented by pictograms. Boys Don't Cry took the pictogram for the song "Fire in Cairo" for its sleeve picture.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 442 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

Original album

All songs written and composed by The Cure. 

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Boys Don't Cry"	2:37
2.	"Plastic Passion"	2:15
3.	"10:15 Saturday Night"	3:40
4.	"Accuracy"	2:16
5.	"Object"	3:03
6.	"Jumping Someone Else's Train"	2:58
7.	"Subway Song"	1:54

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Killing an Arab"	2:22
2.	"Fire in Cairo"	3:21
3.	"Another Day"	3:43
4.	"Grinding Halt"	2:49
5.	"World War"	2:36
6.	"Three Imaginary Boys"	3:14

CD versions

On the CD version of the album, "Object" was replaced by "So What", the scream at the end of "Subway Song" was shortened, and "World War" was removed.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Boys Don't Cry"	2:35
2.	"Plastic Passion"	2:14
3.	"10:15 Saturday Night"	3:38
4.	"Accuracy"	2:16
5.	"So What?"	2:35
6.	"Jumping Someone Else's Train"	2:56
7.	"Subway Song"	1:55
8.	"Killing an Arab"	2:22
9.	"Fire in Cairo"	3:21
10.	"Another Day"	3:43
11.	"Grinding Halt"	2:49
12.	"Three Imaginary Boys"	3:14

The original Fiction/Polygram CD edition made in West Germany (#815 011-2) features 13 tracks. It matches the content and sequence of the original US vinyl release. It includes "Object" and "World War" and deletes "So What". The scream at the end of "Subway Song" is complete, but the intro to "10:15 Saturday Night" is clipped.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Boys Don't Cry"	2:35
2.	"Plastic Passion"	2:14
3.	"10:15 Saturday Night"	3:38
4.	"Accuracy"	2:16
5.	"Object"	3:01
6.	"Jumping Someone Else's Train"	2:56
7.	"Subway Song"	1:59
8.	"Killing an Arab"	2:22
9.	"Fire in Cairo"	3:21
10.	"Another Day"	3:43
11.	"Grinding Halt"	2:49
12.	"World War"	2:36
13.	"Three Imaginary Boys"	3:14

Band

• Michael Dempsey – bass, vocals
• Robert Smith – guitar, vocals
• Lol Tolhurst – drums