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A vinyl copy of The Cure LP Boys Don't Cry. 
1983 Fiction Records – SPELP 26 
Sleeve is in fine solid condition, with minor age wear and a sticker removal mark. VG
Vinyl is clean and look to have very little play. EX 
A visual grade is given, if there are any marks I will mention and play through. If the vinyl does not play well on your player I will take back, no problems. 
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 skilfully around rock's machismo and self-indulgence, even when Smith launches into the occasional gnarled solo 
  Tracklist - 
A1, , Boys Don't Cry, 2:50 
A2, , Plastic Passion, 2:49 
A3, , 10:15 Saturday Night, 2:40 
A4, , Accuracy, 2:15 
A5, , Object, 2:58 
A6, , Jumping Someone Else's Train, 2:57 
A7, , Subway Song, 1:57 
B1, , Killing An Arab, 2:30 
B2, , Fire In Cairo, 3:20 
B3, , Another Day, 3:42 
B4, , Grinding Halt, 2:49 
B5, , World War, 2:30 
B6, , Three Imaginary Boys, 3:12