Boys Don't Cry
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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 skillfull
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075596078627 UPC: 075596078627
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075596078627 UPC: 075596078627
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