“Boys Don’t Cry”
by The Cure
from the album Boys Don’t Cry
1979
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When I was a tween/teen and getting really into most of the music we talk about on this blog, I was firmly against the Cure. I would make fun of them, I would say they sucked, etc. The truth is, which I can freely admit now and probably at least subconsciously knew then, is that I was just so against them because my best friend at the time was so into them. We’re talking dressing as Robert Smith on Halloween, etc. Never mind that we shared most of our other bands in common, The Cure is where I placed my (ridiculous) stake in the ground. It wasn’t until he and I stopped being friends that I was finally able to listen to them properly.

This song is precisely the kind of song I would have railed against back in the day (though Lovecats was always at the top of my list). Now it’s not my favorite Cure song, but it’s up there. There are certain karaoke songs that no one but my crew knows (and maybe not even them) and I don’t care because I like singing it too much, and there are songs like this where no one but my crew would know it, but I can take it or leave it either way. It’s fun to sing when I think about it, but I’m very rarely dying to do so. Now that I’m talking about it and hearing it again, it has to go in the queue for next time though.

According to Wikipedia, there is an official video from a few years after this release, but I didn’t find it on YT in my cursory search, and this video has some great old photos of the band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryImbOTDXe8