The Cure fumbled into a punk pigeonhole with the jagged jangle of this paranoid pop. 'Three Imaginary Boys' was recorded at Morgan Studios in London with producer Chris Parry, who had discovered the band and signed them to his Fiction subsidiary of Polydor Records. The sessions featured Robert Smith on lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Michael Dempsey on bass guitar, background vocals, and lead vocals on "Foxy Lady"; and Lol Tolhurst on drums.
Smith reveals: "I was still at school and we got a contract with Hansa Records. We answered this ad for a talent competition and we won, out of about 1100 groups, when I was just 16. They signed us to a contract, but we never released anything. We went into the studio a few times; but we just used it for our own advantage, to get used to things. We never had any intention of releasing a record, because we were all still studying. they said if something happens, you've got to be prepared to leave school. And I thought, leave school, that's a stupid idea...We played local community halls for free, then we started charging 50 pence. We started playing pubs, we'd lie about our age. We'd get paid in drinks at first...it just escalated. Because no one else in Crawley was doing what we were doing. They still aren't. This was 1977-78/ We never played in London before we signed to Fiction in 1978...We never really played punk songs. We were always playing songs like 'Boys Don't Cry', we were sort of playing pop. Just we were playing it badly. So we were labelled a punk group. A bit like the Buzzcocks were doing. We sounded quite like the Buzzcocks ... I remember we supported Wire very soon after their first album came out, and I was very taken with the power they had onstage. They were very stark, very minimal, though that was a very over-used word at the time. I wanted to strip everything down. 'Three Imaginary Boys' was a very basic record, but it was from a different angle. It was like taking conventional pop songs and reinterpreting them...I was very angst-ridden, very dislocated. I don't think there any sense of emotion on the first album at all. A lot of it was very superficial – I didn't even like it at the time. There were criticisms made that it was very lightweight, and I thought they were justified. Even when we'd made it, I wanted to do something that I thought had more substance to it ... When we did 'Three Imaginary Boys' it was spiky, it wasn’t really me. I remember bending Lol’s ear to be a bit more like XTC. I played with the Banshees [after their guitarist John McGeoch suddenly left] through our first tour, and it allowed me to think beyond what we were doing. I wanted to have a band that does what Steve Severin and Budgie do, where they just get a bassline and the drum part and Siouxsie wails."
http://www.thecure.com/
'Killing An Arab' was released as a single before the album was completed. It never charted; but it became a lightning rod for the band with the controversial titular refrain. It was inspired by 'L'Étranger' (The Stranger) by Albert Camus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdfwf_the-cure-killing-an-arab_music
The cure - killing an arab by twnax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lULaE6kv4
'Boys Don't Cry' hit ninety-nine in Australia and twenty two in New Zealand.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sigx_the-cure-boys-don-t-cry-1979-1986_music
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1979 & 1986 ) by LostPirate77
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryImbOTDXe8
'Jumping Someone Else's Train' never made it to the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oWf07FRCw
'Three Imaginary Boys'
full album:
All tracks written by The Cure (Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst), except as noted.
1. 10:15 Saturday Night - 00:00
2. Accuracy - 03:42
3. Grinding Halt - 05:59
4. Another Day - 08:49
5. Object - 12:33
6. Subway Song - 15:37
7. Foxy Lady - 17:37 (Jimi Hendrix)
8. Meathook - 20:07
9. So What - 22:25
10. Fire In Cairo - 25:04
11. It's Not You - 28:28
12. Three Imaginary Boys - 31:21
13. The Weedy Burton - 34:53
14. Killing An Arab (bonus track) - 35:47
'Boys Don't Cry'
full album:
All tracks written by The Cure (Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst).
Side A
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
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
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