1979 - ? (UK)
Build them up and then...
Single Review - Boys Don't Cry

Build them up and then...
The Cure: 'Boys Don't Cry' (Fiction FICS 662)
Hum... something of a disappointment. On stage "Boys" is invariably on of the highest points but, somehow, in it's translation onto the vinyl, the good's virtually gone. The agile interplay between the trio, and the reverberating clipped economy that producer Chris Parry spotlighted so expertly on the debut album, have unaccountably been edged out in favour of a muddy mix and an old fashioned-hierarchy of instruments. It just sounds so ORDINARY now. The flip "Plastic Passion", doesn't redeem the situation either. A feeling of disappointment makes a slim song sound threadbare. Such a shame.