The Cure
Three Imaginary Boys LP

Before they honed their patented blend of dark melodies and gothic textures, The Cure made catchy, if angular, pop-punk. Three Imaginary Boys, the band's 1979 debut album. Maybe it was youthful exuberance or perhaps it was the fact that the band itself was not pulling all the strings, Three Imaginary Boys is not only a very strong debut, but a near oddity (it's an admittedly "catchy" record) in The Cure cataloue. More poppy and representative of the times it was made that any other album during their long career, this is a semi-detached bit of late-'70s English pop-punk.

New / Released in 1979 / Reissue 2016

Tracklist:

A1 10:15 Saturday Night

A2 Accuracy

A3 Grinding Halt

A4 Another Day

A5 Object

A6 Subway Song

B1 Foxy Lady

B2 Meat Hook

B3 So What

B4 Fire In Cairo

B5 It's Not You

B6 Three Imaginary Boys