The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

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 catalogue. 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.

Tracklist:

A1 10:15 Saturday Night
A2 Accuracy
A3 Grinding Halt
A4 Another Day
A5 Object
A6 Subway Song
B1 Foxy Lady
B2 Meathook
B3 So What?
B4 Fire In Cairo
B5 It's Not You
B6 Three Imaginary Boys
B7 The Weedy Burton