THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

 

 

 

TRACKLIST:

 

10.15 Saturday Night (3:42)

Accuracy (2:18)

Grinding Halt (2:50)

Another Day (3:42)

Object (3:00)

Subway Song (1:59)

Foxy Lady (2:29)

Meathook (2:18)

So What? (2:35)

Fire In Cairo (3:21)

It’s Not You (2:52)

Three Imaginary Boys (3:13)

The Weedy Burton (1:07) [ghost track]

 

Total Running Time: 35:39

 

The 2004 Deluxe Edition features a bonus 2nd disc called "RARITIES 1977-1979":

 

I Want To Be Old (sav studio demo 10/77 - previously unreleased song) (@) (2:35)

I'm Cold (sav studio demo 11/77 - previously unreleased version) (@) (3:20)

Heroin Face (live in the rocket, crawley 12/77 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) (@) (2:40)

I Just Need Myself (psl studio demo 1/78 - previously unreleased song) (@) (2:14)

10:15 Saturday Night (rs home demo 2/78 - previously unreleased version) (4:36)

The Cocktail Party (group home demo 3/78 - previously unreleased song) (@) (4:17)

Grinding Halt (group home demo 4/78 - previously unreleased version) (@) (3:31)

Boys Don't Cry (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) (2:45)

It's Not You (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) (3:16)

10:15 Saturday Night (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) (3:41)

Fire In Cairo (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) (3:42)

Winter ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) (3:47)

Faded Smiles (aka I Don't Know) ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) (2:16)

Play With Me ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) (3:30)

World War (on early copies of 'boys don't cry' album 1979) (2:38)

Boys Don't Cry (single - also on 'boys don't cry' album 1979) (2:37)

Jumping Someone Else's Train (single - also on 'boys don't cry' album 1979) (2:59)

Subway Song (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) (2:28)

Accuracy (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously unreleased version) (2:35)

10:15 Saturday Night (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously unreleased version) (4:38)

(Total Running Time: 64:14)

 

(@) porl thompson - lead guitar & b/v's

 

Lyrics

 

Release Date:

LP: May 1979 (Europe & Oceania) - 1988 (Argentina)

tape: May 1979 (England & France) - 1982 (Oceania) - 1988 (Argentina) - 1992 (Mexico)

CD: June 1990 (France, Germany, North America, Oceania) - December 1990 (Japan) - 1992 (Mexico)

2 CD Deluxe Edition: November 2004 (Europe) - December 2004 (North America) - February 2005

(Japan)

2 CD Deluxe Edition digital download: December 2004 (Europe, North America)

 

Robert Smith: guitar, vocals

Lol Tolhurst: drums

Michael Dempsey: bass, vocals

 

All songs written by Smith/Dempsey/Tolhurst

Except FOXY LADY written by Jimi Hendrix

 

Produced by Chris Parry

Assisted by Mike Dutton

Engineered by Mike Hedges

Recorded and mixed at Morgan (Studio 4), London, England

 

Design: Bill Smith

Photography: Martyn Goddard, B. Smith

Ilustration: Connie Jude, David Dragon, B. Smith

 

DELUXE EDITION: Compiled and produced by Robert Smith

Digitally remastered by Chris Blair at Abbey Road Studios. London

Project co-ordination by Joe Black for Universal, Daryl Bamonte for The Cure assisted by Daron Butler

Sleevenotes by Johnny Black

 

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concert -- the head on the door -- standing on a beach -- kiss me kiss me kiss me -- disintegration -- mixed up

entreat -- wish -- show -- paris -- wild mood swings -- galore -- bloodflowers -- greatest hits -- join the dots -- the cure -- 4:13 dream