Three Imaginary Boys (5/8/1979)

On their current website The Cure lists this as their first full length album. I always love to listen to a band's first album as it is oftentimes the most untarnished representation of what they originally intended to sound like. This album is no exception. It is the most stripped down of them all containing simply drums, guitars, bass, and vocals. This album gets experimental in some areas pushing boundaries into sounds that were kept going forward while also exploring some that were abandoned (Meathook, So What, etc...)

This album serves as the foundation for Cure albums going forward feeling much like the hot sand in between your toes when you first go to the beach at first and then leading you to the track Three Imaginary Boys which sounds most familiar. Three Imaginary Boys is clearly the start of a thread that winds its way through all of their albums. Of course we will see about that as we stroll along through all of them.

The high points of the album: 10:15 on a Saturday Night, Grinding Halt, Fire in Cairo, and of course Three Imaginary Boys

Link to this album info: Three Imaginary Boys