Boys Don't Cry
by The Cure
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The Cure bestography
Boys Don't Cry is ranked 10th best out of 40 albums by The Cure on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Cure is Disintegration which is ranked number 28 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,446.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Boys Don't Cry track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Boys Don't Cry rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Kettwig | Top 32 Music Albums of 1980 | 3/32 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 | 34/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 63/100 | 37 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | emptysquares | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 17/100 | 84 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1980 | 60/100 | - |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 | 5/50 | 5 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 57 Music Albums of 1980 | 32/57 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 84 Music Albums of 1980 | 60/84 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 160 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 881 | |||
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Boys Don't Cry ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 05/28/2026 19:04 |  Leonard | 6,613 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/30/2026 22:55 |  VictorVale | 3,900 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2026 00:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,671 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Boys Don't Cry forum mentions
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lleon79 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/20/2019 17:52 | #240019
At first I didn't quite like this album (though I certainly rate it much higher than Three Imaginary Boys) as much as I love the other Cure albums. Maybe that was because I wasn't very fond of this beginner punk style, but as the years have gone by, I find myself revisiting this album a lot! Certainly they sound so young and unexperienced, but that's what gives this album its charm. So so good.
Sulky teenagers sing up-beat protest songs just before morphing into goths....
wooolf 09/27/2017 16:02 | #198825 | TOP COMMENT
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I like this album better than Three Imaginary Boys. The added tracks really do the album good. And some lesser tracks are dropped. I don't regard this as a compilation..
nitomano 12/30/2016 01:46 | #181267
Includes new songs: Boys Don't Cry, Killing An Arab, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Plastic Passion, World War
swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/05/2015 21:36 | #134065
This was the American equivalent of the British release Three Imaginary Boys.
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