The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix / Remastered) (2026) [Official Digital Download]

‘Boys Don’t Cry’, one of The Cure’s signature tracks, is being reissued on CD and vinyl to mark the fact that it’s become the band’s first song to chalk up over a billion streams on Spotify. Initially released as a standalone single in the summer of 1979, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ became the title track of the US edition of the band’s debut album, Three Imaginary Boys and then a remix, with a new vocal from Robert Smith (subtitled, logically enough, ‘New Voice – New Mix’) was issued in 1986 to promote the ‘best of’ collection Staring At The Sea – The Singles.
Bizarrely, Staring at the Sea didn’t use the new version (go figure…), but instead featured the original ’79 cut of the song, meaning that the 1986 version of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ is extremely rare on CD and hasn’t been issued digitally (all those streams are for the old version).
Now re-badged ‘Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix)’ the version released in 1986 is being issued on CD single, 12-inch vinyl and seven-inch vinyl alongside 12-inch mixes and original B-sides (‘Pillbox Tales’ and ‘Do The Hansa’). All audio is remastered by Matt Colton.
The CD single is released on 30 January while the 12-inch and seven-inch won’t appear until 21 April 2026 (both via Fiction).

Tracklist
01 Boys Don't Cry (86 Mix _ 2026 Remaster)
02 Plastic Passion (79 Mix _ 2026 Remaster)
03 Pillbox Tales (86 Mix _ 2026 Remaster)
04 Do The Hansa (86 Mix _ 2026 Remaster)
05 Boys Don't Cry (86 12_ Mix _ 2026 Remaster)