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Boys Don't Cry - Boys Don't Cry

Maybe it wasn't the biggest hit in 1986, but dagnabbit it sure did seem to be on the radio all the dang time. "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" may have been viewed as nothing more than a clever one trick pony in terms novelty songs in the "Weird" Al era of parody songs, but there was something infectious about the song that put it up there with some of the best '80s poprock ... ever. Yeah, you may think I'm just spewing a heaping pile of cow droppings but I do mean it. I will even admit that when it came out I wanted to treat the song with disdain and dismiss it as the pile of shit it was - except it wasn't. More on that later as a good friend of mine likes to say. Boys Don't Cry hail from London, England (it may seem obvious, but there are others you know. Like the one in Ontario). The band was the brainchild of vocalist / keyboard player Nick Richards and featured his bandmates Brian Chatton on keyboards, Jeff Seopardi on drums, Mark Smith on bass, and N...