The Cure - I'm Cold (1977)

Happy birthday Matt! The Big five zero. 

I was thinking about all the wild stuff we listened to in those late teenage / early 20s years. I could easily compile an hour plus mix of music we shared and maybe I'll do that, but for now I'm going with an early Cure demo. No synths here. Lots of shredding (courtesy of lead guitarist Porl Thompson) and resembles something like MC5 but still comes through with a sound that would fit on the worn out cassette copy of Boys Don't Cry that was in constant rotation. I hadn't heard this one until a couple years ago on the Three Imaginary Boys deluxe edition. Check it out and party onward.

And for everybody else, check it out too. It's a damn fine tune.