The Cucumbers is the first release by the New Jersey new wave band the Cucumbers. It contains the single "My Boyfriend". It received a good deal of college radio play, enabling the band to begin playing out of town. In addition, "before the record was released, Tommy Dugan quit the band (gave no reason, just stopped returning calls…the band still wonders about that) and through the Village Voice (again) found drummer Yuergen Renner, born in Weil-am-Rhine, Germany, on the French-Swiss border, who came to New York in 1980 to play American rock. He was soon in six bands, but eventually left all but the Cukes."[2]

The Cucumbers
EP by
Released1983
GenrePower pop, new wave
Length10:35
LabelFake Doom Records
ProducerDave Young[1]
The Cucumbers chronology
The Cucumbers
(1983)
Who Betrays Me...And Other Happier Songs
(1985)

Track listing edit

  1. Susie's Getting Married
  2. Go Ahead and Do It
  3. My Boyfriend
  4. Snap Out of It

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Robert Christgau(A-)[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebA−[4]

Robert Christgau wrote that the EP's first track, "My Boyfriend", "is a girl-group masterstroke for a feminist age."[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Discogs: Cucumbers EP
  2. ^ Cucumbers Bio
  3. ^ a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Cucumbers".
  4. ^ Hull, Tom (May 10, 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved May 13, 2021.