The Cucumbers (EP)

The Cucumbers
The Cucumbers
EP by The Cucumbers
Released	1983
Genre	Power pop, new wave
Length	10:35
Label	Fake Doom Records
Producer	Dave Young
The Cucumbers chronology

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]

Track listing

Susie's Getting Married
Go Ahead and Do It
My Boyfriend
Snap Out of It

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Robert Christgau	(A-)^[3]
Tom Hull – on the Web	A−^[4]

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

References

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

[1] Discogs: Cucumbers EP

[2] Cucumbers Bio

[RC-3] "Robert Christgau: CG: Cucumbers".

[4] Hull, Tom (May 10, 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved May 13, 2021.

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