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Oingo Boingo
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Los Angeles, California, USA (1980 – 1995)
Richard Elfman founded the theatrical troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. In 1978 the remnants of the Mystic Knights formed together under lead singer Danny Elfman as the band Oingo Boingo. The hyperkinetic ska-flavored New Wave band is characterized by their manic live performances and eclectic range of songs; Elfman and the band performed for a remarkable twenty years.
The band from Los Angeles, California, USA, a pared-down version of the theatrical troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, released eight major albums and two live compilations, each containing songs that varied from fast-paced ska to soulful jazz to emotional rock to off-kilter pop. Their style can best be defined as “undefinable.”
Starting in 1980, Oingo Boingo spent their first three albums establishing themselves as a band with quirky, bizarre, sarcastic, and anti-conformist vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation, among other things lambasting “normal” society and politics for their many hypocrisies and encouraging people to think for themselves. The band made a change toward a different sound when frontman Danny Elfman recorded So-lo in collaboration with the band and a new label, beginning a trio of “new wave”-ish albums containing ballads and songs about life and mortality, including the famous Dead Man’s Party.
The band from Los Angeles, California, USA, a pared-down version of the theatrical troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, released eight major albums and two live compilations, each containing songs that varied from fast-paced ska to soulful jazz to emotional rock to off-kilter pop. Their style can best be defined as “undefinable.”
Starting in 1980, Oingo Boingo spent their first three albums establishing themselves as a band with quirky, bizarre, sarcastic, and anti-conformist vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation, among other things lambasting “normal” society and politics for their many hypocrisies and encouraging people to think for themselves. The band made a change toward a different sound when frontman Danny Elfman recorded So-lo in collaboration with the band and a new label, beginning a trio of “new wave”-ish albums containing ballads and songs about life and mortality, including the famous Dead Man’s Party.
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Only A Lad
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Best O' Boingo
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Only A Lad
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Just Another Day
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No One Lives Forever
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Wild Sex (In the Working Class)
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On the Outside
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Who Do You Want To Be
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Not My Slave
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Private Life
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Nasty Habits
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Shoutbox
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beancos wrote:
stay ♥
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TheMongKey wrote:
So, who all was at the Johnny 'Vatos' Hernandez Tribute to <s>Halloween</s> Oingo Boingo (they really need to come up with a snappier name for that) at the Grove of Anaheim last month? Wasn't it awesome?
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Kinga_Vicious wrote:
Genius band.
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Kinga_Vicious wrote:
If you search for deeper meaning in Boingo songs, you'll find it. If you don't... they're just fun. That's the genius of it. <3 [2]
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ohh1972 wrote:
If you search for deeper meaning in Boingo songs, you'll find it. If you don't... they're just fun. That's the genius of it. <3
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K-Willa wrote:
it's stuck in my head since halloween
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Kinga_Vicious wrote:
I love little girls :D xD [2] They make feel so baaad XD
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CataHairCombs wrote:
Danny & Co, a salute to the voices that murmered me to sleep and who gave me the glasses through which the world looked like it held a promise of humour and sweet melan collie
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feefafo wrote:
@Tender-L: Oh, wow. I never thought about it like that. Eeh - I hope I can get the DVD from my parents for Christmas! They REALLY need to rerelease it.
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Ackibear wrote:
@beenyisagreeny: I had no idea either until I actually gave this band a try. I was surprised when I found out.
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Tender-L wrote:
It's been 14 years since the band's farewell gig. But well, Boingo hasn't been forgotten yet, Boingo 4ever!
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beenyisagreeny wrote:
a lot of people I talk to have no idea Danny Elfman was in this band.
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kledonne wrote:
My first show was Oingo Boingo in Chicago Nov. 1988. I was smitten. And very, very sweaty.
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prophetpope wrote:
Oingo Boingo is awesome, they should have loads of plays ,really. Danny Elfman is shitfamous, makes me wonder why this band isn't.
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feefafo wrote:
@alexia - it's an outrage, is what it is! OB NEEDS MORE PLAYS!
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jujuki wrote:
Trop fort !!
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alexia_N wrote:
Only 2 million plays? and here i am, going on this page expecting them to at least have more plays than Devo. wow. LOVE this band btw
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irka_rump wrote:
ух... Чудеса науки!)
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Dr_Perky wrote:
Danny Elfman is probably the greatest modern composer because he doesn't adhere to standards or fall into repetition you can listen to any of his musical scores for films and here that they rarely sound similar.
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german_in_la wrote:
Ahhhhhh, nostalgia. Shoutout to Dave Mehl in R.C. :D
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