Oingo Boingo
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Los Angeles, California, USA (1978 – 1995)
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.
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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olivegreen85 Oh, and: "I can't see my life without Oingo Boingo" [3]. ... Or, rather ... well, I CAN, because it wasn't all that long ago, really. And it was nothing worth looking at. Just SURVIVING it meant I ended up doing things I promised myself I'd never discuss. ... Hell, this life STILL ain't worth living (or looking at, or mentioning) — but at least NOW, I have something that makes me think it COULD be, someday, if I work really, REALLY hard: Hope. They gave me the hope that I might someday be something worth existing, as opposed to a useless slab of meat stuffed with pain and regret and disappointment. (Dammit, I wanted this to be all poignant and heartfelt and shit, but I don't know how to explain it better than that. Maybe it's too late and I'm too cranky for that. So I guess I just sorta ended up spewing words in some kinda order, and hoping they might find some meaning along the way to whereever they end up. Dammit, I need caffeine. Coherence is just a sweet memory at this point.)
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Oh, goody. I'm not too late. I did SO want to be here for the big cookie — er, I mean, to be the first one to say this: Happy Birthday, Mr E.! (... Erm, in my timezone, at least: It's almost one in the morning on the 29th here.)
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CJ155 Only A Lad <3
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mydesperateicon I can't see my life without Oingo Boingo [2]
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pureevilmatt Reunion tour please and thank you.
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nastyblood I always hate finding out about bands long after they have broken up. I would love to see these fucks in concert dammit! [2]
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LunarLight I can't see my life without Oingo Boingo
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erickamil Just Another Day ♥
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