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- Length
- 10 tracks, 39:22
- Release Date
- 19 June 1981
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- Length
- 10 tracks, 39:22
- Release Date
- 19 June 1981
Only a Lad is the debut studio album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1981 by A&M Records, following their self-titled EP. The album's musical arrangements, by vocalist Danny Elfman and guitarist Steve Bartek, completed the group's evolution into a new wave rock band. Only a Lad features complex and frequently changing time signatures and keys, often incorporating harmonies borrowed from jazz and 20th-century classical music. Lyrics Elfman claimed that many of the songs were inspired by newspaper articles he had read at the time and were "writte… read more
Only a Lad is the debut studio album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1981 by A&M Records, following their self-titled EP. The… read more
Only a Lad is the debut studio album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1981 by A&M Records, following their self-titled EP. The album's musical arrangements, b… read more
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