Oingo Boingo! C or D ??

that's a siqq scene in TCM2

btw the original members - sans Danny - still play as the Oingo Boingo Dance Party. Vatos, Bartek, Avila, Sluggo and Carl Graves. I'm opening up for them on May 12th at The Whiskey!

i reviewed this whole lot of hurt so-cal/proprietary feels above, but my view as a non-cali-for-lifer is: regardless my thoughts on its reactionary and sexist and problematic lyrics, "only a lad" by oingo boingo in 1980 is likely the second coolest thing outta LA that year after john and exene.

this was a weird bummer to me after i listened to it again for the first time since 1984, but not after i read this thread.

aging will troll you lol.

there is some top-quality hate in this thread!
Neither classic nor dud, but having a greatest hits is fun, and Bartek is one of the more interesting new wave guitarists.

Feel a lil bad about going ham on chaki 15 yrs ago tbh.

best fucking band of all time a million times better than X cmon fucking fight me

https://img.discogs.com/irsxiVoZ3DCDonc17y43tOl9qiY=/600x498/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-79459-1499501611-3055.png.jpg

I'll try in near future, what's a good starter? I was going to go for the "Insanity" album but maybe best go there later?

They're stellar from 81-85, after that pretty bad. I'd try "Nothing To Fear" or "Nothing To Fear" first.

choices choices

Haha, I meant or "Good For Your Soul".

"We Close Our Eyes" from 1987 is classic, tho.

yah start with Good For Your Soul every song is a banger

I love the later stuff too of course Dark At The End is one of my fav things every recorded up and is in the same space in my brain as The The's Mind Bomb but that's for superfans I kno

chaki otm. I hadn't really listened to Oingo Boingo before now (I know the song 'weird science' maybe only from a remake series on USA or something when I was young). I enjoyed Danny Elfman on Maron. Also had some friends staying with us for around a month, and one of them kept singing "This. is. hallo-ween." over and over to my sons. This somehow compelled me to listen. The influences listed itt are obviously there (first album is Devo+), but I'm blown away by how much I enjoy the abovementioned high points. Everything seems to be listenable. I live in southern california btw.

Shaky posts up top as wrong as the time it was suggested we shouldn't watch Coco because Book of Life already existed. Some kind of post-Ghost World Blues Hammer sensitivity that occasionally fools many of us into projecting Blues Hammer onto an otherwise good time.

Speaking of which, Danny Elfman has his first vocal album out in 25 years - and it sounds like he's fronting 90s Nine Inch Nails! I quite like the two singles, "Happy" and "Sorry", but an entire album of that vibe is tiresome. Good to hear his voice again, though!

interesting. seems I've chosen a good time to dive in.

my fav band since ive been 4 years old. the rest of the band, sans Danny, still perform together (a bunch of shows coming up in Oct) and I go see them as much as possible because im an insane person

btw re: the weird race stuff up thread there - are 2 mexicans and one black guy in boingo. carl graves. he was in a band with david foster before boingo!

ooo that Halloween night show is close and particularly tempting. probably need to be out trick-or-treating, though.

the oct 8th show is at the mall across the st from magic mountain. can you imagine anything more 80s?

btw this youtube account is so sick... sooo many amazing unreleased tracks. this version of controller goes HARD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4CJ5WwEtZ0

going hard really works for that track

Reissues of the first 4 albums coming out from Rubellan Remasters. CDs will all have bonus tracks, though he couldn't get clearance for previously unreleased demos and whatnot.

Bonus tracks are good. I gave the new elfman album a first try, but it doesn't have the same energy. Will try again but think I get a lot out of the guitars in OB. I switched to a live 1985 show at The Ritz NY on youtube that was amazing.

Speaking of which, Danny Elfman has his first vocal album out in 25 years - and it sounds like he's fronting 90s Nine Inch Nails! I quite like the two singles, "Happy" and "Sorry", but an entire album of that vibe is tiresome. Good to hear his voice again, though!

I'm very much in favor of the idea of an 18-track album of such big, extreme music that doesn't really stray from one specific mood, and I do like quite a few of the individual songs, but mostly I think "Happy" towers way above the rest of them. Just really love "Happy." It sounds like evil Sparks!

'No One Lives Forever' sounds a bit like Jack Skellington interpreting 'Never Say Never' for Halloween Town. It is good.