Oingo Boingo have shortened their name to the more direct "Boingo," but their music hasn't changed. Even it longer sounds quite as fresh, it remains the warped,...
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A gothic, experimental band that utilized a simple blend of R&B and new wave, Oingo Boingo was quite an innovative force in the eight or so years covered on Best O' Boingo....
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Not quite a greatest-hits album and not quite a live album, Oingo Boingo celebrates not quite a decade of existence with the peculiar double album Boingo Alive. Elfman and...
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Danny Elfman, lead singer of Oingo Boingo, knows how to make great music. With his penetrating charisma he can pull many a song through in his own wacky direction and style,...
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Some five years after their first EP, Oingo Boingo manage to go national with some of their better music; much of the attention is due to "Weird Science" appearing in the...
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Returning after a two-year recording hiatus (during which bandleader Danny Elfman recorded a solo album), Oingo Boingo forsook the excesses of smart-aleck humor and quirky...
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Once again, more okay New Wave stuff ("Who Do You Want To Be") with average to below average tunes. While "Nothing Bad Ever Happens" is a pleasing mellow number, "Wake Up...
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Not as highly regarded as Only a Lad or Dead Man's Party, Good for Your Soul may have been underrated in the Boingo canon. While there are moments where Elfman and company...
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Close to falling into the gray matter, Oingo Boingo managed to pull if off with the herky-jerky, quirky "Grey Matter," but at almost six minutes, it gets to be too much...
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Though Nothing to Fear is by no means Oingo Boingo's best album, it is certainly not as bad as many near-sighted critics have asserted. Elfman's songwriting, even when he's...
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A party favorite in the early '80s in Los Angeles, the simple, bopping "Only A Lad" is by far the best song on the record (and one of the best of their career); "On The...
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Only a Lad introduced the world to a man who would later become one of its most recognizable popular composers. Danny Elfman, later to write the score for The Simpsons as...
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Even for a career spanning over a decade, three Oingo Boingo greatest-hits albums seem a little far-fetched. Each one contains a good sample of some of their best songs,...
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The final, farewell performance of Oingo Boingo was captured at From the Universal Ampitheatre on Halloween 1995. A two-volume VHS recording accompanies the two-CD set....
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Oingo Boingo's two-disc Anthology collects some of the finest examples of their eclectic sound, including "Weird Science" and the Halloween anthem "Dead Man's Party." Tracks...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo gathers 11 of Danny Elfman's quirky new wave group's definitive tracks, including "Weird Science,"...
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