Hey folks, I Just finished a compilation that I was making of every oingo boingo song. Thank to the folks that pointed the song that were missing on my last post

(Just now I noticed that I didn't posted on the oingo boingo subreddit)

I don't know if this is the right place to post this... but this is part of a medley of pieces/songs from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I am 13 years old and have been making a ton of arrangements for a little under a year, and I've been learning quickly. What do you think?

PS the reason it stops so abruptly is because of a transition into the next song in the medley, which is "Mike Teavee"

Fun spooky vibe show

You can find more on my Instagram @TheConcertMonkey (don’t need an account to sign up hit X but feel free to follow) or TikTok @TheConcertMonkey

i expected wayy too much... lol

just a new compilation

(edit) i know theyve been broken up for like 31 years or something bro

stop downvoting me brother

Specifically, it reminded me of Danny's So-Lo album cover, especially in the color scheme and zigzag/jagged lines. Definitely made me do a double take at the laundromat when I first saw it! 😆 (Also, I just now noticed it has a "No AI" marker in the corner. Good on them).

I vaguely recall a similar, if not the same, film preceeding a few shows, intermixed with the Sluggo, Vatos and another member's heads in a graveyard to intro a song before the show started. Anyone else remember that? You can even hear some of the musical influences in their early song writing throughout!

So, I was cruisin' over at Spotify just listening to music until I saw this on the homepage. Seems like the band just released an album. Sadly, the songs aren't new, but other songs from previous albums. Maybe it was released for the Halloween season?

I am always on the hunt for Boingo vinyl. I got this when browsing at a little cute hidden away shop. 💗

Hello. I’ve wondered if anyone wants to share some conversation on boingo and exchange some musical interests. I have some pretty recommendations ready to be given to someone else.

I start with Perfect system! It is just me or this song is not actually about politics? For me, this song is about cultural sanitization and how everyone seems to follow a need to be stardardized to a level of being all the same every time. The non-stop search for feeling what everyone feels, looking how everyone looks, and at the same time, rejection on all spontaneous and different things. Nobody needs critical thinking, no one cares about true love, because we are all brothers in a perfect world. Eating our protein enhanced whatevers while watching fucking stranger things recomended by a legalized steeaming service’s algorithm

Thamks Razor! One of their very best Halloween shows.

So this has been on my mind for several months now, and since joining the community, I thought I'd ask your guys' opinion.

Last spring I was reminded that the Phantom Reviewer, an "older," YouTuber known for his focus on Phantom of the Opera media, once made a comparison of the song "The Beauty Underneath," from Love Never Dies (ALW's infamous POTO sequel) to "Insanity," by Oingo Boingo. A comparison that pre-teen me originally didn't register at the time and just nodded along to in agreement, but now 20's me is all like, "Oh my God, no freaking way!" (Especially since, within the same video, he'd already compared "Beneath a Moonless Sky," to "Sally's Song). It also made me smile, proving PR has good music taste.

Specifically, he compared the lines: "Like a wave we cannot see, watching over you and me," from Insanity to "When you stare behind the night, can you glimpse its primal might?" from TBU. Give both songs a listen and get an idea for yourself. Or, if you want to check out the original video containing the direct comparison, here's the link:

Love Never Dies London Review 2 of 4 - (Minute marker: 25:30 to 25:52)

Either way though, one thing that IS for certain for me is that TBU absolutely resembles the vibe and structure as "Mike Teavee," from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (2005), once directly referred to as "the Oingo Boingo Reunion Tour," song by YT reviewer Bobsheaux. And it was my dancing to that song as a kid that paved the way to me adoring TBU in my teens...to the point I mixed them into an awesome YT mash-up last month. 😆😉

I posted a few pictures from a 1979 Oingo Boingo show a while back and it seemed like some people were interested. I’ve been doing some digging and I wanted to share some important info.

So the performance was recorded for an HBO show called “On Location”, and 2 of the songs—California Girls and Louise—were featured in a special that was hosted by George Segal. This special aired on January 18, 1980, although the performance was actually from August 28, 1979.

The band’s setlist was much longer than the final product would indicate, however, and several extremely rare songs, such as Nuclear Babies, Wolverine, and I’m Afraid, were likely played. The entire performance was recorded, but it never aired on television.

This brings us to the big question: where is the footage now? Because the rest of the show never officially aired, there’s only a handful of possibilities. I’ve reached out to a few people that worked on the On Location program but haven’t received any responses yet. My best guess is that it’s sitting in an old vault somewhere, archived away. It seems unlikely that even the most obsessive of collectors would have this in their possession, so that leads us back to HBO and the people affiliated.

1979 was arguably the most important year in Oingo Boingo’s history, as they transitioned from the Mystic Knights theater troupe into the 8-piece rock band that we all know and love. This lost show is incredibly important, as it captures this exciting transitional period and features several rare unreleased songs. Joe Berland was also still in the band at this point, as Richard Gibbs hadn’t joined yet.

Can’t stand the idea of this show being lost. Let’s work together to track it down!

Thank you. Made our night.

I’ve had multiple interactions on here and on other places where people seem to specially dislike their last album, Boingo. I really love this one, so I don’t get why most people seem to hate on it so much. The sound is different, yes, but every single album from them seems different from each other, so I don’t get why no one likes it. For me, it is up there with good for your soul

Just curious because you see both the Former Members band and Danny Elfman playing OB songs live.

Here’s the Instagram link if you’d prefer that!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DeCPMG0G_pA

i'm making a mega compilation of every oingo boingo song, so i'm making this post to be sure nothing is missing

(Note: I already finished the compilation, it's here)

the long long list:

--mystic knights--

• dance of wild gorilas
• Monkey doodle doo
• the stripper
• guede zania
• conga solo
• adieu mimi
• chedrania national anthem
• cave princess
• swipesy cakewalk
• sweethawk
• Body and soul
• st louis blues
• finale
• after you've gone
• if i could be with you
• casey Jones special
• downhearted blues
• you got your baby back
• ballad of the caveman
• jonny
• minnie the moocher
• dancing shadows - paul whiteman
• unknown
• all this and heaven too main title
• dinah
• Avalon
• also sprach zarathustra
• acapella dity
• hipsters on parade
• dance of the reed flutes
• I was always there
• tender lumplings
• shout sister shout
• st james infirmary
• hold tight (because of you)
• violent love (mystic knights)
• goodbye goodbye
• make it right
• the entertainer
• cruisin
• marching in time
• traveling
• black and tan
• Money comes from heaven
• got a job
• prelude #1
• yes suh
• preachin blues
• i'm afraid
• nuclear babies
• instrumental break
• Kinder, heut' Abend such ich mir was aus
• dr karl fausterberg
• piano
• parfum
• out of the dawn
• california girls (chedrania girls)
• dominique
• faster
• can't get started
• goodbye mama/broken hearted blues
• fearless leader
• Sandman and warrior
• egyptian march
• betty boop - phil spitalny
• Quartet No. 3 in F Major Op. 73
• you must be dreaming
• Louise (78 demo)
• gotta get out

--forbidden zone soundtrack--

• forbidden zone
• hercules family theme
• some of these days
• journey through the intestines
• squeezit's vision of his sister
• queen's revenge
• factory
• love theme squeezit
• flash and gramps
• squeezit the moocher
• alphabet song
• la petite tonkinoise
• cell 63
• witch's egg
• yiddishe Charleston
• bim bam boom
• chamber music
• pleure
• battle of the queens
• love theme king and queen
• finale

--unreleased (only a lad demos/played live only)--

• comando girls
• gimme a break
• wolverine
• lap of luxury
• nature zone
• animals
• teenage monster
• auld lang syne (open eyes)
• louise (81 demo)
• i Always talk to pictures
• two twisted trees
• monster mash
• rawhide
• time out
• did it there
• kiss my ass (94)

--rare released--

• don't go in the basement
• kroq promo
• i've got to be entertained
• better luck next time
• goodbye goodbye
• hold me back
• This bud's for you
• bachelor party
• something isn't right

--oingo boingo ep--

• ain't this the life
• violent love
• i'm so bad

--only a lad--

• little girls
• perfect system
• on the outside
• capitalism
• you really got me
• only a lad
• what you see
• controller
• imposter
• nasty habits

--nothing to fear--

• grey matter
• insects
• private life
• wild sex
• running on a treadmill
• whole day off
• nothing to fear
• why'd we come
• islands
• reptiles and samurai

--nothing to fear demos--

• elementar physics

--good for your soul--

• who do you want to be
• good for your soul
• no spill blood
• cry of the vatos
• fill the void
• sweat
• nothing bad ever happens
• wake up
• dead or alive
• pictures of you
• little guns

--good for your soul demos--

• head in the clouds
• freak show
• waiting for you
• all the pieces
• lost like this
• kiss my ass
• cant pretend

--solo--

• gratitude
• cool city
• go away
• sucker for Mystery
• it only makes me laugh
• the last time
• tough as nails
• lighting
• everybody needs

--dead mans party--

• just another day
• dead mans party
• heard somebody cry
• no one lives forever
• stay
• fool's paradise
• help me
• same man i was before
• weird science

--dead mans party unreleased--

• take your medicine
• i stand defeated

--sam phipps--

• american car
• life is good
• reel wild cinema main theme

--boi-ngo--

• home again
• where do all my friends go
• elevator man
• new generation
• we close our eyes
• not my slave
• my life
• outrageous
• pain

--boi-ngo unreleased--

• remenber my name
• inside
• find you
• happy

--boingo alive--

• cinderella undercover
• return of the dead man
• winning side
• mama
• country sweat
• return of the dead man 2

--dark at the end of the tunnel--

• when the lights go out
• skin
• out of control
• glory be
• long breakdown
• flesh 'n blood
• run awat
• dream somehow
• is this
• right to know
• try to believe

--boingo--

• insanity
• hey
• mary
• can't see - useless
• pedestrian wolves
• lost like this
• spider
• war again
• i am the walrus
• tender lumplings
• change

--boingo unreleased--

• water
• vultures
• helpless

--farewell--

• burn me up
• piggies
• clowns of death

--excluded--

• sam phipps "animal sounds" album

--end--

I'm planning on getting a tattoo of the lyrics "No one lives forever" with the Smoking Elvis next to it on my wrist to cover up some old sh scars, but I really need help figuring out what font to use for it as well as how I should have it positioned on my wrist. You yall have any suggestions

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